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.
I am a conservative,I am just stating a fact.
Let me say this as simply as I know how, a REAL conservative would NEVER support a candidate who does not support a single conservative position and Roody falls into that category.
And as long as the left is pushing their despicable agenda, I plan to keep my foot on the throat of the GOP. We don't need another leftist political party in this country.
Thanks for providing that link. From that article:
“Excuse me, but if we really wanted headlines and flashbulbs, we would sacrifice our core convictions and hug Rudy at noon in Times Square.
We won’t, and here’s why. Commentators left and right justly hail Rudy for saving New York City from rampant crime and disorder. It is no doubt a tremendous accomplishment, one that the rest of us in flyover country respect. Large as it looms, however, New York is not the United States, nor is its revival a true model for fixing what ails America.”
Truth.
Well, here’s one Jewish woman who would NEVER vote for a pro-abortion, gun-grabbing, family-trashing egomaniac who proudly flaunted his adulterous affair. Instead of pushing conservatives to raise a white flag, we should be rallying the troops to support the good guys and GIVE them a chance, instead of bemoaning the belief that they don’t have one. Yes, the MSM remains liberal, but I’d love to see them dethroned once again as Ronald Reagan so eloquently did in 1980. Today we even have the advantage of alternative media - such as talk hosts & conservative internet sites - which were practically nonexistent back then.
Hey, Rudy, you think the unborn baby, if given the choice, would go elsewhere and abandon his mom who is busily trying to scrape him off her uterus and flush him out of her life?
LOL!!! Exactly.
When Ghouliani was mayor, he uttered some garbage about not needing social conservatives in the GOP. Now he’s begging us to support him?
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