Posted on 06/26/2007 4:19:29 PM PDT by wagglebee
Virginia Beach, VA (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-abortion Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani continued his efforts to reach out to primary voters who may be inclined to support other candidates because of his position. He told an audience at Regent University that the issue of terrorism is the most important single issue in the campaign.
Giuliani gave a 30 minute speech Tuesday at the conservative Christian university and never mentioned abortion directly or how he is out of step with most Republican voters, who are pro-life.
But he did appear to acknowledge the divide between his views and those of GOP voters he needs to capture the party's nomination.
"Don't expect you're going to agree with me on everything because that would be unrealistic. I don't agree with myself on everything," he said, using a self-deprecating tactic he's employed before.
"But if you agree with me about enough things, and you think I have the ability to lead then maybe I'm the person you can support," he added.
He urged pro-life voters to look beyond their differences with him over abortion and appeared to say that the destruction of more than 1.2 million unborn children annually was not the top issue facing Americans.
"It's not about one issue, it's about many issues," he said, according to a transcript of his speech. "If there is one issue that dominates ... is the fact that Islamic terrorists are planning to kill us. They have succeeded in doing it and they want to do it again."
After the speech, Giuliani talked with reporters about how he approached abortion in it. He told Reuters that he did not purposefully avoid the issue of abortion.
But Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, who has said he couldn't vote for Giuliani in the primary, told Reuters that pro-life voters could work together to stop the former New York mayor from getting the party's nod.
"Social conservatives cannot elect a president but they certainly can prevent one from being elected," he said.
No, in fact it’s less credible. Only two of the three - Giuliani, Thompson, and Hunter - are worthy of the Presidencty. Only one man of the three has seen real front line combat.
like it or not,with public opinion as it is,Rudy is the only republican who can win.conservative need-to wake up to this reality.
Like it or not, this is a Conservative site. Rudybots and other assorted trolls need to wake up to this reality.
YOU are the one who needs to wake up to reality. Free Republic is a conservative site, why on earth should we adopt the attitude that we need to support a leftist for the GOP nomination. And it doesn't matter anyway, because all of the polling shows that Hillary will lose if nominated and Fred Thompson is even with Roody without even announcing.
Sean is only ONE conservative Rudi....sorry it went to your head. I think you're great but you need to find another goal.
Wow,Conservatives are going to lose big time with that attitude.You sound like a liberal closed minded to any opinion but your own,and I will tell you I told you so.
My comments against Rudy are generally critical, but not derogatory. I differ from you that Rudy is better suited to beat the opposition. I just can’t support him in the primary and I do believe a conservative can win if he is honest about his message. I know where you’re coming from, however.
OK, I won’t but can I abandon you because of your stand on gun control or your stand on ... bye.
They should abandon him because of the 2nd Amendment also.
Roody does not stand for a single conservative principle, you support him, that makes YOU the LIBERAL.
Spoken like a true liberal, I suppose you would have thought the same thing about slavery 150 years ago.
Does the author of THIS thread sound like a “closed minded liberal”?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821435/posts
A pro-choicer has very little chance with the conservative Republican base who vote in the primaries, and if they did win say because the conservative vote was split between several conservatives, when it came time for the election the conservatives would stay home because they vote principle not just party and the dim would win.
That’s why we had so many FRiberals running around here saying that conservatives had had the “foot on the throat” of the GOP for so long.
We’re not abandoning him; we’re aborting him!
You may as well learn to enjoy this Conservative foot on the neck of the liberal branch of the Republican party, because it’s not going to be removed. Live with it.
poor rudy. he made his bed now he can lie in it.
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