{"id":416,"date":"2007-02-06T04:24:34","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T10:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/02\/05\/rudy-cant-fail-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2007-02-05T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T22:31:29","slug":"rudy-cant-fail-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Rudy Can’t Fail (Or Can He?): Part IV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two of my favorite regional conservative bloggers take up sides on Giuliani:<\/p>\n

Jay Reding<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If Giuliani can moderate his position and speak in the language that social conservatives understand, I don\u2019t necessarily think that there will be a huge backlash against him from social conservatives. Social conservatives aren\u2019t going to hand the White House to a John Edwards or a Hillary Clinton or a Barack Obama just because they have some issues with Giuliani. Even though some social conservatives might stay home, Giuliani can pick up the libertarian-leaning Republicans, fiscal conservatives, and moderates who abandoned the GOP in the 2006 cycle. So long as there\u2019s more of them then there are Republicans who would never consider Giuliani, he is still very much in the game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Assuming Giuliani doesn\u2019t flame out sometime in the next year or so which, admittedly, is always a possibility he has a strong chance at picking up the nomination. He\u2019s going to have to have a road-to-Damascus moment on the Second Amendment, but he\u2019s got the time to do so. Giuliani\u2019s greatest asset is that he exudes a sense of leadership \u2014 when he\u2019s in the room, there\u2019s no doubt that he\u2019s in charge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the other hand, TvM’s Jeff Kouba<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If Giuliani does not unequivocably state he believes abortion is wrong because it ends an unborn human life, period, I don\u2019t see Giuliani ever winning over conservatives on this one.<\/p>\n

Giuliani would have to hope he seems tough enough on matters of terrorism and national security for conservatives to give abortion a back seat in the list of priorities.<\/p>\n

And the trouble with that is the country is becoming weary of war, with seemingly little obvious progress in Iraq. Conservatives may be prone\u00a0to want to turn their attentions back home, wash their hands of the world, and focus again on domestic issues. If so, Giuliani will have a tough run for the party\u2019s nomination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m still nowhere close to figuring this one out.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two of my favorite regional conservative bloggers take up sides on Giuliani: Jay Reding: If Giuliani can moderate his position and speak in the language that social conservatives understand, I don\u2019t necessarily think that there will be a huge backlash against him from social conservatives. Social conservatives aren\u2019t going to hand the White House to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}