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Hey Buddy.

I’d rather be on here in self-imposed silence than not be able to post at all. While we’ve gone back and forth on Mayor Giuliani (back before the March/April purges) - I think the Mayor has more conservative credentials than you give him credit for. To all of us, sure, NYC is a sewer of leftism - but compare a bear in the forest to a deer in the forest, to use a slightly ham-fisted simile.

What I think underlies the polemical hatred against Mayor Giuliani is what has happened to the GOP as a whole: after the 1994 Uprising, they became the “Establishment”. Conservatism and constitutionalism has washed away from our lovely beach, and, from what I can tell, many of the most loyal soldiers are projecting their righteous anger and using the Mayor as a strawman. The Mayor hasn’t come this far, politically, by being a kneejerk liberal, and I just don’t think it’s fair, within the process, to assume he would be the nation’s Chief Exec and CIC as compromising as he was to a hegemonic NYC.

Give the process some time. And I am not a liberal, by any stretch of the imagination. I like leadership aptitudes in a President, even if such a perceived leader doesn’t agree with me on, say, abortion. By comparison, how would you feel about a former Union president (who also signed pro-’choice’ legislation) running for the GOP Nomination? You’d, rightfully, be skeptical. None of us dislike the 40th President of the United States, in retrospect.

You don’t build up by tearing down. I agree with you: we need to win Senate and Congressional seats back - and accept some imperfections. Pray, think, read, and pray again. The GOP nominee gets my vote - and, like I said, I like all of them (with serious, serious reservations about Senator McCain). Be well and have a great weekend. These are serious, soul-searching times and we really, really are on the same team.

-Jeff