Posted on 06/26/2007 4:19:29 PM PDT by wagglebee
Virginia Beach, VA (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-abortion Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani continued his efforts to reach out to primary voters who may be inclined to support other candidates because of his position. He told an audience at Regent University that the issue of terrorism is the most important single issue in the campaign.
Giuliani gave a 30 minute speech Tuesday at the conservative Christian university and never mentioned abortion directly or how he is out of step with most Republican voters, who are pro-life.
But he did appear to acknowledge the divide between his views and those of GOP voters he needs to capture the party's nomination.
"Don't expect you're going to agree with me on everything because that would be unrealistic. I don't agree with myself on everything," he said, using a self-deprecating tactic he's employed before.
"But if you agree with me about enough things, and you think I have the ability to lead then maybe I'm the person you can support," he added.
He urged pro-life voters to look beyond their differences with him over abortion and appeared to say that the destruction of more than 1.2 million unborn children annually was not the top issue facing Americans.
"It's not about one issue, it's about many issues," he said, according to a transcript of his speech. "If there is one issue that dominates ... is the fact that Islamic terrorists are planning to kill us. They have succeeded in doing it and they want to do it again."
After the speech, Giuliani talked with reporters about how he approached abortion in it. He told Reuters that he did not purposefully avoid the issue of abortion.
But Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, who has said he couldn't vote for Giuliani in the primary, told Reuters that pro-life voters could work together to stop the former New York mayor from getting the party's nod.
"Social conservatives cannot elect a president but they certainly can prevent one from being elected," he said.
Pro-Life Ping
Stop Rudy Ping.
DITTO!! What you said!
He gets my support if he is the nominee. Otherwise, he has competition. But I will not vote for a leftist.
Translation: Conservatives should also ignore Guiliani’s postion on “gay marriage”.
Yo Rudy, don’t forget the gun issue also.
Not in a million years, dumbo. Maybe you don’t think that killing babies is a significant issue, but we do.
Great mids think alike, huh?
Rudy, what about the right to keep and bear arms? What about restoring Federalism? What about reimposing the limits to Federal power as required by the Constitution? What about deconstructing the Unconstitutional New Deal and Great Society? What about eliminating the income tax?
darn. I was abandoning him over immigration. Now I’m torn.
But as far as I'm concerned Giuliani danced on the graves of all those folks for money. And that makes me ill. So that's the main reason I'd not vote for him.
Oh, plus he dumped on his own kids, his wife and seems to like to dress up as a broad at the drop of a hat. And ugly broad too....
I won’t abandon Rudy over this issue but I long ago abandoned McCain over immigration.
Up Yours!
Excatly at the same time. Jinx! You’re it!
Just watch, R*O*O*T*Y!
How about we abandon you because you are a Rino? Because you pander to illegals and gays? Because you dine with deviants and the elites that sell out this country every day? Because you want my gun? Because we want a head banging take no prisoners conservative for a change that wont dress in drag?
>> Rudy Giuliani Says GOP Voters Shouldn’t Abandon Him Over Abortion
Fetus says Rudy shouldn’t abandon new life.
Go ahead, you can abandon him over immigration. I’ll cover for you and “abandon” him over abortion and NAMBLA.
We already have the “abandon him over gun grabbing” covered in spades. :)
50 million dead babies can’t be overlooked, Rooty.
And another 3 to 4 thousand were brutally killed today by your Margaret Sanger-loving political fellow travelers at NARAL and Planned Barrenhood.
You’ll get a vote from me about the time they get an NHL franchise in Sheol.
There are plenty of other reasons to abandon him.
Too late Roody-poo
I’m no longer a GOP voter. And bush and the other RINOs are to blame.
Too late.
It’s not just abortion that I couldn’t vote for him over, its gays, guns, judicial nominees (he really has no idea what a ‘strict constructionist’ jurist is going by his 1st debate preformance), taxes, big-government, ect..
Never vote for Guliani (or other RINOS) like McCain, Romney, ect!
No, Rudy, we don’t expect to agree on EVERYTHING, but the life issue is... kinda important? kinda prerequisite to everything else we discuss, since without our right to life there IS nothing else to discuss. Understood?
I will. Let Hilly take the blame for flushing the country, not someone with an R after his name, who isn’t a Republican anyway.
Ditto.
He shouldn't abandon his career just to curry favor with liberal baby killers.
Or, maybe he could have Linda Tripp's old job in Department of Defense (DOD).
That account has been banned or suspended.
BWAH HA HA HA HA !!!!!
If we can just do the same thing to his candidacy.
We just REALLY like Fred right now thankyou!
That may be the dumbest thing anyone could ever say. WTF is that supposed to mean?
I hold views and say things that I can't even convince myself that they make sense or are believable. In other words, I'll say anything to get elected and there is no way that even I know whether I'm telling the truth or not.
He probably just forgot.
Sorry ROODY you precious moments of fame are almost over.
Giuliani’s confident front is a facade. He is getting desperate because his candidacy is just spinning its wheels.
Dear Rudy,
When you have reached the point where you are lecturing the voters on what they should or shouldn’t judge you, it’s over. Hang it up.
Thank you,
Your Base.
I’m starting to think he’s really stupid.
Here he is, in front of an ostensibly religious and pro-life audience. He had a great opportunity to expound on one of his Twelve Commitments. He could have explained in detail how he intends to REDUCE ABORTIONS if he’s elected.
And yet he didn’t do it.
I could come to one of three conclusions about this behavior. One, he has no intention of doing anything at all to reduce abortions, he’s just pandering, and badly at that. Two, he worries more about losing Democratic support in the general if he deviates even the tiniest bit from the NARAL camp, than he does about winning the support he needs from Republicans in the primary.
Three, he just chickened out.
LOL... OK, I'll never vote for Rudy because of his proven anti-gun positions.
Well, That was easy!
How about amnesty, can we not support you over that? How about the 2A? How about embryonic stem cells? How about any of the 100 Liberal positions you have taken and tried to massage into conservative values to win this nom?
G.W.B. has taught us a valuable lesson. I’m not interested in getting screwed again. No Liberals on this ticket.
I’ll be a GOP voter until after the primary.
It will probably be my last primary, though.
Ghouliani is a Pro-Abort Pro-Sodomite Anti-2nd Amendment cross-dressing liberal GOP freak impostor. That sounds like name-calling but sadly it’s just the facts.
He’s also a CINO and should be formally and publicly excommunicated...from the Church and the Party.
“Our right to choose someone besides Rudy” is must reading IMO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856162/posts
Rudy is a Leftist.
Sorry Rudy, the GOP Conservatives are aborting you.
Okay. I'll abandon him over gun control, then.
I have yet to figure out a single conservative position that Rudy has. And it’s not the WOT because there are liberals who support that too.
That so wrong on many level don’t pick old lady who yell HELP I fallen I can’t get up
BAD MONK BAD ROFL
No problem!
I’ll pick another liberal stance that alienates me.
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