God-o-Meter has said it before. But it may have more political punch coming from Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, one of the most influential religious conservatives in Washington. In an op-ed in today’s Politico, Perkins notes that there’s a glaring disconnect between Rudy Giuliani’s pro-choice stance and his strategy of assuaging social conservatives by promising to appoint “strict constructionists” to the Supreme Court. If even Giuliani admists that a strict constructionist judge might decide to uphold Roe v. Wade, then where does that get him with the pro-life movement.
What you need to know from Perkins:
[Giuliani] is adamant that his public and oft-repeated language on judicial restraint is consistent with the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court who will uphold Roe and its progeny….
The most important thing a president can do is pick judges who are “strict constructionists.”
For us and for most Americans, those words mean that decisions like Roe cannot stand.
It is precisely on this point that Rudy Giuliani dissents, and it’s a fact that every “pro-life” American should know and that every “pro-life” commentator should frankly admit.
God-o-Meter wonders how long until Rudy’s Republican rivals start making this same argument.
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posted November 26, 2007 at 8:55 am
I would hope that anyone not wanting Rudy, a pro-choice and socially liberal candidate, to win the presidency of the United States would realize that a vote for Huckabee is a vote for Rudy. Huckabee has no chance of winning the Republican nomination, and so any vote for Huckabee will help Rudy’s chances of winning the nomination. Look what happened to Pat Robinson? He won the nomination in Iowa but went nowhere after that. Let’s not make this same mistake again!
posted November 26, 2007 at 10:22 pm
I would hope that anyone not wanting Rudy, a pro-choice and socially liberal candidate, to win the presidency of the United States would realize that a vote for Huckabee is a vote for Rudy. Huckabee has no chance of winning the Republican nomination, and so any vote for Huckabee will help Rudy’s chances of winning the nomination. Look what happened to Pat Robertson? He won the nomination in Iowa but went nowhere after that. Let’s not make this same mistake again!