[areafiftyone]

((((RUDY PING)))

[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???

[BunnySlippers]

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

[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

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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.

[don-o]

Well, well. That will be a sight to see!

[Vaquero]

I suggest that Rudy get some believable conservative dialog if he plans on addressing conservatives.....

His excuses for previous statements by him about abortion and 2nd amendment issues are lame, pathetic and very transparent.....and he dosent even make an attempt with the illegals issue.

.........he cannot win the nomination with his baggage...

[unsycophant]

Great news!

[RadioCirca1970]

That's it!I am finished with the GOP, I am staying home, I am not voting!
If Rudy even dares to talk to conservatives, I am not Voting! He isnt Conservative enough to even make the case to us conservatives. You shouldn't be allowed to talk to us conservatives, unless you are provably 100% conservative, never had a liberal thought in your life. Besides, everyone knows that Rudy is Gay and performs abortions on the weekends...just ask Phyllis Schlafly/sarcasm....

[DKNY]

Thanks for the update...

[BonnieJ]

These threads are ALL the same....same spam, same comments, same participants. I can't imagine why anyone would read them any more, nothing enlightening emerges from them, but I do appreciate the Rudy news. I remain a Rudy supporter, and will vote for the candidate chosen by Republicans in the primaries. I also am not thrilled with the others running (including the supposedly "only real conservative") but do know the necessity of defeating Hillary, Obama or any other Dem they choose.

[Fierce Allegiance]

It's a conference for conservatives, why is he bothering?

[bamabaseballmom]

Excellent news! It would be nice if this were to be televised on CSPAN.

[hosepipe]

Evidently, CPAC, isn't..

[Ciexyz]

Should be interesting to read what he says there.

[HitmanLV]

I wonder if he will perform an abortion at the event, as he has been routinely called an 'abortionist' by the FR 'die or die' braintrust.

[nutmeg]

Looking forward to seeing all or some of you at this year's CPAC. We will be driving down to DC sometime Tuesday afternoon/evening.

We will most likely be in the Omni Shoreham hotel bar on Saturday after CPAC adjourns. Hope to see you there or around the venue March 1-3! :o)

nutmeg & zelig

CPAC 2007 agenda so far: CPAC 2007 agenda