Posted by
J-GOP on Monday, November 12, 2007 10:49:24 AM
A blogsite called, "The Street Conservative", has issued a 42-page white paper entitled, "Rudy Giuliani: Life Long Liberal", which details the candidates position on a number of social issues during his term a New York mayor. In their words:
"Rudy’s own words, news reports and commentary from both the left and right are utilized to prove that contrary to what we’ve been hearing and reading, Rudy Giuliani is what he has always been — a liberal. It is streetcornerconservative.com’s hope that after reviewing the subject matter in the white paper, conservatives will take stories of Giuliani’s Damascus Road-like conversion with a grain of salt."
The fact of the matter is that a number voter polls such as the recent Quinnipiac University Poll taken on Oct. 23-29, 2007, using 1,636 registered voters nationwide. (MoE ± 2.4.) shows Rudy either beating Hillary or coming to a statistical dead heat with her if the election were held today. While it's certainly early to be conducting such polls with the national election a year away, no other Republican candidate from the current field even comes close.
What this blogger hasn't factored in is that with Rudy as the Republican nominee, he will have a strong chance of taking the state of New York, and drawing more conservative and moderate Democrats (especially male voters) away from Hillary.
Remember 1980 and the Reagan Democrats? The same phenomena happened then when Democrats flocked to elect Ronald Reagan in the face of an out of control economy and the Iranian hostage crisis under Jimmy Carter. It's not out of the question that a good chunk of Democrats will do the same in 2008.
While most Repbulicans are certainly not happy with his stance on same-sex marriage and gun control, Republicans have to decide one of two strategies. To stick to your values and nominate a true 100% Conservative that will get slaughtered in the general election, or nominate someone that has an honest chance of beating Hillary Clinton.
Since I'm not in favor of a liberal leaning Supreme Court, I'll be "Rooting for Rudy", thank-you!