Rudy To Attend CPAC

The Politico ^ | 2/25/07

[areafiftyone]

February 24, 2007

Rudy To Attend CPAC

I reported a piece last month about how Rudy and McCain were skipping some conservative conferences.  One of the events I mentioned that they had not yet RSVP'd to is the Grandaddy Of Them All -- the Conservative Political Action Conference or CPAC.  

Turns out Rudy will attend CPAC.  He'll speak to the confab Friday.

[areafiftyone]

((((RUDY PING)))

[babaloo]

Why would he speak at a meeting of "TRUE CONSERVATIVES"??? Unless of course they aren't. Guess we'll have to wait for the haters to fill us in.

[PatrickF4]

I'll look forward to his dodging issues and well scripted answers to the tough questions he wants to avoid. If his answers continue to be of the "it doesn't matter" type, then we should ask - why should we vote for you if it doesn't matter???

[areafiftyone]

They are very worthy of ignoring. LOL!

[areafiftyone]

Then you shouldn't care one way or the other what he says or does so why are you on this post anyway?

[M. Thatcher]

CPAC IS A BUNCH OF RINOS

/s

[bonfire]

Too bad there is no "ignore" feature on FR.

[areafiftyone]

I wish there was believe me!

[areafiftyone]

LOL! I'm waiting for that. It will come soon.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Rudy really didn't have a choice. Skipping CPAC would've been the nail in his political coffin.

Attendees should politely listen to him speak, and ask him the tough questions later. When the smoke clears, I think Rudy will remain pro-abortion, pro-gun control, and won't address real fiscal matters such as entitlement programs and out-of-control government spending.

[BunnySlippers]

WOW, terrific! I'll be looking to see what kind of reception he will get!

[BunnySlippers]

Well, as you know, if you support a RINO, then you are a RINO. Or so I've heard. ;-)

[areafiftyone]

Oh really? And now you are the expert on Rudy? You are a Hunter person and never were a Rudy person.

[PatrickF4]

why are you on this post anyway? I want someone I can vote for on the Republican ticket, not a RINO like Giuliani.

[areafiftyone]

Okay then you have plenty of Hunter posts you don't have to go on Rudy posts.

[PatrickF4]

I din't know this was a zone restricted to the cheerleaders.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

You are a Hunter person and never were a Rudy person.

I supported Rudy extensively with the logic that his conservative fiscal record and his national security hawkishness would make up for his social liberal deficiencies, and that he would come around on abortion and the 2nd Amendment as the campaign went on.

Unfortunately, he hasn't. He has remained a stead-fast supporter of abortion and his hunting interpretation of the 2nd Amendment told me all I needed to know. Just another Rockefeller Republican who should be rejected in the GOP primaries.

[Spiff]

(((((STOP RUDY PING)))))

The most radically liberal Republican presidential candidate in the history of the known universe is going to attend CPAC to perform his travelling lie-and-deceive-and-pander-to-the-conservatives act. This can't go unchallenged. Is anyone on this list or reading this post attending CPAC or know anyone who is attending CPAC? If so, Rudy needs some FReeping. I've got some .PDF fliers that could be printed and distributed. Giuliani is used to having tight control on who can talk to him or ask questions at public events. We may find that this one is different and we could prepare some real zingers to throw at him to expose his liberalism. I've done this in the past with RINOs - prefacing the question with one of the RINO's own statements or actions that no matter how they answer, they come out looking like either a liberal ass or a lying liberal ass. If done right, this can really do some damage.

If you want on or off this Ping List, send me FReepmail

[Spiff]

Rudy Giuliani Supports Partial Birth Abortion...Does CPAC?

