Rudy's Weasels Aside, Giuliani Nomination Would End the Pro-Life Movement

This week's weasel is Rudy Giuliani. Currently he is trying to weasel out of 18 years of pro-choice stances by trying his hand at the "strict constructionist" dog whistle. Unfortunately for Giuliani everybody knows exactly what that means, and it doesn't square in any way with his record.

His fans in the New York Times try to rescue the shreds of Giuliani's resolute image by comparing him to Mitt Romney:

Those who have followed Mr. Giuliani’s career say he is unlikely to undergo a radical shift in his views in the manner of Mitt Romney, a Republican rival and former Massachusetts governor who advocated abortion rights until about two years ago.

Fred Siegel, author of “Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life,” said Mr. Giuliani would likely be careful to avoid anything perceived as a flip-flop on the issue.

“Part of his appeal is that he doesn’t bend in the wind,” he said.

Note to Mr Siegel, make that was part of his appeal. If Mitt Romney is your yard stick, Barney Fife looks resolute

The conservatives, for the most part aren't buying it, including the head of the Southern Baptists and activists in South Carolina, and well they shouldn't.  Giuliani has a list of actions as Mayor in favor abortion rights not just words, including support for protecting women's access to abortion clinics.  Despite a little wobbliness at the beginning of his career, there is no credible way to argue that Rudy Giuliani has been anything other than a pro-choice politician. Case in point, NARAL in 2000 considered him as pro-choice as Hillary Clinton.

Every pro-choice American should be rooting for Giuliani to get the GOP nomination. If an avowedly a pro-choice politician like Rudy Giuliani is able to either muscle out or weasel through the pro-life movement for the GOP nomination, the pro-life political movement is dead. Their credility has a potent or feared political force will be gone.

I certainly don't think any pro-choice American should want him to be President. His weaseling at the beginning of his career and now on choice, combined with the corruption and poor record on race in New York as Mayor, his corporate cronyism now, and his complete and total lack of any foreign policy experience disqualify him from serious consideration. 

But, every primary he ends up winning will be a humiliation to the social conservatives and sap on their power.