dangus wrote: "I want to know that any latest positions which seem he has remained a conservative at heart (i.e., promising to nominate a candidate like Roberts, Alito or Scalia) are because he has decided that being a conservative is the way to rule as President, not just the way to get the Republican nomination."
the problem is, Rudy want s conservatives to take him at his word on appointing originalist judges. His record is one of appointing mostly liberals to the bench. According to the LA Times, hardly a conservative newspaper, some of the appointment Rudy made to the bench are real eye-openers:
"But there is no question that Giuliani's appointment record has already drawn concern from some conservatives.
One judge approved by Giuliani, Rosalyn Richter, had been executive director of a gay rights organization, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, before being named to the bench. After her initial appointment by former Mayor David N. Dinkins, Richter changed the questions asked of potential jurors to be more welcoming to gay and lesbian couples. She was later reappointed by Giuliani.
Another judge, appointed by Giuliani to the criminal bench in 1996, Dora Irizarry, has called herself pro-choice and was later elevated to the federal bench with strong support from Democratic Sens. Charles E. Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.
A family court judge reappointed by Giuliani, Sheldon Rand, was excoriated on the conservative-leaning New York Post editorial page last week for ruling that city funds be used to pay for a sex-change operation for an indigent New York resident."
And a fourth judge, Paula J. Hepner, appointed initially by Dinkins in 1995, issued a ruling that allowed a lesbian to adopt her partner's child. Four years later, Giuliani reappointed Hepner to New York's family court bench. Hepner was subsequently married to another woman in a ceremony in Canada.
See, now I have to go back to defending Rudy.
He simply did not get to nominate judges in NYC. Any article which implies that he did is either deceitful, or mindlessly echoing the attack dogs. A committee of uber-liberals would submit three names of NYC judges, almost all of whom are going to be left-wing extremists, and Rudy has to pick from among those. I'll be impressed that Rudy was favoring liberals when I see the list of conservative judges nominated by the committee which Rudy failed to appoint. Until then, please don't be fooled by the scurrilous garbage.