[Spiff]

If you had done your homework, (thank you PhiKapMom, nopardons) you would have discovered that when Giuliani appointed judges in New York City, his hands were tied. Since 1978, merit selection has been used to select judges of New York City's criminal and family courts and to fill mid-term vacancies on the city's civil court. Established by executive order, the mayor's advisory committee on the judiciary evaluates applicants and nominates highly qualified candidates. The mayor may not appoint a judge who has not been nominated by the committee. All based on merit selection and all come from an advisory committee which means in liberal NY the chances of finding a conservative judge based on merit would be nil to non-existent

In the very thread that those two posted the info about the selection committee, I debunked their claims with more information from the NYC archives which demonstrated that the MAYOR selects the 19 members of the judicial selection committee. I even had a press release where Giuliani was bragging about who he selected as a judge. If you need me to give you a link, I will. But I destroyed their weak argument that Giuliani's hands were tied. Maybe you should pay better attention.

As for his views on Partial Birth Abortion, he made that pretty clear in the interviews that I excerpted and posted. The Wolf Blitzer question and his response are the most damning to your contention (and his) that Rudy does not support Partial Birth Abortion.

You guys are SO wrong about Rudy and we keep offering proof after proof after proof but nothing seems to get through your thick skulls.

[Spiff]

Whoops - I meant that the George Will question and response was the most damning in that it demonstrated the Giuliani actually SUPPORTS partial birth abortion.

[Mia T]

Yes, please post the link.

BTW, if PhiKapMom's research is flawed, then I revert to my original hypothesis, namely, that the appointments were payback of debts acquired sloshing through the NYC political scene for all those years. Let's be real, shall we? Unless a Republican who served for Reagan befriends NY democrats, he ain't gettin' elected to nuttin' in NY.

And I believe I already answered the partial birth abortion point.

That said, I don't think you get it. Giuliani's personal view on abortion--indeed, abortion per se-- is NOT the dispositive issue for me.

My thinking follows.
Note that Giuliani's position on abortion is nowhere to be found in my argument. Indeed, I explicitly deny ¹ that his ideology (other than his strict constructionism) is dispositive:

Check out what the wonderful conservative warrior, R. Emmett Tyrrell has to say.

I hope and pray that Tyrrell is right, that all factions will come to their senses and unite in the end, around Rudy [or, I would add, whichever candidate gets the nod].

The 'logic' of those refusing to vote for Rudy:

Rudy is a too 'liberal' 'New Yorker' so they will place their de facto vote for missus clinton, a Stalinist New Yorker, albeit fake, (fake New Yorker, not fake Stalinist), who

• as one-half of the 'twofer,' is the proximate cause of 9/11,
  
• is an abuser of women in her own right,
  
• is avidly pro-abortion,
  
• would nominate justices in the mold of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
  
• would resume clinton sale of our nuclear secrets and mineral rights to the enemy,
  
• would sic the IRS and the clinton 'secret police' on all opponents and critics,
  
• would nationalize healthcare,
  
• would decimate the military,
  
• would reinstitute the clinton policy of ignoring of terrorism,
  
• would raise taxes...
  
• even as she and her rapist husband rake in millions in quid pro quos for their slush fund foundation,
  
• would confiscate profits, end capitalism, if she could, etc., etc.

 

 

It does the conservative cause no good to become petulant and self-destructive.

Do conservatives really want

• a Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court instead of an Alito, Roberts or Scalia?
  
• marginalization, if not worse, of their religious beliefs?
  
• a return to the amorality, immorality and corruption of the clinton years?
  
• and G-d knows what depth of failure in the War on Terror?

I find it hard to believe that those people aren't able to discern the difference between Giuliani and clinton. Frankly, if true, it is frightening.

goto:

STALINIST RISING?
HILLARY CLINTON ABUSE OF POWER
(WHERE IS THE UNREDACTED BARRETT REPORT ANYWAY?)

I am advocating for Giuliani not because of his ideology. I am advocating for him because I believe he possesses the qualities that this country desperately needs in these perilous times... and because I believe he, unlike all of the others, will actually win.

The other night, I heard a man who is not perfect, but a man of rare intelligence, humility, warmth, competence, strength and leadership.

We will be fortunate, indeed, and our babies, born and unborn, living and not yet imagined, will be infinitely safer, if he is our next president.

---

P.S. Want to see wholesale abortion for real? Deny the nomination to the only R who would trounce clinton, or alternatively, place your de facto vote for clinton in the general election.

(Get it yet?)