Wednesday, March 07, 2007
National Catholic Register on Rudy
The NCR has received Rudy's offer to pro-life republicans: one electable candidate in exchange for compromising on their principles. Its answer: not gonna happen.
hattip: Caucus Cooler
Since Giuliani is committed to the war on terror and is a great crisis manager with a track record rooting out the gangs of New York, we shouldn’t demand that he be pro-life, but instead we should be willing to make a deal.
Rudy’s deal: He’ll promise not to push the pro-abortion agenda, and he’ll nominate judges in the mold of Samuel Alito and John Roberts. Pro-lifers in the Republican Party in return would support him, but keep insisting that the party stay pro-life, and fight our fiercest pro-life battles at the state level, where they belong...
A Republican Party led by a pro-abortion politician would become a pro-abortion party. Parents know that, when we make significant exceptions to significant rules, those exceptions themselves become iron-clad rules to our children. It’s the same in a political party. A Republican Party led by Rudy Giuliani would be a party of contempt for the pro-life position, which is to say, contempt for the fundamental right on which all others depend.
Would a pro-abortion president give us a pro-life Supreme Court justice? Maybe he would in his first term. But we’ve seen in the Democratic Party how quickly and completely contempt for the right to life corrupts. Even if a President Giuliani did the right thing for a short time, it’s likely the party that accepted him would do the wrong thing for a long time.
Would his commitment to the war on terror be worth it? The United States has built the first abortion businesses in both Afghanistan and Iraq, ever. Shamefully, our taxes paid to build and operate a Baghdad abortion clinic that is said to get most of its customers because of the pervasive rape problem in that male-dominated society. And that happened under a pro-life president. What would a pro-abortion president do?
The bottom line: Republicans have made inroads into the Catholic vote for years because of the pro-life issue. If they put a pro-abortion politician up for president, the gains they’ve built for decades will vanish overnight.
hattip: Caucus Cooler
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2 comments:
It will certainly be interesting to watch how things break over the next few months. On the one hand, given the seeming importance of SoCons in handing Bush victory in '04, it seems surprising that Rudy maintains such an overwhelming lead. On the other hand, supposedly ~half of the republican voters polled are not aware of Rudy's liberal positions and/or messy divorces, which could explain things.
That said, I'm at a loss to believe that half of Republicans really are not aware of Rudy's positions, given all the press spotlight they have received. At best, I would believe that those Republicans to whom social issues are less important might be unaware of Rudy's positions, but I just can't believe that any SoCons who are making this the primary litmus in their vote are at this stage still unaware, if these issues are that important to them.
What this means, I think, is that it will take a lot of vocal support for another candidate and opposition to Rudy from evangelical leaders to shift the polls, such as this story on CNN today:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/07/giuliani.baptists.ap/index.html
Barring that, and even perhaps with that, it will be hard to surpass Rudy's early dominant lead. These things do tend to move with a herd mentality though, so if Mitt or another candidate starts to pick up some positive momentum coupled with negative press for Rudy, things can change quickly.
Mitt's my man all the way, but it goes without saying that I would welcome Rudy as president over Billary or Obama or Edwards in a heartbeat. At a minimum it would guarantee smaller government via lower taxes and spending, and a tough policy on crime and GWOT, two major considerations for me.
Of course I'll be pulling the lever GOP no matter what. Even on life: I'd rather have a pro-choicer who's selling out his prinicples to put an anti-Roe vote on the court, than a pro-choicer putting pro-Roe justices on the court.