Giuliani to bring campaign to S.C. (Abortion Views Will be Questioned)

News 4 Carolina ^ | April 5, 2007

[Livin_large]

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is scheduled to campaign Thursday in South Carolina and questions about abortion may follow him to all three stops.

The presidential campaign visits come not long after a CNN interview where Giuliani said he personally opposes abortion, but supports public funding of abortion of poor women as long as it is law, defending a speech he made in 1989.

While Republicans in South Carolina may oppose abortion by degrees -- for instance allowing abortions in certain circumstances, such as a mother's health, rape or incest -- there's little room on public financing, said Oran Smith, the Palmetto Family Council's executive director.

"That's usually one of the first thing off the list when you talk about things related to abortion," Smith said.

Giuliani has a news conference planned Thursday morning at the Statehouse with other stops in Charleston and North Myrtle Beach.

The abortion issue doesn't bother all of Giuliani's supporters. "I'm really for the whole package. I feel like I'm comfortable being for him," said Rosemary Byerly of Inman.

But others think Giuliani's comments on abortion may be tough to overcome in South Carolina, which plans to hold the first Republican presidential primary next winter, said Alexia Newman, a state Republican Party first vice chairwoman who runs the Carolina Pregnancy Center.

"I don't understand how he can be for public funding of abortion. He has told people he's pro-life," said Newman, who listened to Giuliani tell the state Republican executive committee a few months ago that he would appoint judges who want a strict interpretation of the Constitution -- something they interpreted at the time as leaning toward undoing the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.

Giuliani position won't sit well in such a conservative state, said Clemson University political scientist Dave Woodard.

"He's toast," Woodard said. "I think it's going to be really hard for him to overcome this in South Carolina."

[narses]

While he was the “Republican Mayor” of New York City he appointed more than 60 men and women to the Civil, Criminal, and Family Court benchs. In all of those judicial appointment only two were Republican.

All of his other judical appointments were either registered Liberals or registered Democrats. As the “Republican Mayor” he had appointment power over more than 70 full commissioners in more than 50 City agencies, yet at no time during his administration did REPUBLICANS account for more than 10% of those appointments.

He even appointed Chuck Schumers wife as the City’s Department of Transportation Commissioner.


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“And even as we grieve for those who lost their lives, and our hearts and prayers go out to the victims and their loved ones, we may be able to find some sort of meaning in this tragedy by using it as a catalyst to revive national gun control efforts.”
Rudolph Giuliani

[showme_the_Glory]

Watch for some serious backpeddling and flipfloppin or he’ll be roadkill.

[Savage Beast]

"Um...from his viewpoints, Rudy is *part* of the psychotic left!"

Maybe. But there's a difference between being a little on the nutty side and being a stark raving mad dangerous lunatic.

[cowboyway]

Not from this South Carolinian.

Nor this one.

The sad truth is, if Rudy gets the nomination, this will probably be the first presidential election that I will sit out since I was eligible to vote.

[pillut48]

“A little on the nutty side”?!

Rudy’s gone way past this point, IMO.