[GEORGE] WILL: Is your support of partial birth abortion firm?
Mayor GIULIANI: All of my positions are firm. I have strong viewpoints. I express them. And I--I do not think that it makes sense to be changing your position....
ABC News February 6, 2000

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TUCHMAN: Giuliani was then asked whether he supports a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortions, something Bush strongly supports.
GIULIANI: No, I have not supported that, and I don't see my position on that changing.
- CNN December 2, 1999

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BLITZER: If you were in the Senate and [President Clinton] vetoed, once again, the [ban on the] so-called partial-birth abortion procedure, you would vote against sustaining that against the -- in favor of the veto in other words, you would support the president on that.
GIULIANI: Yes. I said then that I support him, so I have no reason to change my mind about it.
BLITZER: All right. So the bottom line is that on a lot of these very sensitive issues whether on guns, abortion, patients' bill of rights, taxes, you are more in line with the president and by association, with Mrs. Clinton, than you are against them.
- CNN February 6, 2000

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MR. RUSSERT: A banning of late-term abortions, so-called partial-birth abortions--you're against that?

MAYOR GIULIANI: I'm against it in New York, because in New York...

MR. RUSSERT: Well, if you were a senator, would you vote with the president or against the president? [Note: President Clinton was in office in 2000]

MAYOR GIULIANI: I would vote to preserve the option for women. I think that choice is a very difficult one. It's a very, very--it's one in which people of conscious have very, very different opinions. I think the better thing for America to do is to leave that choice to the woman, because it affects her probably more than anyone else....

MR. RUSSERT: So you won't change your view on late-term abortion in order to get the Conservative Party endorsement?

MAYOR GIULIANI: It isn't just that. We shouldn't limit this to one issue. I'm generally not going to change my views
- NBC Meet the Press, February 6, 2000

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***Note: the version of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban that Giuliani opposed in 2000, that he said he supported Bill Clinton in vetoing the Republican-controlled Congress's legislation, contained the exception for the life of the mother that Rudy is now trying to pretend is a prerequisite for his support of it.

Rudy Giuliani Supports Partial Birth Abortion...Does CPAC?

[GEORGE] WILL: Is your support of partial birth abortion firm?
Mayor GIULIANI: All of my positions are firm. I have strong viewpoints. I express them. And I--I do not think that it makes sense to be changing your position....
ABC News February 6, 2000

---

TUCHMAN: Giuliani was then asked whether he supports a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortions, something Bush strongly supports.
GIULIANI: No, I have not supported that, and I don't see my position on that changing.
- CNN December 2, 1999

---

BLITZER: If you were in the Senate and [President Clinton] vetoed, once again, the [ban on the] so-called partial-birth abortion procedure, you would vote against sustaining that against the -- in favor of the veto in other words, you would support the president on that.
GIULIANI: Yes. I said then that I support him, so I have no reason to change my mind about it.
BLITZER: All right. So the bottom line is that on a lot of these very sensitive issues whether on guns, abortion, patients' bill of rights, taxes, you are more in line with the president and by association, with Mrs. Clinton, than you are against them.
- CNN February 6, 2000

---

MR. RUSSERT: A banning of late-term abortions, so-called partial-birth abortions--you're against that?

MAYOR GIULIANI: I'm against it in New York, because in New York...

MR. RUSSERT: Well, if you were a senator, would you vote with the president or against the president? [Note: President Clinton was in office in 2000]

MAYOR GIULIANI: I would vote to preserve the option for women. I think that choice is a very difficult one. It's a very, very--it's one in which people of conscious have very, very different opinions. I think the better thing for America to do is to leave that choice to the woman, because it affects her probably more than anyone else....

MR. RUSSERT: So you won't change your view on late-term abortion in order to get the Conservative Party endorsement?

MAYOR GIULIANI: It isn't just that. We shouldn't limit this to one issue. I'm generally not going to change my views
- NBC Meet the Press, February 6, 2000

---

***Note: the version of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban that Giuliani opposed in 2000, that he said he supported Bill Clinton in vetoing the Republican-controlled Congress's legislation, contained the exception for the life of the mother that Rudy is now trying to pretend is a prerequisite for his support of it.