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.
LOL... OK, I'll never vote for Rudy because of his proven anti-gun positions.
Well, That was easy!
How about amnesty, can we not support you over that? How about the 2A? How about embryonic stem cells? How about any of the 100 Liberal positions you have taken and tried to massage into conservative values to win this nom?
G.W.B. has taught us a valuable lesson. I’m not interested in getting screwed again. No Liberals on this ticket.
I’ll be a GOP voter until after the primary.
It will probably be my last primary, though.
Ghouliani is a Pro-Abort Pro-Sodomite Anti-2nd Amendment cross-dressing liberal GOP freak impostor. That sounds like name-calling but sadly it’s just the facts.
Hes also a CINO and should be formally and publicly excommunicated...from the Church and the Party.
“Our right to choose someone besides Rudy” is must reading IMO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856162/posts
Rudy is a Leftist.
Sorry Rudy, the GOP Conservatives are aborting you.
Okay. I'll abandon him over gun control, then.
I have yet to figure out a single conservative position that Rudy has. And it’s not the WOT because there are liberals who support that too.
That so wrong on many level don’t pick old lady who yell HELP I fallen I can’t get up
BAD MONK BAD ROFL
No problem!
I’ll pick another liberal stance that alienates me.
Interesting, isn't it? They know full well their actions are destroying the party yet they do not care.
I feel sorry for those in the party who will suffer despite having not sold out as has bush. People like Duncan Hunter. He's an honorable man. And I have no doubt he realizes how pathetic the party has become. How sad.
Give that man a
So many issues to abandon Rooooty over, that it is hard to choose!
exactly.
IMO, wars should be non-political. And this one would have been if Dems had been in charge reeping possible benefits. I don’t consider it a conservative issue at all, even though it’s mostly conservatives that still take it seriously.
When someone can find a key conservative issue Rudy supports I’d love to know. And, no, recent PR statements don’t count. he’s got a pretty long track record. if there’s proof he is conservative about something, it should be in that record.
Right now I have no reason he’d support social conservatives on marriage, abortion, prayer, or stem cells. no reason to believe he’d support fiscal conservatives on tax cuts, cutting spending and reducing size of government. no reason he’d be with us against KELO, McCain/feingold or support drilling in ANWR let alone school choices and judges. certainly his record shows he’s against the 2A and enforcing our border. from where I stand even Hillary is better. because maybe the Republicans would oppose her in principle as she is a “D”. with Rudy they’d screw us worse then Bush and the Reps are now, and that would be hard to do.
If you continue to support killing babies, you are not a conservative and you are not my candidate ever! If you continue to support allowing homosexuals to marry, you are not my candidate and never will be! Any questions or doubts about my stance? But people like Hannity seem to like you. Where does that leave Hannity, a practicing Catholic?
I've said the same thing many times and the Roody Rooters don't get it. Foreign conflicts have always apolitical, politics stops at the border.
And Roody's talk about being mayor on 9/11 is no different from sKerry telling us he was in Vietnam.
Pro abortion
Gun grabber
Sanctuary city mayor
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
"I've fallen, I can't get up, and those pro-lifers are gonna leave me here."
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