A reader asks:

what would the Republican Party do if Rudy said: “I am not going to address either the guns or abortion issue while in office, as the Nation needs protecting and securing and the Enemies of the Nation need to be confronted.” ?
He won’t, of course… but would a ‘status quo’ on these issues be unacceptable to the Republican Party as a whole? To say that securing the Nation is a much higher priority than either is something that just might work… if any candidate had the wherewithal to say it. Because the next President will *also* be a War President, even if grace and perfection descended upon Iraq tomorrow.