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p> COMMITMENT TO NOMINATE br> Re: Jennifer Rubin's Why Judges Matter : /p>

Jennifer Rubin writes of "[Giuliani's] commitment to nominate conservative judges," but what are conservative voters to put more weight on, a "commitment to nominate" or an actual record of nominating? The evidence of the latter, or more accurately lack thereof, is fairly well documented in Politico.com's Ben Smith's "Giuliani Judges Lean Left."

Almost all of the literature on Mayor Giuliani's record indicates that he is rock solid on effectively protecting the public against crime, and doing so by using existing law to full advantage. All of the reduction during his term of the NYC murder rate, from over 2,000 per year to just over 600, was done without one new "gun control" law. It is reasonable to infer that President Giuliani would put the same effort into effectively protecting the country against international dangers, and again doing so by using existing law to full advantage. The same laws in the hands of Democrats, municipal and national, resulted in 2,000 New Yorkers murdered each year, and the willful failure to take the fight to the enemy resulting in the 3,000 New Yorkers dying in the WTC attacks.

p>But it is not sufficient to nominate judges who will enforce the law, if that means enforcing precedent, because there is a record of bad precedent dating back to the Warren Court, and it will take decades of the most conservative judges in every respect to restore the law to some semblance of original constitutional intention. And there is no evidence that a President Giuliani has any ambition to do that. "Commitment to nominate" is not evidence. br> -- Frank Natoli br> Newton, New Jersey /p> p> Ms. Rubin writes to win over conservatives, who are still thinking, "None of the above." Rudy Giuliani, considered too liberal

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