Why Rudy for Churchgoers?

Novak, Sun Times, RCP puzzles on Rudy's appeal to churchgoers, despite his fallen-away Catholic status and still liberal social views, though he has moved toward the center on judges and parental notification. This makes sense:

How anybody that liberal can be the apparent choice of the religious right is attributed by Republican pollster Frank Luntz to Giuliani's reputation for fighting terrorism. "He has turned security into a social issue," Luntz told me.

He is also in favor of school choice, which particularly impacts Catholics and has stated 2nd amendment issues should be decided by the states. And this, from a NY Times story today on the challenge he faced, and overcame, in NYC when he became mayor:

“We accepted pornography, prostitution as just commonplace,” he said to a conservative audience in Washington last spring. “We accepted street-level drug dealing as something we couldn’t do anything about.”

And this in South Carolina, as heads bobbed up and down across the room. “There was a tremendous amount of crime. It was the crime capital of America. It was a devastated city in many ways. It was a depressed city.”

So that's the appeal--tough on crime, tough on terror, and a pitch for personal responsibility, rather than big government solutions.