Anti-abortion leaders say that if anything, their movement is resurgent — with a round of recent victories in the courts and the state legislatures — and that they are confident it will exert its power in 2008, just as it has in every other presidential campaign for three decades.
If Mr. Giuliani endures, in short, he will be bucking an awful lot of history.
The constant dithering since Reagan means that our top contender (Rudy, McLame, Romney) candidates are ALL pro aborts of one degree or another.
If the Republican Party CAN "accept" any of these pro aborts as the nominee, it won't be doing it with my vote.
Not a snow balls chance in hell.
“If Mr. Giuliani endures, in short, he will be bucking an awful lot of history.”
And we know he won’t. It needs to be painful enough that another Liberal that wants to try the same stunt in the future, will quickly erase that thought and bring themselves back to failed attempt!
Many accuse many others of being "single issue" voters.
Quantitatively, abortion is what is known in statistics as an "outlier". The act itself is so repulsive, so extreme, so harmful to mother and (of course) child, and so destructive to our collective respect for all human life that its weighting among the various issues skews the results of the political scale. Those who clamor for the WOT as the single issue need to realize that the ideals laid out in our seminal Declaration of Independence - right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness - are precisely the ideals that make America worth fighting for in the first place. To vacillate on the objects of those rights is to undermine original intent and bring in precisely those less noble tendencies toward legalism that have, in recent years, shown themselves as a blight on the American identity in the form of frivolous lawsuits and twisting of the meaning of the law for personal gain. America's reputation for lawsuits has gained dubious international recognition.
Are those self-serving traits of the sort we wish to see further amplified? Are we as a people strong enough to keep a republic whose Constitution "was made only for a moral and religious people...wholly inadequate to the government of any other" (John Adams)?
Double nope.
No, it’s not acceptable.
“Can the G.O.P. Accept Giuliani’s Abortion Stance?”
Rick Santorum will be sprinkling rock salt where hell froze over first!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, and no. No. And no.
No, if anything this party is closer than it ever has been in years of reaching one of it's goals, overturning Roe vs. Wade. My preference is the Human Life Amendment, but overturning Roe vs. Wade would be a huge step.
Can a supporter of abortion rights, even one with caveats and qualifications, make it to the top of the Republican Party in 2008?"
No. I will fight as hard as I can to ensure this does not happen.
"Maybe, some analysts suggest, Republicans are willing to bend on abortion to get a nominee — Mr. Giuliani — who is appealing on other grounds, like fighting terrorism."
They fail to explain how he is appealing on terror. Just because he got rid of the squeegee men, kicked Arafat out of a concert, and did a good job on 9/11, really doesn't mean much. He is not near as versed on foreign policy as say Duncan Hunter.
This is a critical election. We need a conservative, not a liberal.
It depends who votes in the primaries. Alot of conservatives have checked out of politics. There have been a few rinos elected for governors lately.
The “N” or the “O”.
