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Rudy Guiliani has marched in lockstep with liberals on affirmative action, gay rights, gay marriage, gun control, school prayer, tuition tax credits, liberal immigration policies, and he's reinforced it, time and time again. Just about everytime Rudy opens his mouth, offensive liberal words come pouring out. As Mayor, Rudy put liberals in high-paid city jobs, an indication what a Rudy WH would look like. Here then is Rudy in his own words:

--The New York State Liberal Party on its endorsement of Rudy Giuliani for Mayor: "When the Liberal Party Policy Committee reviewed a list of key social issues of deep concern to progressive New Yorkers, we found that Rudy Giuliani agreed with the Liberal Party's stance on a majority of such issues. He agreed with the Liberal Party's views on affirmative action, gay rights, gun control, school prayer and tuition tax credits. As Mayor, Rudy Giuliani would uphold the Constitutional and legal rights to abortion." N.Y.S. Liberal Party Endorsement Statement of Candidate Giuliani for Mayor of New York City April 8, 1989

--On the Republican Party: "Mr. Rockefeller represented 'a tradition in the Republican Party' I've worked hard to re-kindle - the Rockefeller, Javits, Lefkowitz tradition." Rudy Giuliani told the New York Times July 9, 1992

--Village Voice Interview with Guiliani: He was asked: "What kind of Republican Is [Giuliani]? A Reagan Republican?" Giuliani pauses before answering: "I'm a Republican." Village Voice January 24, 1989

--On Attending 1996 Republican Convention: Rudy expressed his pleasure when he wasn't invited to the Republican National Convention in San Diego. "If I take three or four days off from city business, I want to do it for a substantive purpose. It didn't seem to me any substantive purpose could be served by going to the Republican convention." said Rudy. Rudy! An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani, Page 459, by Wayne Barrett

--On Barry Goldwater: Giuliani described John Kennedy as "great and brilliant. Barry Goldwater as an "incompetent, confused and sometimes idiotic man." New York Daily News, May 13, 1997

--On President Bill Clinton: Shortly before his last-minute endorsement of Bob Dole in the 1996 presidential election, Giuliani told the Post's Jack Newfield that "most of Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine." Rudy! An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani, Wayne Barrett.

--The Daily News quoted Giuliani as saying March 1996: "Whether you talk about President Clinon, Senator Dole.... The country would be in very good hands in the hands of any of that group." An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani, Wayne Barrett.

Funny how Rush Limbaugh...certainly the most liberal person in America...always mentions three individuals when he talks about how bad it would be for the Republican Party if Republicans to nominate either Mike Huckabee or Johm McCain: Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney, and Rudy Giuliani.

Fred is history, if he was ever a serious contender, so that leaves just two Republicans who represent honesty and integrity, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. Of the two, Giuliani is by far the strongest leader and the toughest on securing the nation. He is also as strong as Mitt or anyone else in his conservative history of lowering taxes and spending in one of the most Liberal states in America.

Reason, rationality, and courage of convictions are the most important defining character traits of a true conservative. All of the hateful words being left here by the "I hate Rudy"-bots are the antithesis of what "Conservatism" stands for.

You have a policy difference with Rudy, express it rationally, express it calmly and rationally, If you argue like the Liberals on DU do, with words of hatred and emotion, you've lost the argument before it has even started.

This article is about as accurate an evaluation as I have seen. George Will who has been a pillar of traditional conservatism supports his candidacy, as do many of us who have been fighting for the Conservative cause all of our lives. I would rather have a pro-life, pro-Second amendment Conservative, but to assert, without any rational basis, that there is no difference between Rudy and the Democrats is dishonest and pure demgoguery at its foulest and most vile.