WASHINGTON, March 2 — Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York are both Republican presidential candidates who have been voted into office by largely Democratic electorates. They both have a history of taking liberal positions on social issues. And both are viewed warily by conservative Republicans who are integral to the party’s presidential nominating process.
Mr. Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, and Mr. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, sought to address those challenges on Friday with speeches to conservative advocates gathered for an annual conference in Washington.
To a certain extent, they approached the task in similar ways: by presenting themselves as devotees of Ronald Reagan who had tamed Democratic excesses in their communities. Mr. Giuliani talked about cutting crime, welfare and taxes; Mr. Romney talked of cutting taxes and the size of government.
Yet they parted company on how they dealt with the more difficult question of their positions on social issues. Mr. Romney made no mention of his past support of abortion rights and gay rights, instead focusing on his current opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage. He portrayed himself as someone who stood at the barricades as his state sought to permit same-sex marriage and to remove restrictions from abortion and stem cell research.
“I stood at the center of the battlefield on every major social issue,” Mr. Romney said in a speech to the gathering, the Conservative Political Action Conference. “I fought to preserve our traditional values, and to protect the sanctity of human life. I vetoed bills. I filed new bills. I enforced a law that banned out-of-state same-sex couples from coming to Massachusetts to get married.”
Mr. Giuliani made no mention of his support for gay rights, abortion rights and gun control. Instead, he suggested that he and his audience had many more agreements than disagreements.
“Ronald Reagan used to say, ‘My 80 percent ally is not my 20 percent enemy,’ ” Mr. Giuliani said. “What he meant by that is, we don’t all see eye to eye on everything. You and I have a lot of common beliefs that are the same, and we have some that are different.”
Oh yeah? no way Guiliani, at least Romney is less for amnesty and the sell out of our country than you are. You may have saved NYC, but you lost our country.
Romney, I'll vote for you if you can keep your story straight, but.... I doubt you can and I bet you are going to be another GW Bush.
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