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I will not vote for Rudy Giuliani. Under no circumstances. Satan himself could be running the Republican Primary (and with John McCain, we are might close) and I would not vote for Rudy Giuliani.
Yes, Rudy Giuliani is a loyal Republican, and he has served Republican Presidents very well. And he was a fantastic Mayor for New York at a time when New York needed a fantastic Mayor.
But I do not think Rudy Giuliani would make a good Conservative President.
First, he is not pro-life. Not in any way, shape, or form. And I will not even consider voting for a candidate who is not affirmatively pro-life.
Second, I think he is weak on the whole issues of originalism and the Constitution. He is on record as saying that he believes an originalist could vote to uphold Roe v Wade. Sorry, but that dog won't hunt.
Third, Giuliani is a big government Rockefeller Republican. Big government is bad. Period. It sucks the oxygen out of the economy and out of our freedom.
Fourth, I personally think is egomaniacal. Everything in his campaign points back to his role on 9/11 and helping New York recover from the attack. Everything. That does not bode well. We don't need an egomaniacal president. We had one of those for most of the 1990s. We don't need everything to be about Rudy Giuliani.
Fifth, Giuliani did a fantastic job fighting crime, and I have no doubt he would continue in that role. But from time to time, he has allowed excess to rain. At the Federal Level, we already have that in Sarbanes-Oxley. We don't need a "crimefighter" who comes into office with a reputation for "getting things done" to then pull and Eliot Spitzer and let his Justice Department go all hogwild on half of US industry.
But we shouldn't forget Abner Louima, either.
Sixth, he is not a "movement conservative". He doesn't stick to First Principles. He sued the federal government as Mayor of New York to fight the "line-item veto", but now has a different view. He opposes the Alternative Minimum Tax, not because it is fundamentally unsound, but because of what it means to taxpayers in high-tax states like New York and New Jersey. In short, he lacks a consistent set of beliefs that don't change based on where or when he is running.
So, I vote no on Rudy.