Crowds are Out for Huckabee and Giuliani
It’s rock star day at CPAC. The Omni Shoreham is crowded. Even the Mike Huckabee book signing had a lengthy line (longer than Newt Gingrich’s which was across the aisle).
I would have liked to be in the Regency Ballroom to hear Rudy Giuliani live and in person, but the place is packed. Rudy is the man even though he’s the most moderate/liberal Republican candidate out there. It says either conservatives (like me) think victory in the war is the number one issue and can deal with Rudy’s social liberalism, or conservatives want to win in 2008 and will bite their lips and put up with the complete Rudy.
Scott Olin Schmidt writes,
For all the Mitt Romney and Sam Brownback buzz that there is around the convention floor, it seems that the attendees are more interested in the moderate Rudy Giuliani.
Why?
For starters, Giuliani is straight-forward about how he feels. He does not dance around his positions on the abortion or the gays–even if it means that he won’t agree with his audience.
What’s more, there is the sense that, as much as Conservatives like the Romneys and Brownbacks of this world, unless the Democrats nominate Dennis Kucinich, the only Republican who can win the White House in 2008 is named Rudolph W. Giuliani.
[Newt Gingrich photo added.]
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