Monday, May 14, 2007

Rudy Will Be Knocked Down Big Tomorrow

As many of you know, I am not the biggest Rudy Giuliani fan in the blogoshpere. I do not think he is a conservative Republican, and not a real good Republican when as the mayor of New York City in the seminal election year of 1994 chose to support. . .Democrat New York governor Mario Cuomo for reelection. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) maybe a lot of things, but he is a Republican and has never backed a Democrat with he same stature as Mr. Giuliani did in the case of Mr. Cuomo.
Having said all of that, if by miracle of miracles he does turn out to be the Republican nominee for president, I will hold my nose and vote for him for president. He will be marginally better than any, and I mean any Democrat.
Now, I believe that tomorrow night in the second Republican presidential debate in South Carolina, Rudy Giuliani is going to get an old fashioned beating and it is going to be from all sides.
Since the last debate in at the Reagan Library here in California, Mr. Giuliani has been having to explain in tortured detail his position on abortion. For Mr. Giuliani, it has been nothing but all abortion all the time. Not one of the explanations satisfies anyone. And that is a problem. Look, Mr. Giuliani is "pro-choice." I do not agree with his position, but I would have some respect for Mr. Giuliani if he stuck to that position and let the chips fall where they may. By going all over the ballpark, he does not sound like the leader he wants us to believe but like just another politician dancing all over the place. Oh, and one more on the abortion subject. As a practicing Roman Catholic, the church believes that human life begins at conception. Thus, when you answered Fox News' Chris Wallace that you do not know when life begins, that is just as disingenuous as all the other answers you have been on the subject.
Same on same-sex marriage. He had been a proponent of it and now says he is not, but supports civil unions. However, even there it is hard to know where he really stands.
It is not just social issues. I still do not know where he stands on taxes, domestic spending, and a whole other host of domestic issues. Which leads to essentially the whole basis of his candidacy, his leadership during the time and days after 9/11.
There, he was wonderful and even amazing. He showed how to lead the city of New York back from the abyss, and never lost sight of that.
But, I do not think that the Republican party should reward him with the nomination for president. Head of Homeland Security in a Republican administration, absolutely, but not the president.
I think that he will be reminded of that in South Carolina tomorrow night.

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