New Republican Party Blog puts this story together. Here is an insight into who Rudy Giuliani really is:
Giuliani’s first wife, Regina, told Giuliani biographer Wayne Barrett that when she and Rudy separated in 1980, “she . . . still considered him to be a liberal Democrat.” She also said that “[Rudy] generally won’t do things unless he believes them . . . but he’s not a saint, and he will do things that serve his interests.”
In college, he attacked Barry Goldwater as an “incompetent, confused and sometimes idiotic man.”
“He only became a Republican after he began to get all these jobs from them,” Rudy’s mother, Helen Giuliani, told Barrett. “He’s definitely not a conservative Republican. He thinks he is, but he isn’t.”
Granted, this case from his ex-wife. His #1 of 3, actually. But she knew his political and personal inclinations. A little on abortion by Rudy from the 90s:
“Their fear of me is that I’m going to be a beachhead for the establishment of a more progressive form of Republicanism,” said Giuliani.-New York Newsday, October 8, 1993
“I’d give my daughter the money for it [an abortion].”
“I never called for the overturning of Roe vs. Wade.”-Giuliani, New York Newsday, September 1, 1989
“The simple fact is that whether I am the Mayor or [Democrat David Dinkins] the Mayor, it’s going to be the same for women who want an abortion. I’m going to fund abortion, to make certain that poor women are not deprived of an abortion, and I’m going to oppose making abortion illegal. That’s a non-issue.”-Giuliani, New York Times, September 20, 1989
Rudy has a lot of explaining to do. How does he square all these positions with those he has now? He hates abortion now. Doesn't sound like he hated abortion then.
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