Posted on 05/09/2007 7:17:06 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
After months of giving ambiguous signals on abortion, Rudolph W. Giuliani is planning to offer a forthright affirmation of his support for abortion rights in public forums, television appearances and interviews in the coming days, despite potential consequences among some conservative voters already wary of his views, aides said yesterday.
At the same time, Mr. Giuliani’s campaign — seeking to accomplish the unusual task of persuading the Republican Party to nominate an abortion rights supporter as its presidential candidate — is eyeing a path to the nomination that would try to de-emphasize the early states in which abortion opponents wield a great deal of influence. Instead they would focus on the so-called mega-primary of Feb. 5, in which voters in states like California, New York and New Jersey are likely to be more receptive to Mr. Giuliani’s social views than voters in states like Iowa and South Carolina. They said that approach became more appealing after Florida, another state they said would be receptive to Mr. Giuliani, voted last week to move its primary forward to the end of January.
The shift in emphasis by Mr. Giuliani comes as his campaign has struggled to deal with the fallout from the first Republican presidential candidate debate in which he gave a halting and apparently contradictory responses to questions about his support for abortion rights. Mr. Giuliani’s aides were concerned both because it opened him up to a new round of criticism from abortion critics — who have never been happy with the prospect of a Republican presidential candidate who supports abortion rights — while threatening to undercut his image as a tough-talking iconoclast who does not equivocate on tough issues.
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This is an opportunity for the conservative pundits to turn on Rudy. If not, they’ve been lying about their convictions. (are you listening S. Hannity?)
I wonder how he expects to win, since that will involve more than half the states!
He will use every trick in the book---voter fraud tops the list.
Well he is in for a challenge as the liberals use voter fraud as their 'primary colors' method of winning elections. (Oh and for those uninformed the words 'primary colors' is the name of a book and movie describing Clintons methodology!!)
From your mouth to God's Ear, Mr. Jim.
Reminds me of that movie about that ghost ship dead in the water and nothing on board.
Rooty is starting to resemble Howard Dean more and more every day.
See my new tag line!
Other Freepers have been very busy researching these connections over the last several months.
See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1831003/posts?page=35#17
( Posts 17 to 29)
Its time that Rudy's candidacy is destroyed, utterly, by exposing his Mafia Connections to the general public. The sooner this is accomplished, the better. It provides the true socio-political context in which Giulliani attempted to have Homeland Security run by Kerik, a direct scion of the Gambino family of New Jersey.
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Interestingly, Giuliani had a 'Vulnerability Study' prepared for his 1993 Mayor's race. The results were so telling that he had the report destroyed-- sensitive information included reports of his "raucous social life" during his first marriage as well as his relations to members of the mob. Giuliani staff were also concerned about the "weirdness factor"-- perhaps most directly due to his marriage to his first cousin (further reading in Barrett's Rudy! An Investigative Biography).
JUST A SMALL SAMPLING of his connections to mafia organizations, corrupt deals, appointments of criminal and defamed friends and other scandals follow below. A few hours of research will reveal a great more information-- more than is necessary for this article:
FATHER AND UNCLE CONVICTED FOR MOB CRIMES
Giuliani's father was a convicted hold-up man who served time in an upstate prison and was later employed as an enforcer for a Mafia loan shark operation. When the book was first released Giuliani denied and later admitted it was true. According to the book, a number of his other relatives were also in the Mafia besides the uncles who were firemen and police officers that he proudly refers to in public speeches.
PRIMARY RESOURCE: Rudy! An Investigative Biography by Wayne Barrett
http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/060407_giuliani_mobster.html
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Good Fellas.
First, it's one thing for squishy voters to go for a generally pro-choice guy like Bill Clinton. But Giuliani is not moderate on abortion. He's for public funding, he's donated to Planned Parenthood, etc. -- you can't get more liberal on that issue, short of China's one-child policy.
Second, your bizarre assumption is that abortion is the *only* issue that's problematic for Rudy. Gun issues, freedom issues, the WOT, etc. will alienate other constituencies.
Beautiful———More people are killed each day in the U.S. by abortion than were killed on 9/11 ! (TommyDale’s new tag line)
I didn’t realize that EACH DAY in the U.S, 3,700 babies are aborted. Worldwide, the number is 46 million per year!! (1996 statistics)
http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html
Actually his strategy may be to present himself as the only alternative to all the other candidates in the field. Everyone else is attempting to portray themselves as pro-life and anti-abortion. I think he thinks that if he comes across as pro-abortion, that he can pick up all of the liberal republican and RINO votes in the primaries and walk away with 25 to 30% of the primary votes and if the other 7 or 8 candidates take in 10% each, he can walk away with the nomination.
I think he is running away from the base because he knows that the base (Family oriented religious conservatives) will NEVER support him. What surprises me, however, is how many family oriented religious conservatives actually do support him. Maybe this will change their minds. Maybe not.
The family tree of Eric Rudolph.......
I read a few days ago that 90 percent of women would procure an abortion if they knew that they had a child on the way with a deformity. Maybe that’s the clientele that Giuliani is wooing.
You just went around the bend with that one, pilgrim - trying to paint the entire pro-life movement with the Eric Rudolph brush.
In both 1976 and 1996 there were conservative planks in the GOP platforms disavowed by Ford and Dole both years. In 1864, General McClellan disavowed his own Democrat platform which blasted that war as a failure and urged a negotiated settlement. The once popular Edwin W. Edwards of Louisiana, I believe, said that his support for Jimmy Carter was based on the notion that no one had read the Democrat platform, would read it, and it would never be adopted any way.
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