Posted on 05/11/2007 11:17:53 AM PDT by Petronski
HOUSTON -- Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Friday urged conservatives to look past his support for abortion rights, arguing that his divergence on the issue should not disqualify him from being the party's GOP nominee.
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Describing his belief that abortion was "morally wrong," Giuliani said he has opposed it all his life. But he said he believes the decision should ultimately be left to individuals and that their decisions should be respected.
"In a country like ours ... I believe you have to respect their viewpoint and give them a level of choice. I would grant women the right to make that choice," he said.
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Thank you. Rudy has got to have had hordes of people come up to him over the last couple of decades telling him that abortion is no big deal to them. He has apparently concluded that most Republican voters feel this way, surely he's heard it in every big city he's visited.
It's not the only thing he's out of touch with America on.
“It’s not the only thing he’s out of touch with America on.”
This is a critical nuance! Not every politician is able to foray from state to federal management.
I’d say it’s crucially astute of you to note that he’s not perhaps as able to make the jump as he’d like people to believe!
Exactly so. You and your pro-death buddies run for public office, and we turn out en masse to vote for somebody else.
I’m not sure its a ‘lie’ as much as a conundrum for him.
Don’t construe that as a ‘defense’ btw. Just what I’m thinking as I watch him continue to squirm.
I think Guiliani is a decent man. I just don’t trust him enough to vote for him in the Presidential election cycle.
As I’ve noted before, when Rudy gets bored, he gets himself into trouble - personally and professionally and politically.
As we’ve been seeing for quite some time.
Yeah its always refreshing to hear a candidate come straight out and say. “yes, Im for a womans right to scrape life out of her uterus”..I mean its written plain as day there..in the..Constitution..!?!? right?.../s (of course-regards)
The smell of pandering approaches the stench of a cesspool ...
"I would grant women the right to make that choice," he said.
nail...coffin...
Is he the Dem’s stealth candidate?
Is he. Or is he just typically McCain and obtuse on the subject?
Last time I knew, his answers to all the right questions placed him as pro-choice. I think Giuliani’s candor is just providing McCain with a smokescreen.
Well there is only one way he would get mine ,and thats if its between He and Hillary or Obama.
Better a half-assed liberal than a full fledged card carrying one.
I’m still waiting for Fred.
Please double-check my excerpting compliance.
Just a suggestion...when I find an AP story on a source that must be excerpted, I go find another source for the AP story so that I can post the whole thing and not have to excerpt it. You can usually go to Google News and find dozens of sites hosting the same AP story and use one of those. That way, we get to read and archive on FR the entire story and we don’t give any free traffic to fifth column, anti-American dinosaur MSM sites like the Washington Post.
***Good idea, Spiff. I’m copying it here so that I don’t have to remember who wrote it when I need it in the future.
It's simple. He's always hated it. But he's also always thought there was nothing more important. What's so hard to reconcile here? :P
Please FreepMail me if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.
How can anyone not vote for a man who displays such a superior intellect and ability to reason as this? (do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
That struck me too. Again and again, Giuliani proves with his language and actions that he believes absolute power resides with the State, except for the things the State explicitly allows us to do.
Nah, he’s still trying to con us. He claims that he’s against it personally, but he believes in respecting opposing viewpoints and “granting” personal choices. Yet in NYC, he didn’t even respect very minor opposing viewpoints, for example, the views of people who keep ferrets as pets. He couldn’t even “grant” choices as minor as that.
From what we know of Giuliani, if he hates something personally, he will use the full power of the State to criminalize it. If he does not support doing this with abortion, we can conclude that he does not personally hate it, and never has.
Not that this wasn’t obvious anyway, based on his six donations to Planned Parenthood. Oh, that’s right — those donations were to support adoption counselling. /s
Outstanding point.
Heck, look at Rudy's bile-filled outburst at a ferret owner that we've seen posted here. The more I look at Rudy's campaign to keep ferrets illegal in NYC, the more that stands as the ultimate metaphor of Rudy's neurotic and narcissistic personality.
He’s not even been in state management. At least candidates such as senators have to represent entire states, including urban and rural voters with their own particular viewpoints. As diverse as NYC is, it can also be a very parochial place where residents share very similar viewpoints on a great number of things. The distance between municipal government and federal government is vast.
If Giuliani was a candidate in the 1850s...
Julieannie Tries to Clarify Slavery Stance
Candidate Says He Is Personally Opposed but Supports Plantation Owner’s Right to Choose
HOUSTON — Republican presidential candidate Rudolf Julieannie on Friday urged abolitionists to look past his support for slavery rights, arguing that his divergence on the issue should not disqualify him from being the party’s nominee.
Describing his belief that slavery was “morally wrong,” Giuliani said he has opposed it all his life. But he said he believes the decision should ultimately be left to individuals and that their decisions should be respected.
“In a country like ours ... I believe you have to respect their viewpoint and give them a level of choice. I would grant property owner’s the right to make that choice,” he said.
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