Posted on 10/18/2007 3:13:22 PM PDT by HJH207
Congressman Pete Sessions(R-Tex.) has been the most vocal and prominent pro-life advocate of Rudy Giuliani’s presidential candidacy. I interviewed him on the eve of Giuliani’s appearance before the Family Research Council’s Voters Value Forum this weekend, perhaps the most important moment for Giuliani to address concerns of pro-life voters and stem a move to a possible third party candidate. He talked at length about his relationship with Giuliani and Giuliani’s views, which he contends are not fully known to conservatives.
I asked him how he came to support Giuliani given Rep. Sessions longtime pro-life views. He replied that “I am a friend of the Mayor. I’ve spent a great deal of personal time talking to him.” He continued that based on their discussions he thinks the “pro-life” label for Giuliani does not capture how Giuliani would “make decisions.” He contends that “as you dissect” how he would have voted if Giuliani were a member of Congress, Sessions concludes that Giuliani would have “voted exactly as I did” on issues which come before Congress. He points to the partial birth abortion ban, taxpayer funding for abortions, parental notification, penalties for those who take minors across state lines for an abortion and foreign funding for groups which offer abortion services( the Mexico City accord). Sessions says that Giuliani “unequivocally states” that he would vote as Sessions and pro-life legislators do on these matters. I pressed Sessions on whether even in the face of legislation on these issues he believed Giuliani would veto legislation from a Democratic Congress to, for example, repeal the Hyde Amendment. Session answered without hesitation: “Yes, I do.”
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Jim is right, by the way.
Thank you!
3rd party for me if Rudy is nominated. Hillary doesn’t scare me, in fact neither she nor Rudy would win anyway. Conservatives, libertarians, and independents would all unite behind the 3rd-party candidate.
And your facts to back this up would be...
Wishful thinking without understanding political reality gets you nowhere. The truth is that either the Republican or Democrat will win the presidential election. A third party run by a conservative would only work to elect the Democrat. Now if you actually have facts to support your claim, by all means let us see them.
No facts needed, it's pure common-sense. Liberals aren't going to vote for Rudy - they'll just shrug and vote for Hillary. Rudy would be 3rd in a three-way race.
NO GIULIANI = NO PROBLEM
The fact is that Giuliani is electoral POISON.
By simply NOT voting Giuliani in the primary we avoid GOP problems.
No Third Party run.
No christian sit out.
The fact is a Giuliani candidacy IS a defeat.
Giuliani IS Hillary. The two are fungible.
No Giuliani = No Problem.
No, you have no facts. This is one conservative that would vote for Rudy in the general as would countless others. Cite one political scientists or other expert that backs up your claim. Just one. Otherwise you are simply pulling info out of your ass.
So, are Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Voting for a man with a liberal record that lacks character is the equivalent of making a deal with the devil.
It's the same thing conservatives did in California with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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