…if by “love,” you mean “fiscal conservatism”:
Rudy Giuliani insisted yesterday he can unite the Republican Party as its standard-bearer for president, brushing aside threats from Christian right activists to run an independent candidate if the ex-mayor wins the nomination.
“I’m working on one party right now – the Republican Party,” Giuliani said during a stop at Dino’s Diner in Seaville, N.J.
“I believe we are reaching out very, very well to Republicans. The emphasis is on fiscal conservatism, which brings Republicans together.“
The problem for Giuliani is that this simply isn’t true. Rudy says “fiscal conservatism” but his own campaign has embraced voodoo economics straight up. There may be a consensus in favor of supply-side tomfoolery among GOP elites, but such consensus just doesn’t exist among Republican voters in general. There isn’t even a consensus on traditional fiscal conservatism. Rudy’s hoping to paper over the emerging crisis within the conservative coalition, but he’s only encouraging the rot.
Oh, and now the Wall Street Journal says the Republicans are losing their grip on the fiscal conservative brand anyway. Whoops.
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[...] Curtis at the The Right’s Field, which monitors the Republican candidates from the left, thinks the G.O.P. frontrunner isn’t helping matters: “Rudy says ‘fiscal conservatism’ but his own campaign has embraced voodoo economics straight [...]
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Don’t you mean “Love Will Tear Us Apart”?
I always figured Rudy for a goth, Joy Division fan myself.
Left by Noah
October 2, 2007 at 4:57pm