Finally, a Southern Baptist I can agree with... on one issue, anway: Rudy Giuliani should not be in the White House. Of course, I have some different reasons for opposing him, but the end result is the same.

According to The Hill, Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, says that Rudy Giuliani will not get the vote of "the 'vast majority' of social conservative voter's... even if he gets the nomination and faces off against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.)." Clinton's team must be lapping that one up. The problems, for Land, are Giuliani's positions, respectively, on abortion (he's pro-choice) and gay rights (he looks passable in a dress). Add to that, Giuliani is on his third wife; after having openly cheated on wife number two with wife number three. Not a good match for social conservatives.

There are other pressing reasons to oppose Rudy Giuliani's bid for the White House. After all, Rudy Giuliani wrote the book on how government can violate civil rights of citizens; starting out as a U.S. Attorney in the Reagan Administration where he engaged in the practice of cirmumventing Constitutional law with legal tactics untested in the courts, only to change to a new approach when the tactic did get tested. Then as mayor of the City of New York he used NYPD as an instrument of proactive law enforcement; i.e. arresting people hoping to find out they were going to commit a crime, rather than arresting people who actually committed a crime. This resulted in numerous lawsuits against the City of New York -- bet the tax payers were happy about that. He also used his storm troopers -- I mean police officers -- to harrass the homeless for the sole crime of being homeless; so he can clean them off the streets and make the streets pretty for "more desireable" denizens.

The only thing this man has going for him is his nationally-public image in the aftermath of 9/11. But, in time, the truth will come out about that too. After all, while he got credit for leading the emergency responders in a time of major crisis, the responders were only doing what the anti-terrorism unit in the CIA (under Bill Clinton) prepared and trained them to do. And they managed to screw that up even.

First of all, let's look at the first greatest mistake Rudy-egomaniac Giuliani made... putting the emergency response center in the World Trade Center in the first place; given the buildings (or one of them, anyway) had already been bombed once. Then, he had a fire department and a police department with segregated communications systems that did not allow them to talk to each other. The list goes on. But, in time, his image as America's mayor will be tarnished and most Americans will come to know how much New Yorkers had grown to hate him towards the end of his second term in office. But I rant.

It's good to hear Giuliani may not get the social convservative vote. I know he won't get the liberal vote either. Hopefully, word spreads about him and political moderates will run from him fast and hard.

Oh, did I mention Rudy Giuliani is Catholic? He wore that on his sleeve when he went after the Brooklyn Art Museum... Catholic League should remember that case; they were in the middle of it too: here and here. I wonder if Rudy got marriages one and two annulled before going on to marriage number three? And can a Catholic Republican who supports abortion rights and who is on his third wife receive Holy Communion?