Third party candidate in 2008? Bad news for America’s ex-husband…
The Times is reporting that evangelicals may mount a third-party candidacy if Giuliani is the Republican noiminee:
Alarmed at the chance that the Republican party might pick Rudolph Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives is threatening to back a third-party candidate in an attempt to stop him.
The group making the threat, which came together Saturday in Salt Lake City during a break-away gathering during a meeting of the secretive Council for National Policy, includes Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, who is perhaps the most influential of the group, as well as Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, the direct mail pioneer Richard Viguerie and dozens of other politically-oriented conservative Christians, participants said. Almost everyone present expressed support for a written resolution that “if the Republican Party nominates a pro-abortion candidate we will consider running a third party candidate.â€
I”ll write more about this issue later, but there are three things to remember about the reproductive rights issue (I’ll provide the data when I have time to do a longer post, maybe later this week):
- 1. The choice issue is by far the most important political issue in terms of moving votes.
- 2. The Republicans will never have Roe v. Wade overturned except by accident (i.e. some SC judge rules differently that expected). The issue as it currently stands works greatly to their advantage. Overturning Roe would be killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
- 3. There are many thoughtful and otherwise progressive people who are anti-choice.
For whatever reason, the term “America’s ex-husband” always makes me thinking of Bill Clinton because I guess my mind thinks Hillary should have divorced him.
lol - I always think of Bill immediately too. It always takes me a minute to realize we’re talking about Rudy.