May 08, 2007
Rudy Is... Pro Choice!
Memo to Rudy Giuliani: you are pro-choice. Deal with it.
Memo to Republicans and conservatives who are shocked, SHOCKED to discover that a PRO-CHOICE politican would donate money to a PRO-CHOICE advocacy group and declare such donations a "last straw" -- Rudy Giuliani is pro-choice. He has been pro-choice. He will be pro-choice. Steel yourselves for yet more revelations that he is, indeed, pro-choice.
First Read wonders: "[W]hat’s worse -- a flip-flopper on abortion, a solidly pro-choice Republican, or someone whose position on the issue is so tangled that voters no longer understand what that position is?"
Rudy's compromise to date has been his promise to appoint "strict constructionist" judges who won't write their own views into the law. One doesn't need to be a legal pragmatist to begin to ask questions about what that really means, but in political Washington, appointing "strict constructionist" judges MEANS appointing pro-life judges. It just does. In political Washington, and to primary voters, it makes no sense to say that you'd appoint "strict constructionist" justices who might well sustain Roe. Rudy may well have an intellectual construct in his mind that reconciles this apparent disparity, but in politics, what is and what ought to be aren't paramount: what's thought to be -- that's what matters.
Hats off to former Hotliner Jonathan Martin for receiving this cycle's best oppo dump, and hats off to the Politico for forthrightly disclosing that it came from a rival campaign. [MARC AMBINDER]
Posted at 09:16 AM
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Rival campaign: McCain.
Ross Smith | 05.08.07 10:48 AM
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I realize this isn't a big news story so far as Rudy has always been pro-choice, but it is big because Rudy has been saying lately that he "hates abortion". That's definitely not consistent with these donations.
Steven | 05.08.07 11:06 AM
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Oh Please!
This was an oppo DUMP that means nothing.
Rudy is pro-choice.
Flap | 05.08.07 02:24 PM
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Rudy Giuliani is one of the only candidates who is intellectually honest. How is it that Romney gets off scot-free after a complete reversal?
New Yorker | 05.08.07 05:07 PM
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