Why not Rudy?

Patrick of The Pagan Temple left a comment here in support of Rudolph Giuliani's candidacy. When I saw my reply getting long I decided to share it with everyone.

The nations of Europe did not simply wake up one morning and decide to dismantle their militarise to the point where they could not defend themselves. The decision to build massive unsustainable welfare states which would weaken their economies and create a dependant population who would spend their entire lives mired in a state of perpetual adolescence was not made overnight.

European nations did not suddenly decide lower their birthrates to about half of what it would take to sustain their populations making massive immigration from Muslim nations necessary to keep their economies from collapsing. They also did not reach a quick decision to devalue marriage to the point where most couples now dispense with it all together.

And they did not decide to surrender to Islamic fascism just because it was a slow Tuesday and they needed something to do.

Europe did not get where it is today, too far over the brink of ruin to ever pull itself back, as a result of any calculated choice to arrive at that place.

What brought Europe to the place it is was a loss of the inner strength which comes from having a faith in a transcendent morality. It does not matter that Rudy stood up to Arafat and lowered crime while slashing the welfare rolls. The men who laid the foundation for the weakness of modern Europe were not themselves weak.

What the Republicans who embrace tax cuts and a strong defense but disdain the social conservative issues offer the nation is a brief period of strength and prosperity followed by a long term decline into weakness and ultimately poverty and enslavement.

A nation cannot survive without both inner and outer strength. The values of the fiscal and foreign policy conservatives offer the outer strength and the values of the social conservatives offer the inner strength which comprises the framework which holds up the outer shell.

A nation can no more survive which surrenders that inner framework than a building can continue to stand with its foundation and its load bearing members removed.

The genius of the Republican Party is that it combines both the inner and outer strength. That fusion is under attack by people within the Party who do not simply fail to “get” the social conservatism stuff but are actually hostile to it. Notice that there is nobody on the social conservative side who says that what the Party needs to do is forget about cutting taxes and fighting terrorists and focus exclusively on protecting the unborn. The people who want to throw the other side's issues overboard are always the economic conservatives.

The only hope for the United States to survive as a free and prosperous nation is the Republican Party. But the Republican Party can only fulfill that hope if it remains the conservative party in every way. It is therefore more important for Republicans to defeat the leftists within their own ranks than for them to defeat Democrat Party leftists in a general election.

The United States can survive a Hillary Clinton presidency just as we survived a Jimmy Carter presidency. What we cannot survive is a two party system in which neither parry is willing to stand up for the values which keep the United States off the road to Brussels.

Jimmy Carter put Ronald Reagan in the White House and Hillary Clinton's socialzied health care scheme gave the Republican Party control of both houses of congress. We will live through and possibly even benifit from a Hillary presidency, but we will not long survive the Giuliani wing's victory in the battle for the soul of the Republican Party.

So yes, he will continue to be Julie Annie even if it is a choice between him and Mrs. Bill Clinton.