ean Scallon
June 27, 2007
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=30800Why does Rudy Guliani lead or has led the field of GOP presidential candidates in most polls since the beginning of the year, despite the fact he remains outside the party’s mainstream on issues like abortion, immigration and homosexual rights?
Over 10 years ago such positions would have certainly terminated his campaign on the ground, as it had former California governor Pete Wilson and Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Arlen Specter back in 1996. But today, Guliani is a serious candidate for the GOP nomination regardless of those views. The reason for this has a lot to do with a peculiar fetish that some so-called conservatives have with the concept of “leadership.”
Why would an ideology that supposedly is opposed to the concept of centralized power worship the proverbial “man on a white horse?” That depends on which form of centralized power we’re talking about.