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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But I suspect it won't.
They had no problem engaging in subterfuge and duplicity to shill their guy while attacking actual conservatives. So they’re a natural fit.
It's epidemic. 20th CENTURY U.S. ABORTION LAW WAS NEVER ENFORCED AGAINST WOMEN; it was enforced against PROVIDERS. GOt that? Providers! Not Women!
Good grief.
You're right that it is epidemic. Giuliani himself keeps repeatedly mischaracterizing the pro-life message as wanting to put women in jail. In fact, he implied in the Laura Ingraham interview (that went so poorly for him) that pro-life people want to put people in jail for simply having different views on the matter of abortion. And I quote:
"I should not be the one to determine that for them because I think that people of different views, different consciences here, who come to different views, I think in America you can personally oppose something and at the same time recognize in a pluralistic society other people, just as strongly, view it differently and you can't have the whole...you can't put them in jail for it."
Giuliani Interview - Laura Ingraham Show - 9 May 2007 (Segment 1:17-1:37)
No, let's attack the malignant cells in the tumor, not the healthy tissue. Let's go after those who seek to profit from the misfortune of others.
Yes, I want you liberals to eat your own a year before the election. Therefore: DON'T VOTE FOR GIULIANI!
Oh well——try to understand that tearing down conservatives makes these abortion savages “feel” superior
It’s a common theme; we’re ignorant and backward, not enlightened and progressive enough to understand the “need” to back Rudy. Sound familiar? We usually hear that sort of argument from the out and out leftits. Even more ridiculous, the zotted (pre-zot) feigned outrage at being labaled liberal or leftist.
You're a nut.
Bump for post!
You're a liberal. I'd rather be a nut.
What would your opinion be of an alleged conservative who said, "This is not a big issue with me. I couldn’t care less what a candidate’s position is on slavery?"
A superb observation (I say this as the first FReeper to flatly state Gore is going to run on the Green Party ticket) and almost surely what Giuliette is relying on.
He doesn't give a damn about the pro-life South -- his handlers have convinced him he won't lose those to her, and that he's unbeatable in New York.
IF they're right, Madame Cankles can't win -- there's no electoral math where she can win. She could keep all of Kerry's BUT NY, and flip CO, NM, NV, IA, AND OH, and he would still win by 1 EV.
From my conservative POV, it's much easier and far less a danger to our Constitution to defeat Mme Cankles this way -- Fred Thompson hits the Rust Belt, flips WI & MI, keeps all the Bush states, and wins in a landslide. Amen.
I like the way you talk...
Then and only then will he be left alone.
“If you want us to all eat our own a year before the election, chant “don’t vote for Giuliani”.”
He’s not “our” own, He’s your own. You eat him!
Well, according to CNN’s crawling newstape yesterday, the Pope reiterated his position on those promoting and supporting abortion. If you’re Catholic and you do either of the above, you risk excommunication. Fat Teddy and Rudy, pay attention. Also, a vote for Kennedy and Rudy may earn you excommunication. Same bad news for doctors and nurses performing abortions. The Catholic Church hasn’t changed its views on this, but the Pope is repeating them loudly down in Brazil. (To cheering crowds, no doubt.) Forty million dead in the US. Mindboggling. Horrific. God is not happy.
You are woefully unaware of Constitutionalism, thus one wonders what brings you here.
You don't think we've planned for this? You, are a rube.
Within one state assembly/legislature cycle, along this order:
These legislatures are loaded with pro-life Democrats. NE is unicameral but also majority pro-life.
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