I totally agree. The pro-life people will stay at home. Guiliani say he’ll support constructionist judges, but I don’t know that I believe it. That’s like saying I believe in x,y, and z, but I’ll appoint someone who doesn’t and can concievably make x,y, and z illegal.
Sorry, that doesn’t pass the smell test for me. I think the best ticket for the republicans would be a Romney/Huckabee ticket or Romney/Hunter, or Huckabee/Hunter.
Romney is Giuliani. He’s just lying about it.
Huckabee is Jimmy Carter with an “R” by his name.
Last night CSPAN showed pollster Peter Hart conducting a focus group with 12 Virginia voters, all Republican.
When Hart asked about specific candidates, people seemed most uncomfortable with Romney because of his religion. I think four said outright they would not vote for him. Several (I forget exactly how many) were bothered by Rudy being pro-choice.
Toward the end, Hart asked about specific pairings. When asked who they would vote for in a Romney-Clinton race, all 12 said Romney, including those who had stated only minutes before that they would not vote for him. Same thing with those bothered by Rudy’s stand on abortion. All 12 said they would vote for Rudy. There seemed to be consensus that these things are bad but Democrats are worse. None of them said they would stay home.
Of course, this was not a scientific survey. I did see a Gallup poll that inquired about staying home if the GOP candidate is not acceptable. Depending on the candidate, 9-11% said they would stay home. But the lowest figure (9%) was for Giuliani and the highest figure (11%) was for Romney.
I did not expect what I saw last night or the Gallup results, but perhaps Republicans hate Hillary more than we realize.