Interesting. We can deduce at least two things from this article.
One. Giuliani himself has made a pact with the New York Times. He promises to back abortion all out; they promise to give him a lot of publicity. Evidently Adam Nagourney, one of their premier liberal propagandists, has been assigned to this task, since he also co-wrote the earlier article.
Two. Giuliani is hoping that he can use liberal newspapers like the times, and no doubt later the major Florida papers, to persuade Democrats to register as Republicans for the primaries.
Rememember that McCain did that in 2000, very successfully, and was leading in the early primaries in places like Detroit, where massive numbers of Democrats switched over to vote for him against Bush. This would require the full cooperation of the left-wing media (which McCain got back then) and also the urban political operators, who would shepherd their flocks to vote in the Republican primaries.
I’d say this is a heads up. In the end it failed for McCain, largely because he overstepped himself in the Bob Jones attack that tried to paint Bush as a Catholic hater. But it could be dangerous. He might very well win in the states with reliable Democrat machines, like Florida, New Jersey, New York.
On the other hand, if Hellery still has competition she isn’t going to want her herds of tame voters to vote in the Republican primary, unless she figures it’s a good way to deprive Obama of the black vote or something of that kind.
Any way you slice it, however, this article is a real heads up to watch out for dirty tricks next spring.
It should be very entertaining to watch, Guiliani looks like a fish out of water trying to explain his position on Abortions, and yet he cannot bring himself to just say “Yes, abortions should be permitted all the time and I believe that”.