Neocon echo chamber

In 2000 the Weekly Standard flacked for John McCain. Now it looks like they've dropped him and moved on to Giuliani.

Let's Make a Deal
Social conservatives, Rudy Giuliani, and the end of the litmus test.

The author thinks that we will see big changes in 2008:

Next year may see the party of the Sunbelt and Reagan, based in the South and in Protestant churches, nominate its first presidential candidate who is Catholic, urban, and ethnic--and socially liberal on a cluster of issues that set him at odds with the party's base. As a result, it may also see the end of the social issues litmus test in the Republican party, done in not by the party's left wing, which is shrunken and powerless, but by a fairly large cadre of social conservatives convinced that, in a time of national peril, the test is a luxury they cannot afford.

Who knows, she could be right. OTOH, she relies heavily on neocon pundits like Frum, Goldberg, and Podhoretz to make her case. And they, after all, are not really representativie of the Southern, Protestant element that she is trying to describe.