{"id":81,"date":"2007-10-31T13:06:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T13:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/10\/gary-bauer-offers-giuliani-car.html"},"modified":"2007-10-31T13:06:11","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T13:06:11","slug":"gary-bauer-offers-giuliani-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/10\/gary-bauer-offers-giuliani-car.html","title":{"rendered":"Gary Bauer Offers Giuliani Carrots and Sticks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Culture warrior Gary Bauer<\/a> seems to throw down the gauntlet on Rudy Giuliani in this morning’s Politico<\/a>, claiming that A) Giuliani’s rightward shift on abortion is a flip-flop and B) he needs to do a lot more to improve his standing among religious conservatives (remember his 8th-place finish in the recent Values Voter straw poll<\/a>?).
\nBauer doesn’t mind Giuliani’s conservative evolution on issues like parental consent and the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, he just thinks the supposedly honest-at-all-costs ex-Mayor should own up to it:<\/p>\n

Anti-abortion voters are anxious to believe politicians who say they have had a change of heart on abortion. But it is disingenuous for Giuliani to call out his opponents\u2019 flip-flops while ignoring his own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But Bauer hits Giuliani where it hurts in calling him out on the position that Giuliani has held up as the single best reason for Christian conservatives to support him: his promise to appoint strict constructionist judges<\/a> to the Supreme Court. Bauer notes that “strict constructionist” doesn’t necessarily translate into anti-Roe <\/em>and insist that Giuliani clarify his intentions once and for all:<\/p>\n

To assuage the doubts of leery anti-abortion voters, Giuliani needs to specify that the \u201cstrict constructionists\u201d he would appoint do not see a right to abortion in the Constitution and do not view Roe as so benign that it should be upheld as precedent. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Doing so would make Giuliani into an anti-abortion candidate, a flip-flop so huge it’s nearly impossible to imagine. And yet God-o-Meter can’t help but think that Bauer knows this. So is Bauer extending a hand for negotiation rather than throwing that gauntlet down? If so, it’s good news for Giuliani–and reveals even more nervousness in the Christian Right<\/a>. Consider the headline of the piece: Right can win with President Giuliani.<\/strong><\/p>\n


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