The Right Stuff - By: Peter Berkowitz - Politico.com
"Polls indicate that Rudy Giuliani -- the thrice-married, twice-divorced, pro-choice and civil-union-supporting former New York City mayor -- has become the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. In key states, Giuliani is polling even with or ahead of likely Democratic challengers. Meanwhile, commentators, particularly on the left, are forecasting with increasing confidence the coming of a conservative crackup.
So which is it? Is conservatism, as led by a tax-cutting, crime-fighting, socially liberal big-city blue-state mayor, about to remake itself by reclaiming the center of American politics? Or is it about to collapse from the combined force of its internal contradictions, the legacy of congressional Republicans' profligacy and the errors, real and imagined, of the Bush administration?
In assessing conservatism's prospects, it is important to recognize that President Bush has been no ordinary conservative. Therefore it would be a mistake, no less for conservatism's opponents than for conservatives themselves, to assume that the fate of American conservatism stands or falls with that of the Bush administration."
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