Daily Ramblings:
Political World ...05/01/2005
09:57:14 am
Did I just hear Pat Robertson endorse Rudy
Giuliani for president in 2008, on ABC's This
Week show?
Indeed.
He had mentioned a number of other names,
including Sam Brownback, but when Georgie
Stephanoupolous asked him directly about Rudy
Giuliani or John McCain, he said that he thought Rudy
had been a great mayor of New York City and would
make "a good president." He went on to
indicate that he wouldn't endorse John McCain for
president under any circumstances.
Considering Rudy's position on the social issues
at the heart of Pat Robertson's agenda, this is big
news. Robertson indicated that he considers Rudy a
friend, and "a good Catholic."
I know it's ludicrous to speculate about 2008 so
early, but since I've nothing better to do, it's
worth asking the question: is a possible third way to
the Republican nomination opening up here?
Robertson and the voters he symbolizes (and
millions of others besides) cannot vote for someone
who would fight to uphold Roe v Wade, and
who would nominate judges accordingly. It's just not
conceivable, and for good reason. This is an issue
that was taken away from the American people by the
Supreme Court in 1973, and the battle has been and
will continue to be based squarely at that Court
until some crack begins to show.
However, what if Rudy, while not personally
opposing a right to abortion, made it clear that his
philosophy in nominating judges was the same as
George W. Bush's; namely that he favors originalists
like Antonin Scalia? It is, in fact, an
intellectually consistent position. One can favor the
availability of abortion, while strongly disagreeing
with the legal reasoning of Roe v Wade, and
believing that the democratic legislative process
should be allowed to take its course on this issue.
This would result in the various states coming up
with (or reviving) their own abortion laws. Some
states would make little change to the current
abortion-on-demand status quo. Some few might ban the
practice in all cases except for when the life of the
mother needed to be saved. Most would likely allow
abortion but set a variety of limits on it. And a
real debate, no longer made moot by an oligarchical
judicial fiat, would take place among the people of
this country.
This is no more than the situation that the
current president would like to see prevail. With Pat
Robertson's rather astounding statement this morning,
is it also the situation that Rudy Giuliani, as a
presidential candidate, would favor?
It's the only way that Right Wing Bob
can make sense of what he said.
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