Posted on 04/23/2007 4:08:19 PM PDT by wagglebee
In February's poll, the former New York City mayor had 39 percent of the support of Republican voters but that dropped to 35 percent in the April 17-18 survey.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, who opposes abortion but supports embryonic stem cell research, has dropped as well. He's slid from 19 percent in February to 16 percent in April.
The leading candidates have dropped because Republican voters are shifting to more conservative presidential candidates or others whose names have been bandied about as possible GOP nominees.
Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who recently changed his position on abortion, moved up from 6 percent in February to 10 percent in the April Fox News poll.
Meanwhile Newt Gingrich and Fred Thompson, who have not announced a bid, jumped from 7 percent to 9 percent and from not being in the poll to 8 percent, respectively.
Looking at other candidates, ex-Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson moved up from 2 to 4 percent, pro-life Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback stayed the same at two percent as did pro-life Rep. Duncan Hunter. Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas Gov. had one percent but no other candidates reached one percent in the poll.
Some 11 percent of Republicans were unsure.
Last week, Giuliani came under fire for telling pro-life advocates to get over the abortion issue.
"Our party has to get beyond issues like that," he told the Des Moines Register newspaper.
He also appeared to indicate that the Republican Party won't gain supporters if it retains its pro-life position.
"Our party is going to grow, and we are going to win in 2008 if we are a party characterized by what we're for, not if we're a party that's known for what we're against," he said.
Those comments followed the flap on abortion funding.
Well, if you do, the concept that age brings wisdom is clearly faulty. You have an utterly simplistic view of politics and the election.
“Is Guilaini perfect? Not by a long shot. “
Guiliani not only isn’t perfect, he’s the political ENEMY of conservatives just like Hillary ius.
” I’ve surveyed the field and surmised that a certain mayor from New York represents my party’s best shot at keeping the White House from the grasping clutches of the Hildebeast. To me that is the most important consideration.”
If the best way to save the Republican Party is to nominate a man who stands in opposition to the party platform... Regardless, you think this is about keeping Hillary out of the White House. That this is the only goal. That’s not it at all. The goal is to keep *liberals* out of the White House. Rudy, politically and ideologically, is on the same side as Hillary. He’s even said so.
You “surveyed the field” and decided that the guy the base of the party is least represented by is the solution. That we have to become Demcrats to “win”. WE (conservatives) don’t win that way. History teaches us that the GOP doesn’t win that way either.
Pretty weak analysis from a supposed “old guy”. If the Republican Party decides to go left one more step, they’ll do so without my approval (vote), time, or money.
Sometimes, my own stupidity amazes even me. Must be an art that I have cultivated.
I agree that it’s a conundrum — but it belies Giuliani’s “tough on terrorism” image, doesn’t it? At the very least, he should have spoken about the war that Islamofascists were waging against us, and made the point that this does not mean all Muslims are our enemies. Rudy denied that these attacks were part of a war at all. You can’t wage war if you can’t name your enemy. His approach seemed to have been about what the ‘toon’s was.
At this moment, millions of conservatives across the country are finding their ___(starts with the letter “s” and rhymes with “yack”)__, AND their brains.
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