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?
See Dick run.
See Dick trip.
See Dick fall.
See Dick switch parties.
See us wave good-bye.
Being on the proper side on the WOT is necessary but not sufficient; we may as well nominate Sen. Lieberman.
I despise that phrase of theirs. Right to choose? Choose what? We CHOOSE brands of peanut butter, we don't CHOOSE whether our baby gets to live or dies a brutal death. That is just evil, pure and simple. They are pro-abortion; to them, there is no other true choice. If it were, they would encourage adoption. They don't.
There are certain lines people are reluctant to cross when selecting a candidate, well, this is mine. I will NOT cross that line. I have an allegiance to God, not to any political entity. If that makes me a one-issue voter, then so be it.
“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. “
I like where this is going, I think that now that the liberal wing of the Republican party truly has an effective champion, that the Social Conservatives can finally grab hold of their oily necks and finally bury any doubt of what the true base is.
We don’t have a champion, but I do think that we have the numbers, and the man that we choose will win the primary.
Thank God that there is plenty of time for us to put our demoralized selves back together to defeat Rudy, he will be the uniting cause that we needed.
ping.
We’d be Canada. One liberal party, the other less-so.