FLIP-FLOP! Giuliani backs down on rights for same-sex couples

[Bluebear]

(Attention, Bill Maher and others, you must stop calling Giuliani "pro-gay" now. He is no friend of ours.)

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Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani continues to discard the moderate and liberal positions of his past. The latest is civil unions for same-sex couples, which the Republican presidential candidate has been backing away from in recent months. A campaign aide told the Globe this weekend that Giuliani favors a much more modest set of rights for gay partners than civil union laws in effect in four states offer.

Giuliani has described himself as a backer of civil unions and is frequently described that way in news reports. But he began distancing himself from civil unions in late April, when his campaign told The New York Sun that New Hampshire's new law goes too far because it is "the equivalent of marriage," which he has always opposed for gays. Giuliani's aides offered little explanation of what specific rights he would support for same-sex couples...

Representatives of New York groups who advocate for abortion rights, gun control, and rights for immigrants, also said Giuliani's actions on the presidential trail, presenting himself to a more conservative GOP electorate, bears little resemblance to the man they knew as the stand-up mayor of Gotham in the 1990s who was open to moderate and liberal arguments.

More than any candidate in the Republican presidential field, rival Mitt Romney has been tagged with the flip-flopper label. But Giuliani, with late shifts on civil unions and federal campaign finance laws, is a political makeover in progress.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/08/13/giuliani_continues_his_conservative_shift/

[marmar]

1. He always has been a fraud.....

As someone who lived in New York during his reign of terror, I absolutely detest the man.

[Bluebear]

2. John Edwards: Giuliani is Bush on steroids.

:scared:

[IndianaJones]

3. Giuliani has clarified his position...he is for equal rights, not special rights....

this is the way the pandering begins. You have to appeal to the voter that holds to the belief that the stars are pinpricks in the tent that is the night sky.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Guess He Figgers He Just Has To Flip Flop Less Than Willard Romney

Which is pretty easy, since Willard ran to the LEFT of Teddy Kennedy in these parts a decade ago.

At least Il Douche is consistant on some of his views.

[lpbk2713]

5. Here ya go, Rudy .....

My one and only GOP campaign contrib. Enjoy.

[wicket]

6. Such a piece of shit

:grr: :grr:

[porphyrian]

7. Surprise! - n/t