{"id":417,"date":"2007-02-05T04:15:21","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T10:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/02\/05\/rudy-cant-fail-part-iii\/"},"modified":"2007-02-05T08:00:02","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T14:00:02","slug":"rudy-cant-fail-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Rudy Can&#8217;t Fail, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed and I had a great conversation about the &#8217;08 GOP race on the show Saturday.  I think we are in similar places.<\/p>\n<p>For both of us, seeing  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/archives\/005707.html\">Rudy Giuliani speaking in &#8217;05 at the Center of the American Experiment <\/a>was a bit of an epiphany; Rudy has something that is sorely lacking from too many in the GOP, especially on the short list; leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Giuliani isn&#8217;t a conservative true believer; he&#8217;s very weak on abortion and the Second Amendment.  But if you&#8217;re a conservative, abortion is best handled by the states, and as long as the President refrains from turning the BATF loose on the people and pushing to repeal the Second Amendment, I can look at other issues more seriously.  Indeed, the most important way the President interfaces with either of these issues is via the judges he nominates to the federal and Supreme Courts.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s there that Ed got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsquartersblog.com\/mt\/archives\/009080.php\">some good news<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the Federal judiciary I would want judges who are strict constructionists because I am. I&#8217;m a lawyer. I&#8217;ve argued cases in the Supreme Court. I&#8217;ve argued cases in the Court of Appeals in different parts of the country. I have a very, very strong view that for this country to work, for our freedoms to be protected, judges have to interpret not invent the Constitution. Otherwise you end up, when judges invent the constitution, with your liberties being hurt. Because legislatures get to make those decisions and the legislature in South Carolina might make that decision one way and the legislature in California a different one. And that&#8217;s part of our freedom and when that&#8217;s taken away from you that&#8217;s terrible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This, combined with the pragmatic desire to have a <em>leader <\/em>running for the White House, has given Giuliani <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsquartersblog.com\/mt\/archives\/009075.php\">a surprisingly good start<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am still undecided.  I was impressed with Romney last week, and Giuliani is on my short list.  McCain isn&#8217;t &#8211; he has a lot of forgiveness to grovel for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed and I had a great conversation about the &#8217;08 GOP race on the show Saturday. I think we are in similar places. For both of us, seeing Rudy Giuliani speaking in &#8217;05 at the Center of the American Experiment was a bit of an epiphany; Rudy has something that is sorely lacking from too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}