Dear Blackirish,
"Even if Guliani promised to ...and I think he would keep his promise...to appoint judges in the mold of Roberts and Alito they would not care."
It isn't that we wouldn't care. We just wouldn't believe.
Mr. Giuliani's record is so completely all-abortion all-the-time, it's a basic right, he'd pay for his own hypothetical daughter's own abortion, believes so strongly that it's a fundamental right that he wants the GOVERNMENT to pay for the abortions of poor women, that nothing short of a total conversion experience, with weeping and gnashing of teeth, rending of garments, covering with ashes, recounting of his coming to Jesus, and absolute repudiation of his evil ways would quite convince. Even then...
I admire Mr. Giuliani for his forthright (even if quite extreme) stand on the issue of abortion.
However, it would be a little late in the day for him to try to make a modest course correction by suggesting that he would appoint folks to the Supreme Court that would overturn Roe. It would be seen for the cynical act that it would be.
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Neither one of them will do well in the deep south. I'd bet on Newt Gingrich first. I'll bet Algore thought he would take his home state of Tennessee in 2000. Too bad, they voted their guns. First time that has happened in about 80 years....that a favorite son hasn't swept his own state. I'll bet Algore thought he would take West-By-God Virginia, too. THAT would have given him the Presidency. West Virginia hasn't gone Republican since the early 1900's. BUT....the first day of Deer Season is a public school holiday! West Virginia voted their guns, too. Rudy will be perceived as the carpet bagger from Nuuuu YAWK and McLAME will be seen for being the sellout RINO he is! Southerners won't trust either one. Can't win without the solid south. What makes the solid south solid? Social Conservatism.