Not Rudy Tuesday

All I can say is whoever sold Mayor
Giuliani on the Florida strategy or whether it was his own idea – good
job! Anything that keeps a culture of death Republican from being the
nominee is for me a good strategy.  I do wish though that the
reason he failed was that he was not personally opposed to abortion and
was not any kind of social conservative.  Though I think that
was part of it, but most of the Republican establishment was not all
that worried about breaking a pro-life precedence just as long as he
promised to do what they want on national security and gave assurances
about his judicial picks. The only talk show I have listened to that
was actually worried about Rudy splitting the party and ending the
Republican party as the party of life was Laura Ingraham.

As a critique of a campaign strategy and
it easy to say now – what a maroon!  It seems to me that if
you are going to run for President you need to run as president in all
fifty states because even if you don’t win the primaries at least you
will have already set up networks and contacts when it comes to the
general election.  Skipping states and concentrating on ones
later on in the primary cycle also keeps you from getting all of the
free press coverage and keeps your name out of the news. I am just glad
in Rudy’s case that he decided to put all of his eggs in one basket.

As a side issue it is also nice that we
won’t have a cafeteria Catholic being a nominee this time around.
 We won’t have the Communion wars as we did with Sen. Kerry
since reportedly the Mayor does not go to Communion because of his
current “marriage.”