The economy has been terrific, but you wouldn't know it. Tax cuts worked, but you wouldn't know it. And the reasons to persist in war are still valid, but you wouldn't know it. Rudy makes the same strong argument that convinced us in the first place. If the war is the big issue on which Election 2008 will be decided, does Rudy's position still resonate with a majority of Americans? Polls say no. I say yes, but with more hope than assurance.
By Rabbi Aryeh Spero
May 2, 2007
Speaking to conservative groups across the country, the complaint I hear most often is that elected Republican office holders refuse either to stand up for fellow Republicans under siege or go on verbal offense against Democrat policies. …
Things may be changing. This week, Rudy Giuliani … declared … that Democrats are choosing a policy of defense against terrorism instead of a policy of offense. He stated that if we allow the Democrats to win in 2008 and institute their defensive (appeasement) policies, the jihadists will inflict greater damage here and our road to victory will be made that much harder. …
No matter whom one prefers in this upcoming battle for the party’s nomination, all should take a cue from Giuliani as to how the campaign should be waged …
Ronald Reagan always tried to educate Americans as to why political conservatism works, what it is all about. Californians and, later, Americans voted for him because what he enunciated resonated deeply with what most Americans believed, and still do. …
Rudy … explained how today’s Democrat party is not only against the war but equally against our methods of surveillance, our methods of interrogation, our internment of captured terrorists. The Democrats are against anything we do to protect ourselves …
Rudy … is showing the way for how we must campaign. Score one for Rudy.
Rabbi Spero is a radio talk show host, a pulpit rabbi, and president of Caucus for America.
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