Rudy, Mitt and McCain Prove (Again) They’re not Conservatives
Ah hell I might as well admit I did not watch the debate, I simply don’t care what any of these Republicans have to say because I think they are full of crap.
This is just a lousy field of candidates and judging by what this dude said, watching other meaningless TV stuff was the right thing to do.
I think I’ll watch that Fred Thompson clip again. The slam on Michael Moore, far far more interesting.
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Sphere: Related Contentby Jed Babbin - Human Events
Though otherwise almost perfectly valueless, the South Carolina debate did prove one thing: three of the top four candidates – Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. John McCain and Gov. Mitt Romney – are not conservatives by any reasonable definition. The debate was within reach of any of the three to win, but each nearly lost it. After the first Republican candidates’ encounter, in which Mayor Giuliani famously blew it on the issue of overturning Roe v. Wade, he had his big chance in Columbia last night. Fox News’ Chris Wallace asked him how he – a pro-choice, pro-gun control Republican who once supported liberal Democrat Mario Cuomo for governor of New York – could claim to be a conservative.
Giuliani danced around the question through his allotted time, and when Wallace extended the time for another thirty seconds “…so you can answer the question…”, the best Giuliani could do is to say that the important issue was to unite against the threat of a Democratic win. If it weren’t for Cong. Ron Paul (and Brit Hume’s later questions about terrorist interrogation) Rudy’s campaign might have crashed to a halt last night. But it didn’t. Giuliani is still in it, though more clearly than ever something other than a conservative.
Neither McCain or Romney did any better than Giuliani for one simple reason: when questioned about the core conservative issues, neither has a decent record, or even a decent answer.
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