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Sunday, May 13, 2007
Kevin McCullough :: Townhall.com Columnist
Why Rudy is Striking Out...
by Kevin McCullough
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Mayor Rudy Giuliani intended to use the chance to address students and faculty at Houston Baptist University on Friday to boost his image and clarify his position - particularly on abortion. He also hoped to energize what is beginning to look like a campaign that is in complete meltdown.

He failed on every level.

Coming out of the first Presidential Candidate debate he was established as the clear loser in many respects. His mumbling, stumbling, bumbling and shrugging of the shoulders on the simple question put to him on the issue of Roe v. Wade truly isolated him from the rest of the field.

He is also bending believability.

In his address at HBU on Friday he took more time than I had heard him use in the past to describe the "two pillars" of his thinking on the matter.

The first pillar is his supposed personal belief that abortion is "deeply, profoundly, and always morally wrong." He belabored the point by emphasizing that if he were to counsel someone personally, that he would always advise them against abortion and would encourage them to have the baby. Once born, if they were unable to care for it, he would encourage them to consider the adoption option.

His second pillar was his belief that our society "must always grant the woman" the "right to make the choice". He didn't really elaborate on the specifics of what they would be choosing, but we are to assume that the choices are somewhere between the "always morally right" decision to have a child, or the "always immoral" decision to kill one.

The Mayor continued by addressing the issue of partial birth abortion. He added that he felt it should have been kept legal to protect the life and health of the mother. Interestingly enough the American Medical Association has denounced this method of ever being medically necessary to "save a woman's life." And the word "health" could be interpreted as lightly as "mental health" which could be interpreted as lightly as "I just don't FEEL like having this baby" which you then realize is in fact a term that means nothing.

Giuliani also seemed to imply that he opposed federal funding for abortion as part of his "giving the woman the option."

He then pledge to work to limit abortions, put restrictions on them, and for added good measure he bragged that adoptions went up under his administration in New York by some 130%.

The problem was the entire pretense of Giuliani's position on abortion is a sham, at least the side of viewing it as "always morally wrong." Moments before he was to give the address in Houston, Fox News Channel's Carl Cameron did a cut-in with an exclusive discovery. Cameron had uncovered a National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) Survey that Giuliani had filed with them in running for office back in 1997. In the Mayor's own handwriting exists the proof that Giuliani opposed parental notification, and any limits on the always unnecessary procedure of partial-birth abortions. He also advocated more federal funding for abortions. He has also given multiple donations to the racist genocidal organization that was founded upon the desire of eliminating blacks - Planned Parenthood.

Discerning people don't even need the evidence of a NARAL survey to see through Giuliani's ineptitude on moral issues. His stated "pillars" tell us everything we need to know.

With the discovery last week that gender can now be identified in the unborn child only six weeks after conception, coupled with the increasing abilities to see a child survive to a healthy life outside the womb, earlier and earlier in the pregnancy, the issue of personhood continues to be Giuliani's downfall.

Since he was in Houston, let's use a local example. Continued...

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Kevin McCullough is the nationally syndicated host of "'Xtreme' Radio and columnist based in New York. He blogs at www.muscleheadrevolution.com. His second book "The Kind Of MAN Every Man SHOULD Be" is in stores now.

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Constructionist Schmonstuctionist
I have arrived late.

Being a Constructionist does not mean that a judge will handle all cases while channeling John Jay, it just means that the person would not view creating law from the bench within the purview of the Judiciary.

What that means is that what is law is defined as what is currently ajudicated as such. Roe v. Wade plus Planned Parenthood v. Casey makes abortion law. A constructionist, especially in the eyes of an administrator like Rudy, could just as easily see Roe as legistlation via oligarchy or as well established law with which no must tamper.

Which makes his comment on slavery particularily disingenuous. Some judges had to be appointed to the bench in order to begin to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson with Brown v. Board and those judges would not fall under a constructionist rubric because they had taken part in overturning legistlation from the bench that was almost 60 years established. We need judges who understand that one day in 1973, because 5 people disagreed with 4 people, infanticide became a "choice" primarily for sexual convenience.

I am ferociously conservative but I would actually rather have a Democrat than Rudy or McCain. It comes down to the cooking frog metaphor. If you throw a frog in boiling water, the frog knows that it is hot and jumps out. If you throw a frog in cold water and then slowly heat the pot, all those cute little proteins in the from will slowly unfold and he will die a comfortable death.

Rudy is the cook with the cold water.

Hortensius

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