The Conservative Case Against Rudy Giuliani
by John Hawkins
Posted Aug 30, 2006 Rudy Giuliani, a contender for the presidency in 2008, is receiving an inordinate amount of positive attention. That's quite understandable since Rudy is charismatic, did a great job on the campaign trail for President Bush in 2004, and his phenomenal performance after 9/11 was much appreciated. However, likeable or not, having Rudy as the GOP's candidate in 2008 would be a big mistake. Here's a short, but sweet primer on some of Rudy's many flaws.
Rudy's Strong Pro-Abortion Stance
As these comments from a 1989 conversation with Phil Donahue show, Rudy Giuliani is staunchly in favor of abortion:
"I've said that I'll uphold a woman's right of choice, that I will fund abortion so that a poor woman is not deprived of a right that others can exercise, and that I would oppose going back to a day in which abortions were illegal.Worse yet, Giuliani even supports partial birth abortion:
I do that in spite of my own personal reservations. I have a daughter now; if a close relative or a daughter were pregnant, I would give my personal advice, my religious and moral views ...
Donahue: Which would be to continue the pregnancy.
Giuliani: Which would be that I would help her with taking care of the baby. But if the ultimate choice of the woman - my daughter or any other woman - would be that in this particular circumstance [if she had] to have an abortion, I'd support that. I'd give my daughter the money for it."
"I'm pro-choice. I'm pro-gay rights,Giuliani said. He was then asked whether he supports a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortions. "No, I have not supported that, and I don't see my position on that changing," he responded." -- CNN.com, "Inside Politics" Dec 2, 1999It's bad enough that Rudy is so adamantly pro-abortion, but consider what that could mean when it comes time to select Supreme Court Justices. Does the description of Giuliani that you've just read make you think he's going to select an originalist like Clarence Thomas, who would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade -- or does it make you think he would prefer justices like Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy who'd leave Roe v. Wade in place?
His thoughts on the gay-marriage amendment? "I don't think you should run a campaign on this issue," he told the Daily News earlier this month. "I think it would be a mistake for anybody to run a campaign on it -- the Democrats, the president, or anybody else."Here's more from the New York Daily News:
"Rudy Giuliani came out yesterday against President Bush's call for a ban on gay marriage.Although Rudy may grudgingly say he doesn't support gay marriage (and it would be political suicide for him to do otherwise), where he really stands on the issue is an open question.
The former mayor, who Vice President Cheney joked the other night is after his job, vigorously defended the President on his post-9/11 leadership but made clear he disagrees with Bush's proposal to rewrite the Constitution to outlaw gays and lesbians from tying the knot.
"I don't think it's ripe for decision at this point," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"I certainly wouldn't support [a ban] at this time," added Giuliani..."
"While McCain has taken heat for his support of comprehensive immigration reform, Rudy is every bit as pro-immigration as McCain - if not more so. On the O'Reilly Factor last week Giuliani argued for a "practical approach" to immigration and cited his efforts as Mayor of New York City to "regularize" illegal immigrants by providing them with access to city services like public education to "make their lives reasonable." Giuliani did say that "a tremendous amount of money should be put into the physical security" needed to stop the flow of illegal immigrants coming across the border, but his overall position on immigration is essentially indistinguishable from McCain's."That's bad enough. But, as Michelle Malkin has revealed, under Giuliani, New York was an illegal alien sanctuary and "America's Mayor" actually sued the federal government in an effort to keep New York City employees from having to cooperate with the INS:
"When Congress enacted immigration reform laws that forbade local governments from barring employees from cooperating with the INS, Mayor Rudy Giuliani filed suit against the feds in 1997. He was rebuffed by two lower courts, which ruled that the sanctuary order amounted to special treatment for illegal aliens and were nothing more than an unlawful effort to flaunt federal enforcement efforts against illegal aliens. In January 2000, the Supreme Court rejected his appeal, but Giuliani vowed to ignore the law."If you agree with the way that Nancy Pelosi and Company deal with illegal immigration, then you'll find the way that Rudy Giuliani tackles the issue to be right down your alley.
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In a nutshell!
Rudy can run but he will not win the nomination. Too much history is out there and readily available.
If past sexual indiscretions are a disqualification, there won't be many candidates.
Everybody knows his personal history and nobody cares.
Compared to the Monica madness, he's a choirboy.
There could well be three Supreme Court retirings between 2009 and 2013. A President Guiliani would nominate and fight for the confirmation of solid conservatives.
The Congress could pass very restrictive gun control laws. President Giuliani would firmly veto them.
Pro-abortion laws and rulings will crop up like mushrooms in those years. President Giuliani will move swiftly against them and nominate judges who will do likewise.
Does anyone doubt it?
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Yeah...
RIIIIiiiiiight.
That's ALL this liberal northeast-corridor RINO has going for him.
It's going to be tough for campaign journalists covering a year of this action vacuum. Sportswriters at least have things that matter to somebody happening almost every day. Even Wall Street pandits have some economic theory to flavor their insipid daily happenings.
....and its ok that Heir Klinton has 'personal life problems' and we should over look those, but when another person has them it isn't ok?????
Of all the books in the Reagan Library, there is only one that isn't devoted to Reagan or presidential ships and planes. And that book is Giuliani's book on leadership.
Giuliani worked as the #3 man in the Reagan Justice Department and Reagan greatly admired Rudy.
Giuliani received the Medal of Freedom from Ronald Reagan.
Snerdley, stop the tape... (in Limbaugh voice)
No evacuation plan after the first attack on the World Trade Center?
The primary emergency response protocol of "isolate and deny entry" was not followed. It lead to hundreds of needless deaths. Leadership my eye.
The Pentagon followed the protocol. So did the Murrah federal building response team in Oklahoma City.
(I do have the professional certifications as an incident commander in first responder situations.)
May have issues? BUHAHAHAHA, to say the least.
Oh Spiff - is it possible for you to answer a question? Or do you just spam and insult? How do you feel you are doing so far in preventing abortion nation-wide?
A pile of turds is a pile of turds no matter how the Rinos running the Republiucan party try to put a flower on the pile.
Being pro choice, pro gay, anti gun, to list a few, and I personally won't overlook any of those things! I know adultery is a "personal" problem but it's one that I won't overlook, because it's a reflection on his character. They are all deal breakers to me.
I dont want a wanna-be President that was good about cleaning-up after a terrorist attack here at home.......I want one that prevents the next one from occuring!