Giuliani is a strong defense Democrat with some economic credentials. Huckabee is Southern a Pro-Life Democrat. Romney is a manager running for a leadership position.
He spent his political career chewing up liberal orthodoxy and spitting it out - and I think that somehow, in some way, voters in Oklahoma and Kansas get that about him even without knowing the specifics.
His success in turning New York around wasnt merely a matter of changing policies. He had to sustain those policies when they came under deliberate, systematic and unrelenting assault by the citys liberal elite.
In case after case, he refused to accept the veto of liberal public opinion. He drove porn shops out of residential neighborhoods, even though his administration had to fight more than 30 lawsuits on the matter. He crusaded against bilingual education, a disastrous policy that had gone unquestioned in this city for decades.
And most important, he stood up for the police department against any and all attacks - which were incessant and incredibly unjust. The race baiters and their shills at the Not-So-Great Grey Lady talked as though the NYPD was engaging in genocide when the opposite was the case - many thousand of people are alive today who would have died if the NYPD hadnt taken on its newly aggressive posture under Giuliani.
Personally like RG because he has threatened to shake up the State Dept, saying “the era of cost free anti-Americanism has to end”.
LOL, and boy would I like to see those diplomats disgraced.
FT and RG are running the most conservative campaigns so far, obviously RG is not a social ideologue, he is rather agnostic, and tends to look at those issues in legal practical jargon, instead of ideology.
Those are the only two, IMO, who could/would/and want to battle the UnAmerican Democrat Party.