[Jim Robinson]

Reminds me of a recent post to FR (paraphrasing):

Conservatives have had their boot on the neck of the GOP for too long. The new GOP will govern from the center [ie, left]. Issues like abortion and gun control will never again be major issues.

[Prokopton]

Conservatives have had their boot on the neck of the GOP for too long.

I'd be willing to take my boot off for long enough to give the boot to Rudy.

[Jim Robinson]

The quarter-century hold that “values voters” from the Christian Right have had over the Republican Party is being directly challenged by Rudy Giuliani’s presidential bid.

Having spent months failing to appease his antiabortion critics, the former New York Mayor and front-runner for the Republican nomination has decided to adopt a high-risk strategy by tackling them head on.

Yesterday Mr Giuliani underlined his “pro-choice” stance of supporting abortion rights while speaking at Houston Baptist University, while also addressing his key campaign themes of taxes and terrorism.

“Ultimately, there has to be a right to choose,” he said. Asked whether the party’s conservative base would nominate a candidate with such views for president, he replied: “That’s up to Republicans – I guess we are going to find out.”

But Mr Giuliani’s new approach suggested that he might nominate Supreme Court justices who viewed the 34-year-old ruling as too ingrained in precedent to reverse.

And there we have it, folks. The stated goal is to eliminate the pro-life, pro-family, pro-liberty planks from the GOP party platform. Elect Rudy and the party goes liberal. Do we need two liberal parties? Can the nation survive with nothing but liberal vs liberal?

[Spiff]

Reminds me of a recent post to FR (paraphrasing): Conservatives have had their boot on the neck of the GOP for too long. The new GOP will govern from the center [ie, left]. Issues like abortion and gun control will never again be major issues.

I seem to recall that post and that former FReeper.... ;-)

Keep giving them hell, Jim.

[GregH]

This is a failed, doomed strategy from the Giuliani campaign.

If he does win the nomination he is going to dividem,fracture and hurt the Republican party.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

For somebody who only so recently was wooing the Real Right, Rudy has sure been smoked out as a lying fraud when it comes to his true intentions about SCOTUS!

Seize the day, we sees the light and it’s a smoking gun indeed--one of the few Rudy would prefer unseized.

[jedward]

“Conservatives have had their boot on the neck of the GOP for too long. The new GOP will govern from the center [ie, left]. Issues like abortion and gun control will never again be major issues.”

That right there, what you just paraphrased is just the fuel that drives the hydraulic pumps in order to get us all back to steady course 090!

[chesley]

Not much point in voting Republican if they hold the same despicable views as the Democrats. Better to let the Democrats win and take the consequences.

However, I do not believe a truly conservative Republican will be defeated, especially by the Hillarybeast. But if so, God help America.

[Antoninus]

Hey, you never know. Maybe he and Ron Paul could just go on tour together. Paul will serve up some pasty-faced blather about how 9-11 was America's fault, and Rudy could body-slam him repeatedly. What a great act that would be! It could be the political equivalent of the "Hulk Hogan vs. Jose Luis Rivera" matches from the old WWF, guaranteed to make Rudy look like an invincible stud.

Too bad he's nothing but a bald, lisping, liberal dud.

[colorado tanker]

But Mr Giuliani’s new approach suggested that he might nominate Supreme Court justices who viewed the 34-year-old ruling as too ingrained in precedent to reverse.

Sorry, Rudy. That's a deal-breaker for me.

[zerosix]

If the conservatives lose on this most of important First Amendment issue in the GOP, I daresay that there will be a very dim future for the GOP as many of us/them see nothing different between the Republican Party and that of the liberal dimocRAT Party.

We may no longer have the influence but the truth is on our side and the truth will never be silenced!

Even Stalin, Hitler, et al are in the trash bins of history while the truth lives on.