The American Spectator

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p> If the Republican Party is foolish enough to nominate Mr. Giuliani for the position of President ( or Vice President), I am quite sure that those of us who are against gun control and (except for saving mothers' lives) abortion will stay home and sit on our check books -- as he would be no different from "Hillary." br> -- James Pawlak br> West Allis, Wisconsin /p>

An even better argument in favor of Lawrence Henry's suggestion of a future President Giuliani is Giuliani's own book, Leadership, which I happened to have recently read while proving Mark Twain's observation that the only difference between prison and a [Caribbean] cruise is that the latter incarceration may result in drowning. I didn't drown, did experience the prison aspect, and was greatly, greatly impressed with Giuliani via the book.

p>Nevertheless, Giuliani's failure of conscience in the matter of abortion, and in all likelihood its twin spectre, artificially expediting the death of the inconvenient and expensive elderly, cannot be balanced or exceeded by Giuliani's extraordinarily impressive positives. A man who cannot reason his way to protect the most defenseless and most innocent cannot be relied on to protect those of us not so defenseless and certainly not so innocent. How Giuliani ultimately answers for this matter to his Creator is his own affair, but how he answers for this matter to the voter is our affair, and I must vote "no." br> -- Frank Natoli br> Newton, New Jersey /p>

Reading Lawrence Henry's "Giuliani Time" I was struck by the need for a historical wake-up call for "conservatives." The retroactive falsification going on in the "conservative movement" regarding President Ronald Reagan is amazing. As a lifelong straight ticket Republican I'm stunned by the glossing over of facts about the Reagan administration. In their zeal to join the liberals in bashing President Bush some "conservatives" point to Reagan as the ideal President, understandably, but it would be nice if they'd use a modicum of honesty when hearkening back to Reagan.

Here are some facts now being conveniently ignored by the Washington and East Coast "conservatives" as they use President Reagan to bash his heir George W. Bush. President Reagan (1) failed to avenge more than 200 Marines murdered by terrorists, (2) grew the size of government, (3) chalked up massive deficits (to win the Cold War), (4) gave blanket amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, (5) cut a deal with Democrats to raise taxes in his second term, (6) adopted a Democrat scheme to "fix" Social Security and (7) appointed moderate Republicans to the Supreme Court.

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