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GOP LIKELY FINISHED IF GIULIANI GETS NOMINATION

Posted on: October 01, 2007

By Bryan Fischer, Executive Director, Idaho Values Alliance

If Rudy Giuliani wins the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, the GOP will – and should – forfeit any chance it has to become the majority party in Congress for years to come.

Giuliani is pro-abortion and a supporter of the homosexual agenda, positions which are starkly out of phase with the core, pro-life, pro-family principles clearly articulated in the Republican Party platform.

A coalition of around 50 influential Christian conservatives, including James Dobson of Focus on the Family and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, met Saturday, and emerged with a threat to back a third-party candidate if the GOP runs Giuliani as its presidential candidate.

The pro-faith, pro-life, pro-family community in America simply will not support a pro-abortion candidate, nor should it. If the Republican Party truly stands for the sanctity of life, it should no more run a pro-abortion candidate than the Republican Party of 1860 would have run a slaveholder for president.

Many will argue that pro-family conservatives should vote for Giuliani just to keep Sen. Clinton from occupying the highest office in the land.

But the issue comes down to this: how much value do we place on the life of a baby in the womb? If we truly believe that abortion is the killing of an innocent human being, it is difficult to imagine we could find a way to support a candidate who wants to protect that gruesome practice.

Imagine for the moment that you are living in Germany in the early 1940s, and there is a candidate who wants your vote. You like everything about this candidate, every position he takes, except for one thing: he is determined to protect the practice of gassing Jews.

There is simply no way a citizen with a functioning human conscience could permit himself to vote for such a candidate, no matter how appealing he might be on other matters.

But for a pro-life citizen to support a pro-abortion candidate is fundamentally no different. It should come as no surprise, then, that conservative leaders who believe passionately in the sanctity of human life cannot find a way to support a party which runs a pro-abortion candidate for president.

As Gary Bauer said, “I do believe that there are certain core issues for the Republican Party – low taxes, strong defense and pro life – and if we nominate some(one) who is hostile on one of those three thing(s) it will blow up the GOP.”

According to the New York Times, the group’s sense of urgency to take a position now came after hearing from Tony Perkins of FRC that Giuliani could win the nomination if he wins the early Florida primary. The coalition concluded that immediate action is necessary if any chance remains to slow the momentum gathering behind Giuliani’s candidacy.

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