Posted on 05/14/2007 11:17:05 AM PDT by cpforlife.org
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Rudy Giuliani isn't doing himself any favors on abortion by upsetting pro-life Republican voters will constant reminders that he's pro-abortion. Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards isn't helping him either as she lavished praise on the former New York City mayor over a speech he gave Friday. Last week, Giuliani appeared in Houston for a campaign stop and told voters there that his record as New York mayor and his dealing with issues like terrorism and crime made him the best candidate for president.
He said Republicans should support him on that basis even though he disagrees with most members of his party by supporting abortion and wanting to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research.
"If we don't find a way of uniting around broad principles that will appeal to a large segment of this country, if we can't figure that out, we are going to lose this election," he said.
Richards praised the comments in a press release LifeNews.com obtained.
It's encouraging to see that the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president supports the right to make personal private health care decisions free from government intrusion," she said.
"Giuliani's principled stand disproves the old-school belief that you have to check your convictions at the Presidential primary door," Richards added.
She warned that "Giuliani is pro-choice and at the front of the pack" claimed that "the days of the anti-choice strangle-hold on the Republican Party are numbered."
But, Republican voters have previously turned away pro-abortion candidates from capturing the primary nod, including former California Gov. Pete Wilson and Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter. Republicans haven't had a pro-abortion nominee since Gerald Ford in 1976.
Polls have also shown that abortion is a winning issue for GOP presidential candidates.
Post-election polling after the 2004 presidential elections found that President Bush's pro-life stance gave him an edge over pro-abortion Sen. John Kerry.
A 2004 Wirthlin Worldwide post-election poll found that 42 percent of voters said abortion affected the way they voted for president. Twenty-four percent of voters cast their ballots for President Bush while 15% voted for Kerry, giving Bush a 9 percent advantage on the issue of abortion.
Eight percent of voters in the Wirthlin poll indicated abortion was the "most important" issue affecting their votes and Bush won among those voters by a six to two percent margin, leading Kerry by four percentage points among the most intense abortion voters.
Thank you.
Rooty hasn't been able to stick to much of anything. He is a better flip flopper than Jon Cary.
Planned Parenthood is most likely hoping for a Rooty win. Naral has given him a 100% rating.
Most of the FR Rooty Toots are probably also lavishing praise upon him.
Thompson/Hunter.
“Planned Parenthood Sings Praises of Rudy Giuliani Speech on Abortion”
These are Swan Songs, not Siren songs!!
(Rudy Ghouliani - I like that)
Mean while - back in the wider U.S.A.
Rudy continues to lead in all the polls.
Hmmm
Well - you might be right - and you might be wrong.
It’s still early and I know the fight will taken to Rudy hard.
It will be interesting to see how Brit Hume questions Rudy tomorrow night.
Or how the other candidates attack Rudy.
And - how he reacts to those attacks - which is really the measure of the man.
Tough when you’re in the lead.
Well, that eliminates one possibly of who that FReeper was.
Naw, that would result in an improvement.
It’s encouraging to see that the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president supports the right to make personal private health care decisions free from government intrusion,” she said.
It’s not free from ‘government intrusion’ if our tax dollars are paying for it.
Meanwhile, Sean Hannity is on the air kissing his ass again.
Rudy continues his attempt at creating an insurmountable schism within the Republican party.
***Yup. He’s a real good republican, all right. /s
Why does the republican party need someone like this whose cold implementation of a political calculus is splitting the party?
Know why? Because there's a good percentage of Republican voters who are not conservatives at all. They're not the majority, but they seem to be about 20-30% of the voters. They support Rudy because all the other candidates are conservative. As a result, the various conservative GOP candidates split the vote of the Republican base, whereas Rudy keeps leading by taking the whole vote of the RINOs who despise conservative values.
But then, you probably know that . . . SINCE YOU ARE ONE OF THEM!
Wont this hurt the feelings of the anyone-but-Hillary crowd?
***So does that mean that all those freepers who put in so much effort to deny such things are going to be coming back with apologies or are they going to just moveon.org and continue down the path of destruction with their cult-of-personality candidate?
If rudy loses the nomination and declares a third party candidacy, what will these supposed good republicans do? How much support do the rudybots think he would have in that instance?
Ok - I resemble that remark.
But if your numbers are correct - why does Rudy have a 65% favorable rating among all Republicans?
Some where your numbers fail.
And nationally Rudy takes between 45% and 52% of the popular vote.
Hmm
http://www.rasmussenresearch.com/Political%20Tracking/Republican%20Primary/2008GOPPresidentialPrimary.htm
Rudy will NOT run as a third party candidate.
Maybe you’ve not been listening - he has said that repeatedly.
Like it or not - he is a Republican - and is running as one.
The Republican who is likely to go third party is the current mayor of NYC.
Maybe youve not been listening - he has said that repeatedly.
***I’ve looked at a lot of things he has said repeatedly, and some of them have been straightforward lies. Why should I believe him on this one?
This is a dilemma crafted to counter the normal hogwash dilemma that some freepers continue to push, which is what IF rudy is the nominee... blah blah blah. I see that you did NOT answer the dilemma I posted. That would be on the same level of a freeper telling you that rudy is NOT going to be the nominee, so stop asking. It’s only fair — if rudy supporters want to keep pushing this nonsense then they need to put up or shut up. My guess is that they’ll do neither, just as you have done.
Again - Rudy will NOT run as a third party candidate.
If defeated he will support the GOP nominee - as will I and 95% of all other Rudy supporters.
Relax a little - it’s just politics.
Trust me on this one - Rudy will NOT run under a third party.
And again, you do not answer the dilemma put to you.
Trust me on this one -
***Nope. Prove yourself trustworthy. Go over to wideawake and ask the following:
Then where are the former freepers who kept saying that he wasnt pro-abort/pro-gun control/pro-gay activism/pro-open borders? I dont see many coming back to Free Republic with contrite spirits because theyve been snookered by this guy. That means they have been caught lying for their candidate, and rather than own up to it, theyre following him down the garden path. The indicator is very high that you are simply wrong in your assessment, because if there werent many that would have followed him, wed be seeing a bunch come back to FR.
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