Republican and Conservative political analysis and commentary

When the race for the Republican Presidential nomination began more than a year ago, Rudolph W. Giuliani entered as the front runner; not only for the nomination, but for the presidency. The hero of 9/11, he was leading in national polls and had an appeal that crossed party lines. He was in many ways the anti-McCain, the person that many Republican least wanted to see become President.

It was that appeal, however, that included pro-abortion, pro-gay, and anti-gun tendencies that left the Republican primary voter searching for a suitable conservative alternative; an anti-Giuliani. With the primaries set to begin in less than two weeks, that search which seems to have been settled is the subject of this week's Friday Look.