The New York Times reported yesterday Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani is planning to affirm his pro-abortion position for strategic reasons: Many liberal states have bumped up their primary date to “Tsunami Tuesday,” February 5, ahead of primaries of more conservative states. According to the NYT:

Mr. Giuliani’s campaign… is eyeing a path to the nomination that would try to de-emphasize the early states in which abortion opponents wield a great deal of influence. Instead they would focus on the so-called mega-primary of Feb. 5, in which voters in states like California, New York and New Jersey are likely to be more receptive to Mr. Giuliani’s social views than voters in Iowa and South Carolina.

Giuliani is gambling he can win the nomination with the minority pro-abortion GOP vote as the sole abortion supporter in a field of 10.
This means Giuliani is not just taking a personal gamble, he is gambling the entire Republican Party.

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According to Time magazine, Giuliani has “decided that the reign of social conservatives is coming to an end. ‘He understands that there are a lot of Republicans out there who are sick of everyone kowtowing to the single-issue extremists,’ said one veteran Republican observer in Washington. ‘He’s breaking from the pack.'”
I wonder why MSM never considers that Democrat voters might be getting sick of their party’s radical support of abortion. Nevertheless, the conservatives response, quoting the NYT:

[S]aid Phyllis Schlafly… “The Republican Party has been pro-life in its platform ever since 1976, the first platform after Roe, and I think most of the Republicans understand they can’t afford to lose the pro-life constituency.”
Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, the conservative magazine, said, “You can’t win as a pro-choicer who is going to deliberately set on challenging the party’s orthodoxy on the issue.”

Abortion has emerged as the central news issue this past week thanks to an examination of Romney’s pro-life conversion and Giuliani’s equivocation during the debates.
Bearing in mind education is key, pro-lifers should view these unfolding events as a gift and not a threat and focus on educating the American public on what it means to be “pro-choice.”
The polls are in our favor. Most Americans oppose late-term abortions. Most Americans oppose abortion for convenience – as a secondary means of birth control. Most importantly, we have the truth on our side.
At some point down the road we’re going to have to decide as a group to support one of the nine pro-life candidates. We don’t have to do that yet. They are all still wooing us, and we should take this time to get as many promises from them we can. But the day will come.

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