Beat Me To The Punch

Prof. K. bested me in posting the long-awaited (well, here anyway) Hadley Arkes explanation of where things stand between pro-lifers and the GOP and the probable effects of a Giuliani candidacy on the pro-life movement. Arkes thinks it'll be a disaster for the party, yet admits he might --as they say-- hold his nose and vote for RG. If there were a pro-life VP:

Faced then with the possibility of a Democratic presidency determined to weave the ethic of abortion rights more firmly into our law and to have its judges install same-sex marriage, a Giuliani candidacy could offer some slender grounds of hope. Under those conditions, I might bite my lip, vote for him, and indulge those hopes. But they would be the hopes of the supplicants. And they will be affected at every point by the awareness of just who has the upper hand, and just who, in this party newly reshaped, does not matter all that much.

I've mentioned before that Arkes is my guru on these matters, although I'm not certain I completely agree with him here --but I'll have to get to that after the Thanksgiving cleaning & cooking. In the meanwhile, over the course of the past week Romney has received not endorsements but very positive press from various Conservative forces. Is that the coalescing of the "values voters" we hear?