Catholics, Rudy Giuliani, and the Democrats' search for a backbone

The National Catholic Register opposes Rudy Giuliani because they fear his pro-abortion views will be contagious if he becomes standard-bearer for the Republican Party.

This is an interesting debate: Would the election of a pro-abortion Republican as President of the U.S. set back the pro-life movement for a generation?

I don't know. We'd better think about it now rather than later, though I think so much of Mr. Giuliani that I'd likely vote for him, knowing he has a backbone, rather than have to watch the Democrats try to grow a military backbone during a war. But perhaps the best thing that could happen to the nation would be for a Democratic president to have to take responsibility for defending the country during war.

Look at Great Britain. Tony Blair has struggled, but he has forced the Labour Party to go against the entire sea of leftist ideology to affirm the Atlantic alliance, pursue an active war against Muslim fascism, support Israel indirectly, resist knee-jerk anti-Americanism, and stand up for Great Britain's interests rather than fade into the mediocrity of Fabian socialism. It would be painful to watch (though maybe no more painful than the current administration), but if a Democratic president could achieve the same, it would be very good for America and the world.