Ed Morrissey explains why. Like him, I am not prepared to make too much of concerns that there may be a split in the Republican Party; as Ed points out, these threats are oftentimes made and never followed up on. But for those making the threats, perhaps they ought to remember what Ronald Reagan said: “My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy.”

And even if Rudy Giuliani is only a 60% friend, that is better than the alternative. Interestingly enough, people like Hillary Clinton never say that they are willing to spend years in the ideological wilderness and make the perfect the enemy of the good.

Perhaps there is a lesson to be learned in that.