Giuliani the Conservative

I have my own issues with Guiliani, but it looks like he may be the only candidate to actually represent fiscal conservatives and for that he is interesting. For the record, President Bush may be a social conservative, but he is a fiscal liberal. Guiliani is, in very broad terms, a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, basically the opposite of Bush. Guiliani at least appears to understand and combat the damage that "government programs" cause.

Giuliani the Conservative
And he's electable too.

BY STEVEN MALANGA
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 12:01 a.m. EST

Not since Teddy Roosevelt took on Tammany Hall a century ago has a New York politician closely linked to urban reform looked like presidential timber. But today Rudy Giuliani sits at or near the top of virtually every poll of potential 2008 presidential candidates. Already, Mr. Giuliani's popularity has set off a "stop Rudy" movement among cultural conservatives, who object to his three marriages and his support for abortion rights, gay unions and curbs on gun ownership. Some social conservatives even dismiss his achievement in reviving New York before 9/11. An August story on the Web site Right Wing News, for instance, claims that Mr. Giuliani governed Gotham from "left of center." Similarly, conservatives have been feeding the press a misleading collection of quotations by and about Mr. Giuliani, on tax policy and school choice issues, assembled to make him look like a liberal.

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