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Giuliani clarifies his stand on abortion, gays and guns: abortion one of his "core beliefs."
heraldnet.com ^ | May 12, 2007 | Nation briefly

Posted on 05/12/2007 2:07:09 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

HOUSTON - In a shift of tactics, Republican presidential contender Rudolph Giuliani acknowledged his liberal views Friday, calling a woman's right to choose an abortion one of his "core beliefs." After a week of criticism for making contradictory comments about abortion, Giuliani also said he backs gay domestic partnerships that aren't marriage and the right of states to restrict guns. Giuliani, a New York Catholic who once considered the priesthood, chose to make his stand before a conservative, Protestant audience at Houston Baptist University in an appearance arranged just Wednesday.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; banglist; cultureofdeath; giuliani; giulianitruthfile; homosexualagenda; ifitquackslikeaduck; prolife; rkba; toprino
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To: azhenfud

“A leopard never changes his stripes.” - Al Gore

He really didn’t say that, did he?


21 posted on 05/12/2007 4:10:46 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo (Earth - Taking care of itself since 4.6 billion BC)
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To: Hydroshock
This RINO will tear the party apart.

Only if you define SoCons as the party. What happens if a new version of the GOP is crafted that appeals even more to the center?

Politics is simply calculus writ large. The only question relevant to Rudy is simply: can he attract more from the left than he loses on the right?

With NY, CA & FL lined up with early primaries, this strategy has every chance of winning. So then the next shoe drops: what do SoCons do? Form a 3rd party?

23 posted on 05/12/2007 4:18:30 AM PDT by Chuck Dent
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To: NewHampshireDuo

He sure did - he also quipped “Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things” and “If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure” plus a few more - they’re here:

http://www.geocities.com/th3franz/goreisms.html


24 posted on 05/12/2007 4:25:55 AM PDT by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Well, this should get his support to fall under 20%. I’d like to see him switch back to rat party and run against Hillary in the primaries.


25 posted on 05/12/2007 4:41:55 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Give Hillary a 50ยข coupon for Betty Crocker's devils food mix & tell her to go home and bake a cake)
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To: Chuck Dent

Then it is a third party for me if Rino Rudy is nominated.


26 posted on 05/12/2007 4:45:56 AM PDT by Hydroshock (Duncan Hunter For President, checkout gohunter08.com.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Giuliani, a New York Catholic who once considered the priesthood

************

This sentence begs for a punchline.

27 posted on 05/12/2007 4:49:20 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

I wonder who planned this so that the Pope could appear to be excommunicating him as he landed in Brazil. Genius!


28 posted on 05/12/2007 4:55:23 AM PDT by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: Jim Robinson
He should have aimed his sights at a New York Senator's seat.

Well, if he breaks off as a third party candidate, he'll draw a lot of Dim votes, too. We could still pull off a GOP win without him.

But he's done in the party. No base...he's gone. Forget the RINOs and their mewlings. The dark truth of reality yet evades them. You do not win the GOP primary without conservatives no matter what the liberal media has brainwashed you to believe. Julie has lost the base, he will have to wash away that disappointment with a few six packs of Zima or something...

My biggest concern is no longer Julie as a contender. It's whether Fred Thompson is actually able to mount a coherent campaign or if he's feeling his age.

I mean, I liked Bob Dole, too, but we all saw what happened...

Still, there's always Hunter and Brownback. They've hardly peaked and there a long way to go once the "money thing" is settled.

29 posted on 05/12/2007 4:55:40 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: NewHampshireDuo
He really didn’t say that, did he?

Would you expect any less from AlGore? : )

30 posted on 05/12/2007 4:57:09 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Jim Robinson

It looks like Rudy is getting ready to make the switch to the dhimmicrat party.


31 posted on 05/12/2007 4:57:39 AM PDT by 50mm (algore uses 20 times as much energy as me)
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To: NewHampshireDuo

He also spoke about our national motto, “E pluribus Unum..out of one, many.” Yeah, Algore is a real intellectual giant.


32 posted on 05/12/2007 5:01:15 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: 50mm
This New York City liberal gun grabbing moron should just go home and suck his thumb.

We've seen more than enough of him already.

He's NOT welcome here in New Hampshire!

33 posted on 05/12/2007 5:03:49 AM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: Jim Robinson

This confirms your stand taken previously re Giuliani, so stay the course.


34 posted on 05/12/2007 5:06:33 AM PDT by izzatzo
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To: 50mm
Wasn'r Rudy,like Bloomberg a Democrat party member for years until the party leaders told him to publicly pretend to switch to Republican .What a perfect way to have liberal Democrat s elected;just have them as the only candidates.

A big-tent party where the members do not share core beliefs is nothing more than a coalition.

35 posted on 05/12/2007 5:14:28 AM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
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To: azhenfud

Hehehehe! Exactly why I love my tag line!


36 posted on 05/12/2007 5:22:45 AM PDT by TexasRedeye (Eschew obfuscation)
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To: joseph20

Over at Wideawakes blog


37 posted on 05/12/2007 5:27:01 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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To: Bonaparte

I agree, I am a Duncan Hunter man.


38 posted on 05/12/2007 5:28:57 AM PDT by tiger-one (The night has a thousand eyes)
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To: gakrak

News flash to Rudy;The majority of voters don’t like to be jerked around and lied to.Please have the dignity to just go away quietly.


39 posted on 05/12/2007 5:29:06 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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To: tiger-one

40 posted on 05/12/2007 5:29:31 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Iran should have ceased to exist Nov. 5, 1979.)
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