"Oh, please, let me sound like a conservative. I need all those
dumb Christian conservatives to make a decent primary showing."
"Oh, please, let me sound like a conservative. I need all those
dumb Christian conservatives to make a decent primary showing."
Stunning. Rudy has tossed aside all pretenses of being good for the pro-life agenda. He would be the most divisive GOP nominee ever.
Rooty can go ahead and “get beyond those issues” without my vote ever.
Pat Robertson has been known to not always be conservative on issues.
Republicans are once again going to show themselves as political hypocrites, and will lose because of it.
When the Democrats and the left decide and agree to leave any kind of social issues out of the political realm, that will be the day I would agree to leave social issues out.
Otherwise the game being played now will be a total victory for liberalism, given to the Democrats by virtue of the Republican Party.
This is a surprise. Not what I expected of Rudy.
Republicans must have other issues. Abortion is the only election issue for less than 2% of the electorate and “very important issue” for about 8% of the voters. You cannot win elections with your lead issue appealing to 8% of the voters.
In order to win elections, anti-abortion activists must learn the basic facts of wining elections in democracies. You will never get a candidate you agree with 100%. As Barry Goldwater once said, “I don’t agree with myself 100% of the time.”
There are other critical issues facing America. The war with radical Islam must be won or there is no need to worry about abortion. Unmarried pregnant women will be stoned to death under Sharia law.
Finally, don’t get mad at the 92% of Americans who don’t agree abortion is a very important issue. Use polls the way Ronald Reagan did, as a tools to understand where you must concentrate your educational efforts.
We will get the anti-abortion candidate we want when we have educated America to demand him.
“Our party has to get beyond issues like that.”
*OUR* party? This ought to make for some good talk radio this week.
Rudy is an enemy to the US Contitution and to conservatism, and so are his supporters.
It's Regent University.
I know that's the headline, but as I noted on the other thread with the same story, Regent has worked very hard to build their repuptation from the days when it was "CBN University."
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This isn’t going to mainstream Rudy, it’s going to drive the final nail into Pat “I prayed for the hurricane to go away and it did” Robertson’s coffin.
I can't believe Rudy is that dumb, to say something like that, especially after the comments to CNN a while back.
He is getting some incredibly poor advice. I always thought of him as a very smart guy, but he just doesn't seem to have a clue about what the voters think outside the liberal cities.
Yeah, those pesky unborn children, eh Rudy?
How convenient (it would be for Giuliani). This guy just cannot be the R nominee. No doubt the party platform would be changed and no telling when or if we would get it back. Odd that a man appointed by Reagan and shown together in pictures with him, would be someone who threatens so much that Reagan accomplished.