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To: fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican
I hope I'm mistaken, but I thought I read that both Crist and Gallagher are pro-choice on abortion.

Crist is pro-life in a "I'm a hard core social conservative but not like a Bible thumper or anything right wing or scary or dogmatic" kind of way, Gallagher is kind of pro-abortion but in a "vote for me because I'm a pro-life pro-family social conservative" kind of way.

They have been playing a strange game of leapfrog, each trying to run to the right AND left of the other -- from what I can tell.

AFAIK they're both 'officially' pro-life but realistically somewhere in the wide spectrum between Jeb and Toni, with Crist a bit further right.

79 posted on 01/13/2006 12:41:03 PM PST by JohnnyZ (Happy New Year! Breed like dogs!)
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To: JohnnyZ; fieldmarshaldj

Well, Crist manages to talk about all sorts of things in the "family values" section of his campaign website, but is silent on abortion and the right to life: http://www.charliecrist.com/issues/issues.aspx
And I don't recall Attorney General Crist doing much to save Terri Schiavo.


And Gallagher seems to be implying that he is pro-life in his campaign website, but the language is vague enough that he could wiggle out of it (like Doug Forrester did in NJ):

Protecting our Most Vulnerable Citizens

Part of building strong families and a civil society is working as a community to protect the most vulnerable. A humane and just culture must recognize the dignity of all innocent life as something worth protecting and encouraging. A culture will not be remembered so much by what it builds but by how it protects those who are most in need.

http://www.tg2006.com/en-us/Pages/About/IssueDetails.aspx?is_id=5


Frankly, I wish they would just up and say where they stand. It's Florida, not Vermont, and they could say they are pro-life without getting pilloried by the voters.


82 posted on 01/13/2006 1:01:13 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (http://auh2orepublican.blogspot.com/)
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