Frankly, and I know I’m treading on thin ice here, I might prefer a Hillary presidency to a Rudy presidency. Why? Because Hillary is at least an open liberal dem. You know where she stands and the GOP would feel no hestitancy to oppose everything she’d try to do. She’s an open enemy, easy to target. One of the problems with the Bush pseudo-conservative presidency is that the GOP Congress and rank-and-file Republicans all felt obligated to defend him on numerous crap, because not to do so would be to lend support to the dems. Same thing with Rudy. With President Giuliani as the chief standard-bearer for the GOP, it really would become set as the Liberal Party #2. And then where would we be?
You are definitely on thin ice, but if you think that conservatives didn’t have to swallow their pride to support the President you are wrong.
It’s sort of like the wife who puts up with her husbands annoying transgressions until she finds him in bed with the Mexican maid.
He signed McCain Feingold...we stayed quiet.
He passed the Medicare part D prescription drug benefit, the biggest expansion of the welfare state since the New Deal...we stayed quiet.
He decided to take out Saddam (which Al Gore and Hillary were all in favor of too), and now the only guy who can control these insane islamofascists in Iraq has been hung from the gallows...and we defended him.
He lost his veto pen somewhere in the waste basket under the overturned coffee grinds while Congress increased Federal spending by twice the rate under Bill Clinton...we stayed quiet.
We loved him and we are loyal.
But check out the immigration threads.
We just found him in bed with Consuela the hot Mexican housekeeper. That was it. Enough is enough. The divorce papers will be served.