On Nov. 23, David Brooks writes:

At the moment, Giuliani and fellow moderate Mitt Romney are attacking each other for being insufficiently Tancredo-esque.

They are not renouncing the policies they championed as city and state officials, but the emphasis as they run for federal office is all in the other direction.

In effect, they are competing to drive away Hispanic votes and make the party unelectable in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Florida and the nation at large.

In this way, they are participating in the greatest blown opportunity in recent political history.

At its current nadir, the G.O.P. had been blessed with five heterodox presidential candidates who had the potential to modernize the party on a variety of fronts.

They could be competing to do that, but instead they are competing to appeal to the narrowest slice of the old guard and flatter the most rigid orthodoxies of the Beltway interest groups.

Giuliani could have opened the party to the armies of dynamism — the sort of hard-working strivers who live in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx; instead he has shelved one of his core convictions.

Someday Rudy Giuliani will look back on this moment and wonder why he didn’t run as himself.

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REFERENCES:

1. Republicans lose ground among Hispanic voters
2. The GOP begins to implode - Salon.com
3. How the GOP Lost Its Way
4. Lou Dobbs - Aiding The Imminent GOP DownFall

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