"A big-government, pro-abortion pol from NYC, who can't deliver his state to the Republican column, comes South. Save your cash, Rudy. Southerners deal with the slickest pols from infancy, and you won't fool them into thinking you're a conservative."
I agree. He won't win over the south, or the religious right.
Rudy is even pro-PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION, and against our 2nd amendment rights.
If Rudy is the presidential candidate, I will vote third party.
I worry about what kind of SCOTUS and circuit and Federal court picks Rudy would have when he is pro-SPECIAL rights for gays, pro-abortion, including partial birth abortion, and wants limited restriction on our 2nd amendment rights.
I am well aware of his strengths, but his weaknesses far outweigh his strengths, for a social conservative, and strongly pro-2nd amendment rights person (like me).
http://www.rnclife.org/faxnotes/2000/may00/00-05-05.html
Republican Big-Wigs Support Pro-Abortion Event in NY
Pro-abortion Governor George Pataki and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who also supports unrestricted abortion, are co-chairs of the 2000 Choice Award Presentation to be held on May 30 at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City. The event is sponsored by the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition, a group that is campaigning for the removal of the pro-life plank from the Republican National Platform.
http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock200503010743.asp
Giuliani is a pro-choice Republican who is friendlier to gay rights than to gun rights. This is hemlock to most conservatives. He will struggle to attract Republican primary voters without soothing them on these matters.
Giuliani could start by approaching the middle ground on abortion. Rejecting partial-birth abortion (as even Daschle did), promoting parental notification for minors, and advocating adult waiting periods might encourage socio-cons to reconsider Giuliani.
On PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION:
http://www.ontheissues.org/Rudy_Giuliani.htm
Pro-choice; no ban on partial-birth abortions. (Dec 1999)
"If Rudy is the presidential candidate, I will vote third party."
Why don't you come right out and say you would cast your vote to put the Clintons back in the White House? Voting Third Party is just a euphemism.