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."