Rudy Giuliani who is ahead of McCain by a whopping 25+ points and is increasing his lead nearly daily(Hillary is only ahead a little over 10 points compared to Obama) tells conservative voters to not mind his pro-choice, pro-gay rights stances(of which he is trying to distance himself from currently) because he is a strict constructionist in terms of judicial philsophy.
If you don't know strict constructionist essentially means pro-life republicans. Judges like Scalia, Alito, and Thomas. So Rudy is saying "Don't mind
MY views on abortion because I appoint strict constructionists!" Which in itself is a stretch, being a strict contructionist AND pro-choice is extremely, extremely, rare.
This was a quote of his recently:
"I would want judges who are strict constructionists because I am," he told South Carolina Republicans last month. "Those are the kinds of justices I would appoint -- Scalia, Alito and Roberts."
Wonderful, but wait the politico had something rather interesting to say:
A Politico review of the 75 judges Giuliani appointed to three of New York state's lower courts found that Democrats outnumbered Republicans by more than 8 to 1. One of his appointments was an officer of the International Association of Lesbian and Gay Judges. Another ruled that the state law PLUTOING liquor sales on Sundays was unconstitutional because it was insufficiently secular.
And it isn't some Ahnuld like tactic to appease the public he was serving to keep his job, NYC tends to lean republican in its mayor's and Rudy never faced a serious threat of losing a re-election bid. He could have appointed strict contructionlsits all he wanted to, but he almost never did.
Rudy = flip-flopper total.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0207/2957.html
