Giuliani declares himself to be functionally pro-life here. This troubles me. Abortion is one of those issues where I can accept that people are just going to have different points of view, but it seems a little craven to claim the pro-choice mantle while essentially promising to restrict abortion through legal means. I doubt he'll be able to get away with being on both sides of the issue.
So, this is how Giuliani stands up for his convictions? How limp is this Republican field? I knew that Giuliani, despite his rep, is a man of surpassingly weak character, but this is a flip-flop whatever way you slice it. Why even bother to do it, as it doesn't even seem like abortion is an important issue at this point? I just hope that Clinton hammers it home, as someone who can be induced to change their mind on such a fundamental issue for political gain doesn't really deserve to be in the White House. That's why I like Huckabee--Lord knows I don't agree with him on most things, but at least he's not a shifty bastard like Giuliani.
I suppose he could be lying, but that hardly makes things better.
My opinion is that Rudy is simply not going to be a very good candidate for the GOP. His temper and unprofessionalism are going to supply an endless series of gaffes and overreactions. The Biden remark is a prime example. If I had been Giuliani after Biden said that a sentence to me is a noun, a verb and 9/11, I probably would have ignored it or laughed it off or joked that a sentence for Biden is a noun, a verb, and a thousand other nouns and verbs. I wouldn't have had my press secretary release an attack that made me look like a prick. But Giuliani is a prick, isn't he? I think that's sort of why he's doing so well, since the GOP base is very combative. Being so predictably bellicose is not necessarily a good thing, if it means he's easy to provoke. If the Dem nominee can get his anger up and get him to keep overreacting to minor slights, it would be possible to paint him as a loose cannon unfit for the presidency. Add to that his hard right views on pretty much every issue right now (and the flip-flops) and I can imagine a pretty good case being made against the guy.
