CNN: Thompson doesn't have a hunting license

Shocking! They really do need get some conservatives on staff so they don't look so foolish.

Thompson Pledge Day

If you want a candidate who is as pro-life as the other presidential candidates (Romney and Huckabee have both come out in favor of states rights at least once this year), who is pro-2nd Amendment and who is for smaller government and less taxes and who wants to clean up the mess that SS has become, then hit the pledge button on the sidebar and help out his campaign.

Giuliani doesn't understand the pro-life voter

Giuliani doesn't really get it how important the life issue is to some voters. He doesn't get that we don't care that he's a fiscal conservative (which is a point that's open to debate), the only issue that many pro-life voters care about is the abortion issue and wouldn't vote for a pro-choice candidate at any cost. It will be a matter of principle for them:

A day after Christian conservative leaders suggested they might support a third-party candidate if Giuliani got the Republican Party's nomination Giuliani said he was not focusing the issue.

"I'm working on one party right now, the Republican Party," he said after visiting patrons at Dino's Seaville Diner. "This is a long primary, and once there are nominees on either side, we'll figure that out."

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Although Giuliani was asked the question about social conservatives twice, he used each opportunity to address two other pertinent Republican issues -- his fiscal conservatism and his electability against Hillary Clinton.
And after being asked if the potential of losing the Christian right vote harms his viability as a general election candidate, Giuliani returned to his competitiveness against Clinton.

“Every poll shows that I would be, by far, the strongest candidate against Hillary Clinton,” he said, adding, “There hasn’t been one taken in the last six or seven months that shows anything other than I’m the Republican that has the best chance to beat her.”

A pro-choice Republican won't beat a pro-choice Democrat because there's no reason for the pro-life Democrats to vote for the Republican. He loses not only our pro-life voters but there's as well. I've blogged about that here.

And btw, it's not just the pro-life voters that won't be supporting Giuliani, the NRA members won't be supporting him -- there won't be crossover from NRA Democrats as well.

Giuliani doesn't bring too much to the nomination and I hope that will become clear as we approach the primaries.

Giulaini's gun position has evolved

I guess if Romney can get away saying that his positions have evolved, why shouldn't Rudy try it? But do we believe him? Can we trust him that he will protect our rights?

Glossing over the less appealing line items on his gun control resume, ex-NYC mayor Rudy c presented himself as sympathetic to the aims of the National Rifle Association and pledged, as president, to protect gun rights.

"Your right to bear arms is based on a reasonable degree of safety," he said.

He indicated that he would oppose new efforts to tighten national gun laws.

"I believe that law endforcement should focus on enforcing the laws that exist on the books as opposed to passing new extensions of laws," he said. "A person's home is their castle. They have the right to protect themselves in their own home."

Giulaini explained the lawsuit he initiated in 2000 against gun manufacturers by saying that he was "excessive in everyway that I could think of in order to reduce crime" but said that "intervening events" like September 11th had caused his views to evolve. "I think that lawsuit has gone in the direction that I don't agree with."

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Update: I don't think there's much chance of the gun owners accepting this change of heart and I don't think the other candidates will let him walk away from his record:

Second Amendment supporters say Rudy Giuliani's actions will speak louder than his words, when he addresses the National Rifle Association on Friday.

As Giuliani speaks, top officials from the gun industry will be in New York City, fighting a lawsuit the former mayor filed in 2000. The lawsuit seeks to hold firearms manufacturers responsible for the criminal misuse of their products.

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"It's not surprising that Mr. Giuliani is now courting the firearms industry and the National Rifle Association -- whose members he has referred to as extremists," said Keane.

"His support for gun control and contempt for the manufacturers, retailers and purchasers of firearms may have gained him praise in Gotham, but that will only handicap him in the rest of the country. He understands this and is now trying to backpedal."

When he became the only Republican mayor to sue the firearms industry seven years ago (the announcement can now be seen on YouTube), Giuliani said he was doing so because the industry was "profiting from the suffering of innocent people." Giuliani said the lawsuit was intended to "end the free pass that the gun industry has so long enjoyed."

In 2005, when President Bush signed a bill barring lawsuits intended to bankrupt the gun industry, the Giuliani lawsuit was specifically mentioned as an example of the "junk" lawsuits the new law was intended to stop.

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The National Rifle Association has invited Giuliani and other Republicans to a "celebration of American values" on Friday and Saturday. Most of the presidential hopefuls will be there -- among them, Sen. John McCain, who is planning to fire away at Giuliani's stance on guns.

Disarm America?

And just who does she think will do that (via)? Australia's military is piddling compared to ours. We have nukes aimed at China and Russia and we own the UN and NATO. And unlike Australia our citizens are armed to the teeth (I know some gun owners who could arm their entire neighborhood if we were invaded). Try and take those guns away and you would be in for quite a fight.

CNN/YouTube Debate Video: Biden Disses YouTuber

Questioning his mental capacity to own a gun.

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Um, it looks like Biden isn't going to get the NRA vote.