Posted on 04/04/2007 7:07:11 PM PDT by Ol' Sparky
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (CNN) -- Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told CNN Wednesday he supports public funding for some abortions, a position he advocated as mayor and one that will likely put the GOP presidential candidate at odds with social conservatives in his party.
"Ultimately, it's a constitutional right, and therefore if it's a constitutional right, ultimately, even if you do it on a state by state basis, you have to make sure people are protected," Giuliani said in an interview with CNN's Dana Bash in Florida's capital city.
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Giuliani also vowed to appoint conservative judges to the bench, though denied such a promise was a "wink and a nod" to conservatives in support of overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision on abortion.
"A strict constructionist judge can come to either conclusion about Roe against Wade," he said. "They can look at it and say, 'Wrongly decided thirty years ago, whatever it is, we'll over turn it.' [Or] they can look at it and say, 'It has been the law for this period of time, therefore we are going to respect the precedent.' Conservatives can come to that conclusion as well. I would leave it up to them. I would not have a litmus test on that."
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So you support mud slinging as an effective political tool?
And he told you. No one.
But you kept haranguing him.
How is that any of your business, and why did you feel that my conversation with him entitled you to attack me?
...and I don't believe him.
Is that your business as well?
Anyone who wants can scroll back and see that it is you who has been a "jerk" on this thread, and that I responded to your constant badgering calmly and matter-of-factly.
Everyone catches grief on this site from someone else as a result of who they support, some take the cheap and cowardly route, and claim that they support no one, while throwing out plenty of grief to those who do admit to supporting someone.
I never realized telling the truth about a politician's past was mud slinging.
There's not much point trying to promote a conservative candidate when the top 2, frontrunning candidates with all the cash are flaming liberals. The first item of business is to knock them down so that the conservative campaigns have a fighting chance. Free Republic should be a hive of activity working to knock the liberal candidates out so that the conservative and even semi-conservative candidates have a prayer. All things are not equal here. All candidates are not equal here either. Despite the subversives here who have been working tirelessly to promote the liberal candidates and demoralize the supporters of the conservative candidates, the overarching goal of Free Republic is to promote conservative candidates and causes and to fight liberals and their causes. The infestation of subversives here working for liberals and against conservatives, that has been evident since the California Recall Election, has become intolerable.
Personally, I don't care which specific candidate you support. But if you openly support and promote a liberal candidate - whether it is Obama, Romney, Giuliani, Clinton, or whomever - you're going to get flamed on this CONSERVATIVE forum. If you promote anyone other than a conservative here, you're going to get what you deserve. And yes, that may include being called names. I don't care when I hurt a liberal's feelings, they are scum. Lie down with liberal dogs and you're going to get fleas and we don't need that kind of pest here.
Who do you support EV?
“Mudslinging”? Hah. The vast majority of my posts against Giuliani and Romney have focused on their words and record.
To borrow a phrase from Truman, “I’ve just told the truth and they think it’s hell.”
I just want to know what candidate meets with EV’s approval, so that I can shift my support.
How is that a wrong thing for me to do?
He’s talked me out of supporting Rudy, and now I want to follow in his steps, and support the candidate that he supports.
Please EV...help me fill this void you’ve created in my political world.
Tell me who you support so I can be just like you.
#251 was meant for you.
Revealing a candidate's dishonesty, corruption, or lack of character is part of political campaigning. Exposing a candidate's offensive votes, record, and statements is too. You can call that mud slinging all you want, but it is an effective political tool. Free Republic has used this tool since the site was created. It has used it against liberals and effectively so. Just because it is not your liberal ox that is getting gored does not mean that Free Republic should stop doing what it does. We showed no mercy to liberals like either of the Clintons, nor to Gore, Kerry, Murtha, Pelosi, Obama, Kennedy, Byrd, etc. And there's no reason that we should hold back against liberals like Romney and Giuliani.
Free Republic could be very effective during this Primary campaign. We could help the campaigns of the conservatives in the race by doing the dirty work - the opposition research on the liberal candidates and exposing them for the frauds and liberals they are. We'd be busy doing that except that the subversives here have distracted this site from its goal and potential. Instead, we're busy fighting a fight that should even exist here as the supporters of the liberal candidates are still allowed to use this conservative forum to promote liberal candidates - thus dividing the forum and diverting our conservative mission.
Help me out...you’ve convinced me to turn my back on Rudy, I need your help in filling this void.
Guide me...point me in the politically right direction, tell me who you support so that I can be just like you.
I'd suggest you read the GOP primary from 2004, for starters. Last I checked, it was pro-life. Didn't call abortion a Constitutional right.
should be GOP platform.
Well, Mr. Sincerity, if you “want to be like me” you’ll just have to keep your powder dry for awhile.
First of all, I don’t hate Rudy. I simply won’t vote for him. Secondly, if you can’t see the oxymoron in Rudy’s words, I can’t help you.
I know the platform, and I know the candidates...so does EV.
I want EV to tell me who he supports.
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