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Rudy Meeting Today With Brownback
Rudy Giuliani will be in Washington today to meet with none other than Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), the social conservative and former presidential candidate who predicted during his withdrawal announcement that a pro-choicer could never win the Republican nomination.
"I'm going to meet with him and I'm going to talk to him and hear what he is specifically saying now because he's changed on a number of the abortion issues," Brownback said. He's changed on partial-birth [abortion] and he ... has said he would appoint strict constructionists."
If Rudy can get an endorsement from Brownback — or at the very least a satisfactory grade — it would definitely help him against Mitt Romney's push to unite social conservatives around an anti-Rudy push.
It's been so strange to watch how splintered the religious right has been. Brownback might not consider endorsing Huckabee, who is probably the closest on the issues, because of the tiff over his Catholic background. For a vaunted constituency, they don't seem to have a sense of their own power --- that they can make a frontrunner, which makes it all the more odd that they would consider uniting behind a third party candidate. Why not push a "third party" candidate now, in the Republican primary?
And on the flip side, it's strange to hear "value voters" arguing so much about electability: Romney or Guiliani.
October 25, 2007 10:51 AM | Reply | Permalink