Rudy Still Favors Public Funding for Abortions

By: PM
Published On: 4/4/2007 5:57:01 PM

I don't have much to say about this news at this juncture, other than it is highly interesting.  I just wanted to make people aware of the news.  The CNN site has a video clip.

http://www.cnn.com/P...

When asked directly Wednesday if he still supported the use of public funding for abortions, Giuliani said "Yes."

"If it would deprive someone of a constitutional right," he explained, "If that's the status of the law, yes."

But the presidential candidate reiterated his personal opposition to the practice.

"I'm in the same position now that I was 12 years ago when I ran for mayor -- which is, personally opposed to abortion, don't like it, hate it, would advise that woman to have an adoption rather than abortion, hope to find the money for it," he said. "But it is your choice, an individual right. You get to make that choice, and I don't think society should be putting you in jail."***


Comments



He's already DOA in Iowa (Chris Guy - 4/5/2007 1:12:30 AM)
his campaign is totally waffling on whether or not he wants to seriously compete there. Nobody will caucus for him if they doubt his commitment.

It'll be a race between Romney & either Gingrich or F. Thompson.



It's going to be interesting (PM - 4/5/2007 7:55:25 AM)
Because Romney has that serious "change of position" baggage

It should be a fun campaign season



Romney Shoots Himself in Foot, Quite Metaphorically (PM - 4/5/2007 8:11:29 AM)
The AP headline:

Romney calls himself a longtime hunter

ShootFoot

As I said to Chris Guy above, it's going to be a fun campaign season.  The AP reports this morning:http://news.yahoo.co...

BOSTON - In boasting about his lifelong experience as a hunter, Mitt Romney may have shot himself in the foot.

The Republican presidential contender has told audiences on several occasions, most recently this week in gun-savvy - and early voting - New Hampshire, that he has been a longtime hunter. But it turns out he has been on only two hunting trips.

And one of those trips was a Cheney-like game preserve hunt:

In a question-and-answer session Tuesday in Keene, N.H., Romney spoke of his experience with hunting in a manner that suggested a close affiliation with the sport.

"I purchased a gun when I was a young man. I've been a hunter pretty much all my life," he told a man sporting a National Rifle Association cap.

Yet the former Massachusetts governor's hunting experience came during two trips at the bookends of his 60 years: as a 15-year-old, when he hunted rabbits with his cousins on a ranch in Idaho, and last year, when he shot quail on a fenced game preserve in Georgia.

The story keeps getting better about this serial prevaricator.  The main story also has some facts about his uneasy relationship with the NRA.

Republican candidates sure like to make up stuff.

BWA-HA-HA