Needless to say, I do not consider myself a yahoo or zealot.

I might add: Rudy Giuliani, for all his drawbacks for social conservatives, doesn’t give me the impression he thinks I am. I could be wrong. But while he’s clearly not one of us, I do have the sense — maybe it comes from growing up with us, having worked with us (there are more than a few Irish Catholic family-man cops, for instance), etc. — that he respects us.