Why Conservative Should Oppose Rudy
With apologizes to Ken Blackwell (see here and here), Pat Buchanan, in his column today, perfectly explained why I would never vote for the pro-abortion, anti-gun, pro-illegal immigration, liberal former Mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani:
And Rudy? A McGovernite in 1972, he boasted in the campaign of 1993 that he would “rekindle the Rockefeller, Javits, Lefkowitz tradition” of New York’s GOP and “produce the kind of change New York City saw with … John Lindsay.” He ran on the Liberal Party line and supported Mario Cuomo in 1994.Pro-abortion, anti-gun, again and again he strutted up Fifth Avenue in the June Gay Pride parade and turned the Big Apple into a sanctuary city for illegal aliens. While Ward Connerly goes state to state to end reverse discrimination, Rudy is an affirmative-action man. […]
I will, Rudy promises, nominate Scalias. Only one more may be needed to overturn Roe. And I will keep Hillary out of the White House.
A Giuliani presidency would represent the return and final triumph of the Republicanism that conservatives went into politics to purge from power. A Giuliani presidency would represent repudiation by the party of the moral, social and cultural content that, with anti-communism, once separated it from liberal Democrats and defined it as an institution.
Rudy offers the right the ultimate Faustian bargain: retention of power at the price of one’s soul.
Read Pat’s entire column here.
When the blue-blood-Rockefeller-Petro-Latta-Country-Club types ran the GOP, the party in Congress was in the minority for many decades. And a Giuliani presidency would only increase the conservative crackup in the Republican Party.
We should be telling the Rockefeller wing of the GOP to take a back seat… Instead, I fear that a Rockefeller Republican will likely be the GOP’s 2008 nominee.
Any conservative who wouldn’t vote in a Rudy VS. Hillary race is simply throwing the baby out with the bath water. I was talking with a hard right republican shortly after the 2006 election who was happy that Mike DeWine had lost the senate race. I understand that DeWine wasn’t the greatest senator in the world but Sherrod Brown is clearly much worse and I would much rather see McConnell as majority leader now than Reid.
Besides Hillary’s many socialist views she would bring with her a much more liberal State Department, Attorney General and probably two hard left Supreme Court justices.
I was a HUGE Blackwell fan but, that said, we can not put up a top of the ticket like that again. I know that Taft had a huge drag but the fact is that Ken got trounced more that anyone on the ticket last year and it enabled the Democrats to take a few down ticket races that could have swung our way.
We need Rockefeller Republicans to win sometimes. For this cycle another Bush like candidate is going to get crushed and take contested Senate and House races with them.
If Rudy puts a Huckabee like candidate on the ticket and has a successful term as president (like his two mayoral terms) we have a chance to do some much needed repair of the Republican brand and hold on to the White House for a few more terms.
The real problem is that you’re not putting up candidates that are conservative enough.
Blackwell wasn’t conservative enough is that it? Rick Santorum?
Rockefeller Republicanism is back to the 1970’s.
And back then we were 100 seats down in the House.
It is electoral death.
Latta on par with Petro and Rockefeller? You already sold your sold, Matthew.
Rudy’s more conservative than Rocky ever was PLUS Rudy has real conservative accomplishments to point to.
Out of curiosity I am wondering how an uber conservative felt about a liberal, fake republican like the guy in this add endorsing super republican ken blackwell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op_hEf_fLhc
I was the one who posted that video on youtube… and it bugged me. Almost as much as when Mitt Romney wrote Mr. Blackwell’s health care plan…. which is now Hillary’s new healthcare plan.
thank-you for the honesty! i figured you couldn’t have stomached it.
I’ve never been anything less than honest, for I can not tell a lie.
Ken may have had some lousy endorsements, but he had some brilliant policy ideas and is quite a policy wonk- But I guess that was no match for folksy, Huckleberry Strickland.
i DIDN’T mean not stomach being honest…i meant you not able to stomach Rudy endorsing Ken Blackwell…hope that didn’t come across wrong!
I understood perfectly. I just wanted to add that I’m honest about such topics.