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April 5th, 2007 by Gary M. Miller

As regular readers will know, I spent much of the last several months playing “footsie” with Mayor Giuliani as my presidential candidate. Even as the doctrinaire Reaganite I am, the Mayor’s commitment to constitutional originalism — along with Reaganesque positions on national defense and taxes — persuaded me he could be trusted. While no one could mistake Hizzoner’s personal belief in abortion rights, my thought process (and that of a good number of conservatives) was that his commitment to appoint judges in the mold of Roberts, Alito and Thomas would make him “functionally pro-life”.

That’s why I am enormously dismayed to read this morning that the Mayor essentially reaffirmed his defense of taxpayer funding of abortion. As another Italian-American of enormous stature might declare, “he’s dead to me.”

Erick of RedState explains why Rudy’s position is untenable. It takes hard work to offend social and fiscal conservatives but the Mayor has somehow managed to do so. As I wrote last month, “It’s one thing to be in favor of something roughly half the nation considers to be genocide. It is quite another to ask those folks to pay for it.”

What a shame.

Posted: April 5, 2007 at 9:42 am
Under: 2008, abortion, conservatism, federal judiciary | 4 Comments »

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4 Responses to “How he lost me”

Residual Forces » Blog Archive » You Can Take Rudy Out Of the Liberal Town, but You Can’t Take the Liberal Out of Rudy Says:
April 5th, 2007 at 11:19 am
[...] As my good friend Gary Miller has found out, Rudy’s race to the social right may not be all it’s cracked up to be. I am as dismayed to read this morning that the Mayor essentially reaffirmed his defense of taxpayer funding of abortion. As another Italian-American of enormous stature might declare, “he’s dead to me.” [...]
terry Says:
April 5th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Dang. I had one foot up on the “functionally pro-life” bandwagon until seeing Rudy’s interview yesterday. As far as I’m concerned he has rejoined the “personally opposed and find abhorrent but never miss an opportunity to support, subsidize and perpetuate that which I oppose and find abhorrent” crowd—which makes him functionally pro-abortion.
jroosh Says:
April 5th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
He’s toast. Even if you can stretch your morality to allow for a pro-choice perspective (which I can’t by the way) it’s hard to argue for taxpayer-funded abortions and carry the GOP banner. He would have had a shot if he could have just kept his mouth shut on the topic but I suppose its best to know his stance now.
Truth v. The Machine » Archives » Finding a kerfuffle where none exists Says:
September 7th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
[...] Were we Giuliani “plants”, part of a carefully scripted Q&A? Hardly. Kavon has been a died-in-the-wool Giuliani supporter for months and there is no mistaking his point of view on Race42008. My friend Scott, however, was a big Thompson supporter heading into yesterday. I was leaning that way. If the Mayor’s advance team had known I have written such things as this this and this in the past, I’m sure they would have prudently found more friendly environs at another table. The meeting was purely serendipitous. [...]