Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Rudy: I want to love him
He's my paesan. He killed big welfare in NYC. He grew the economy through personal accountability. He refused to countenance the race politics charlatans in NYC, and unabashedly supported the police. He showed courage in leading New Yorkers through our darkest day. He was a real manager, using quantitative measures to improve how the public sector delivers service.
And yet...
on the biggest issues that our next president will face, I don't know if I can trust him. We're probably one or two S.C. justices away from overturning Roe, and the next President could have up to 4 nominations. The National Review explained the Giuliani skepticism among pro-lifers as follows:
I can't reconcile these positions with the most important moral imperatives that confront America. Take the following words of JPII:
“Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights - for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture - is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with the maximum determination”
Someone who is pro-choice is not defending the right to life with even a minimum of determination. And such a candidate cannot be trusted with the office of the Presidency, at least from the vantage point of one who shares the Holy Father’s concerns.
For Rudy to have stated in the past he is pro-choice, and never have repudiated that position, but at the same time say he would nominate justices like Alito and Roberts, is about as empty as empty rhetoric gets.
Our current Holy Father weighed in on another crucially important issue that will confront our next President.
You know, “attempts to make it juridically equivalent” like civil unions for homosexuals, which Rudy has openly supported.
State and federal courts around the country are chipping away at millenia-old definitions of marriage, and Rudy supports equivocating solutions like civil unions. While Governor Romney was busy doing battle with the judiciary in MA, Rudy was sleeping with the enemy.
Rudy says all the right things about confronting Jihadism. His track record on ignoring the PC police and dismantling the welfare state are truly exemplary. But on the biggest moral issues confronting America in the next decade, issues that threaten to gut the very foundation on which our free society has been built, he is MIA. I really hope he doesn't win the nomination and put me behind the 8-ball: Rudy or a Democrat.
And yet...
on the biggest issues that our next president will face, I don't know if I can trust him. We're probably one or two S.C. justices away from overturning Roe, and the next President could have up to 4 nominations. The National Review explained the Giuliani skepticism among pro-lifers as follows:
Giuliani’s pro-life critics point to his April 5, 2001, address at the National Abortion Rights Action League’s “Champions of Choice” luncheon in Manhattan.
“As a Republican who supports a woman’s right to choose, it is particularly an honor to be here,” Giuliani said. He added: “The government shouldn’t dictate that choice by making it a crime or making it illegal.”
During his unsuccessful 1989 mayoral campaign, Giuliani said, “I’d give my daughter the money for it [an abortion].”
I can't reconcile these positions with the most important moral imperatives that confront America. Take the following words of JPII:
“Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights - for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture - is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with the maximum determination”
Someone who is pro-choice is not defending the right to life with even a minimum of determination. And such a candidate cannot be trusted with the office of the Presidency, at least from the vantage point of one who shares the Holy Father’s concerns.
For Rudy to have stated in the past he is pro-choice, and never have repudiated that position, but at the same time say he would nominate justices like Alito and Roberts, is about as empty as empty rhetoric gets.
Our current Holy Father weighed in on another crucially important issue that will confront our next President.
On March 30, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI gave a list of several issues that are “not negotiable” for Catholics in political life, because they involve matters that are intrinsically evil. One of them was this:
“ Recognition and promotion of the natural structure of the family – as a union between a man and a woman based on marriage – and its defense from attempts to make it juridically equivalent to radically different forms of union which in reality harm it and contribute to its destabilization, obscuring its particular character and its irreplaceable social role”
You know, “attempts to make it juridically equivalent” like civil unions for homosexuals, which Rudy has openly supported.
State and federal courts around the country are chipping away at millenia-old definitions of marriage, and Rudy supports equivocating solutions like civil unions. While Governor Romney was busy doing battle with the judiciary in MA, Rudy was sleeping with the enemy.
Rudy says all the right things about confronting Jihadism. His track record on ignoring the PC police and dismantling the welfare state are truly exemplary. But on the biggest moral issues confronting America in the next decade, issues that threaten to gut the very foundation on which our free society has been built, he is MIA. I really hope he doesn't win the nomination and put me behind the 8-ball: Rudy or a Democrat.
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3 comments:
This basically is what is going to make this Repub primary more interesting than any in recent history. A lot of people in NH saw Rudy speak recently, and even though they are pro-life and almost always want to vote for a pro-life candidate, they were impressed with Rudy's speech and presence. As we've discussed in this blog previously, on the face of it nearly all of the candidates have something that would've made them a non-starter in previous campaigns, but something's got to give this time. Will it be Rudy overcoming very liberal positions on social issues? Or McCain overcoming failed previous attempts as well as run-ins with Republican mainstream in the past? Or will voters not care that Romney is Mormon (hopefully!)
Or, will it be none of those three, and one of the others emerges?
Newt is waiting in the wings and could make a big splash in Q4 '07 if he jumps in then (as he is saying he will if the nomination doesn't have a clear front-runner). If Romney can't sew-up SoCons by then, Newt will have credibility and a block of supporters right out of the gate.
I'm a case in point. I would be compelled to support Newt over McCain or Rudy, but I fully recognize that Newt is unlikely to win in the general.
Article about Rudy and whether he can win primary in USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-31-giuliani-cover_x.htm
Some interesting stats from that article:
1. Republicans tend to stick with front-runners. In each of the last nine presidential elections, the GOP contender who led the field the year before the election has won the nomination.
2. As fondly remembered as Giuliani is for responding to Sept. 11, however, most Americans don't know much else about him. Barely one in five Republicans knew that he supports abortion rights and civil unions for same-sex couples, the USA TODAY poll found. Nearly as many thought he was "pro-life" as said he was "pro-choice."
When they were told about his stance on those issues, his star dimmed. One in five Republicans said his views would "rule him out as a candidate" they could support. That included one-third of those who attend church every week, an important base of the GOP that makes up a third of party loyalists.
Another 25% of Republicans said his views made them less likely to support him, nearly double the proportion who said they made them more likely to support him.
Newt is interesting, I'm wondering whether he is really seriously considering running, or just throwing that out there in the hopes that one or more candidates moves towards his positions. If he can get Mitt or other candidate to adopt some of his stances, that's a win for him.