Giuliani isn't even in office currently; he's simply assembling allies so that he can run for the Presidency in 2008. If he's already in cahoots with Ralph Reed, what do you think he'll do when he's in office and beholden to him? And, yes, this is that Ralph Reed, the notoriously homophobic one who used to head the Christian Coalition, the one who is anti-choice, the one who was on the Enron payroll at Karl Rove's behest in order to secretly reward his support of the Bush administration, the one Microsoft has dropped after he convinced the company to stop supporting gay rights legislation.

Let's cut them off at the pass. We've still got the 2006 mid-term elections coming up this fall, and as Sabato's Crystal Ball said in their April 28 post Who Votes?, these contests all come down to turnout. As they said about the 2002 mid-terms:

In most recent elections, presidential and midterm, the voters have been divided fairly evenly between Democrats and Republicans... But there is one great exception in the last five national elections: the midterm election of 2002. In the wake of September 11, President Bush was riding high in the polls, and he was able to use the national security issue to the Republicans' advantage. GOP voters were energized, Democrats were demoralized, and as a result, the 2002 national electorate had a strongly Republican tilt: 40 percent were Republicans, only 31 percent Democrats, and 23 percent Independents. Not surprisingly, Republicans fared unusually well in 2002, recapturing the Senate and adding six U.S. House seats.

And so, as I've said over and over and over again, please get to know your local races and vote in November. Let's put these pandas back behind the zoo bars where they belong.