Almost a week has gone by since pro-life leaders vowed third party support in the event of a Giuliani nomination and the fires are still burning on both sides of the Giuliani divide. I’m sick of this whole thing already. The way I see it, much of this infighting can be avoided if we would take a break and focus on that which unites us.
The majority of Republicans, I believe, still want to protect America’s most vulnerable members by changing hearts and minds and winning battles politically through pro-life legislation and conservative judges who will interpret the Constitution, which guarantees that “all men are created equal” and “endowed by their Creator” with the “unalienable…right to life,” correctly. We also want to protect America’s homeland from the threat of terrorism and illegal immigration, keep taxes low (though I am a huge fan of the fair tax and eliminating the income tax altogether), the government small, the markets free and spending DOWN. We don’t really disagree on the issues.
Regarding the presidential candidates (and I could be wrong about this) I see that the majority, or most likely all, of Republicans do not want Hillary Clinton – or any other running Democrat – to get elected, and many likewise do not want to vote for Giuliani. Even those I know who would support him against Hillary do not pick Giuliani as their first choice. So what are we fighting about? If we were smart we would stop arguing about a hypothetical Hillary/Giuliani race and try to rally support for a candidate that everyone, hopefully, can agree with.
Got any ideas on who that might be???
2 Comments on “The Great Giuliani Divide”
Well, I’m a Hunter guy, and I see your Brownback icon there on the right, but I’m thinking that the time is fast coming when social conservatives need to coalesce around just one candidate.
And it seems fair that that should be the most popular candidate. Right now that looks like Huckabee.
Although if Romney were to announce that Hunter, Huckabee, or Brownback, or Keyes, any of several others, were his pick for running mate, I’d say we could go with Romney.
I got excited about Brownback very early on just because I love his position on, and the way he talk about, life issues. I kind of like him in the way I like Alan Keyes. I like Huckabee and, he seems to be polling better than the other candidates that I would probably rather support (Hunter and Brownback). But I am a little concerned about his embryonic stem cell research position. He supports research on “existing stem cell lines” as long as we’re not “creating new life in order to destroy it” – which could translate into support for more funding for research on already existing IVF embryos. I’m also wondering why, or how, he scored only a 26 (out of 50) on Forbes’s “conservative rating.”
I agree with you on Romney.