Can Giuliani Help Social Conservatives?
All these questions are interesting but the most engaging political question at this stage in process of picking our next president has to do with Rudy Giuliani. – Can America’s mayor win support from enough social conservatives to win the Republican nomination? Maybe not, but social conservatives should think long and hard before they decide to pass on Giuliani. This may be difficult advice to credit. Giuliani is thoroughly alienated from the dominant concerns of the social right. The bundle of social issues that provoke so much vitriol in our politics arise out of the effort to reverse society’s moral decay. Social conservatives see a country with declining respect for the value of human life, and they don’t want government to hasten the decline by celebrating abortion and indiscriminately funding the destruction of human embryos for research. They see a country that no longer understands what sex is for and they don’t want government promoting further confusion by equating homosexua
