Is the GOP Ready For A Free Thinker?

by DemFromCT

Poor Rudy. His flip-flops on the abortion question to appease the religious right in his party (and they all do it, from Romney to McCain to Bush 41 to Reagan) have gotten him in a bit of hot water with his adoring public.

His current posture has left past political allies and abortion rights supporters dismayed over what they regard as his backsliding. At the same time, he has hardly endeared himself to conservative activists who disagree with his overall support for abortion rights.

"I'm ashamed of him," said Fran Reiter, who was New York's deputy mayor for economic development and planning during Giuliani's first administration and was his 1997 reelection campaign manager. Reiter, a strong advocate of abortion rights, added: "I feel a certain betrayal."

Giuliani adviser Jim Dyke countered by saying, "His position doesn't fit into a sound bite or on a bumper sticker." Yesterday's speech, he added, was designed "to let people have a clear understanding of where he stands and what this pro-choice Republican would mean as president."

But there's a problem for Dyke's candidate. Guiliani's party is both intolerant and unforgiving on the issue of choice (sparking this warning from the WSJ). In fact, the contretemps over choice is not going away, and it's even threatening to obscure Rudy's ethical lapses and poor judgment when it comes to Bernie Kerik,  OxyContin,  and the kind of sleazy politics that the GOP never really has a problem with (but the public does).

Charlie Cook, for one, has never thought Rudy had much of a shot at the GOP ticket, because of structural issues like the pro-choice one.

"I'll win the Tour de France before Rudy Giuliani wins the Republican nomination."

The thing is, all the GOP candidates have structural issues, including McCain's bonding with the unpopular Bush on the unpopular war. That's why the party faithful are so depressed, and into pretending that Fred Thompson is presidential material (he'll be the guest speaker at the Prescott Bush Awards Dinner in CT, so he gets to persuade New Englanders the way he did Orange County Californians).  But politics being what it is, we can only watch one painful train wreck at a time before we look away.

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[DemFromCT]

dmsilev points to this red state post: The End Of Rudy

[Melanie]

Ick, Dem, that's a Ben Domenich post. It's barely English.

[hauksdottir]

Guiliani has more problems than this. He's lost Iowa, and perhaps a major swath of the heartland.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/05/rudy_snubs_farm.php

By trying to apply the wrong message with the wrong "set of props", his campaign made more of a misstep than most GOPers, as well as highlighting the way they use people as comestibles. If one army unit or aircraft carrier or tractor factory is like another, one farm family is like another, too? Wrong. The way the VonSpreckens were treated and disposed of was despicable. Deb may be a loyal true-believing Republican, but she didn't deserve being thrown back in the drawer like the wrong tool.

Even New Yorkers ought to know that people are individuals!

Iowa may have gone red last time, but I think enough of the Democratic contenders will swing through, listen to concerns, and appreciate the hard work and heartland values and NICENESS to be found here. Mega-millionaires may fuel a campaign, but these people are voters.

[Sara]

I still think that once the press does a google on Alan Placa, Rudy's life long friend and Business Partner post 2001, and reads through something like the Grand Jury Report on Priestly Pedophilia on Long Island, Abortion will be joined by Pedophilia on the campaign trail.

[emptypockets]

Personally I'm most interested in Giuliani's candidacy as a means of discouraging Bloomberg from entering (I just can't see two NYC mayors competing successfully for resources).

And while everyone thinks I'm a loon for considering a Bloomberg candidacy something to worry about, he's re-launched his campaign website:

Late yesterday [Wednesday] afternoon, Mr. Bloomberg announced that he was dusting off his old campaign Web site...

The site prominently features recent media coverage of his presidential prospects, and the overall effect, whether part of an actual campaign strategy or simply a means to heighten speculation about one, is to present the mayor as a champion of practical, nonpartisan solutions to vexing policy issues.

“It looks to me like the precursor of an independent bid for the presidency,” said George Arzt, a consultant and veteran of city politics.

I run on the theory that very little about Bloomberg appears in the NYT that Bloomberg hasn't put there so the existence of this article, to me, indicates he wants to keep the fires burning, either as an independent bid or as a campaign for VP.

A third-party campaign run by a billionaire businessman has precedent. And I've already speculated loonily that Bloomberg would help electorally as VP -- for either party.

[Jodi]

The guy who is going to run said "call me in September."

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Jodi, who would that be? Newtie? Not likely.

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