...And Starts Swinging

It is clear that Fred wants to make the distinction between his conservative credentials and his competitors. It appeared that he was going to make the point by pointing out his role in the 1994 Republican Revolution and let the rest of us figure out what Rudy and Mitt were up to.

Nope.

A blog entry on his web site today points it out explicitly:

There were those, even some Republicans, who didn’t see the need to run on conservative change. In his U.S. Senate race Mitt Romney disavowed being linked with President Reagan. In a debate Romney said,

I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.

In that campaign Romney opposed reducing the capital gains tax.

Rudy Giuliani also stood apart from mainstream Republicans. In 1994 he endorsed Democratic governor Mario Cuomo over George Pataki. Former White House speech writer Michael Gerson considered that act a symptom of “some loose ideological moorings.”

And earlier that year Giuliani stood before reporters and praised the efforts of illegal immigrants despite their lawbreaking: