Really? Tell that to George Allen, Trent Lott, Pat Buchanan and the many others who have had their "macaca moments". In the case of Giuliani, if you throw all of your conservative principles away to promote and support a damned liberal, you're going to wear the stain pretty much forever.
Since when has supporting different candidates in a Republican primary been tantamount to enemy fire?
Since the frontrunning candidate is barely a Republican, opposing the majority of the Party Platform. And since he's the most liberal GOP presidential candidate in the history of the known universe. The battle lines are drawn between conservative and liberal - not Republican and Democrat. This is a conservative site and we fight for conservatives and against liberals NO MATTER WHAT PARTY DESIGNATION THEY LIKE TO USE.
Sigh, the trouble is that we cannot agree on what is liberal and what is conservative. What I do know is that honesty is a conservative value, and as such, I will not lie to you, Jim or anyone else and pretend that I'm supporting a candidate that I don't support just to remain in good standing on FR. I'm supporting Rudy, I have been for quite some time, and I intend on continuing in that endeavor. If that is enough to now get me banned from FR, so be it.
To thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day, that thou cans't not be false to any man. --Shakespeare.