Rudy will not win in the face of the swiftboating, while I do not agree with Rudy on most policy issues, I still find his effort to bring moderation to the Republican party to be a worthwhile cause. I am under no illusions that Rudy would take advice from a progressive blog but that won't stop me from trying.
Rudy can not win and therefore he would be wise to continue his efforts to uphold seperation of church and state by taking the Republican party down with him by running as a third party . These religious bigots need stop blackmailing this nation with their intolerence and intrusion into American's lives, therefore I asking my fellow bloggers to reach out to Rudy and lay out the rationale for such a move. Think of the many moderates and Indepndents that would like to vote for the GOP minus the religious intrusion, Rudy has a chance to change this party for the better of all Americans who respect privacy and hold onto the quaint concept that the goverment should stay out of peoples bedrooms and love lifes.
Yes it will divide the Republican party but in the long run it just may save the GOP from the radical religious revival it has become.
In its campaign to thwart Giuliani, The Conservative Declaration is joined by a recently-established group named Fidelis, a Chelsea, Michigan-based organization with the goal of becoming the preeminent Catholic political operation within Republican ranks. (Data based on exit poll surveys in 2002, 2004 and 2006 suggest that about 20 percent of Republican primary voters are Catholic.) Fidelis was founded by Joseph Cella, who in 2004 founded the annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, an event regularly attended by President Bush. Federal Election Commission and IRS reports filed by the Fidelis PAC and the Fidelis Media Fund, two political arms of Fidelis, reveal the group raised only $22,386 in the 2005-2006 election cycle.
But Fidelis organized anti-Giuliani protests in April at the Republican debate in Columbia, South Carolina, and the group intends to be a constant presence at Giuliani events from now on. Cella, who is eager for publicity, contends that "using new media strategies and tactics, we can mobilize hundreds of thousands of people against an unacceptable nominee, or candidate in this case, and have a very powerful impact with a relatively small financial investment."
The anti-Giuliani group with the least visibility - but substantial ambition -- is run by Steve Dillard, a Catholic activist in Macon, Georgia. Dillard, a former a law clerk to conservative Judge Daniel A. Manion of the Seventh Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals, in 2002 created Southern Appeal, a conservative legal blog. He is currently launching a web site, Catholics Against Rudy, with the goal of becoming an integral part of the Catholic blogosphere, consisting of more than 1,000 web sites accessible at www.catholicblogs.com. A search for "Giuliani" on catholicblogs.com suggests that Dillard may have a ready audience: the overwhelming majority of posts are from people who share Dillard's belief that "a faithful Catholic cannot in good faith vote for Rudy Giuliani."
For now, the Giuliani campaign has adopted the same posture towards these adversaries as John Kerry initially did toward the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: no comment. The Swift Boat vets began on a shoe string, but by the end of 2004 had raised and spent $17 million. Giuliani no doubt hopes the Swifties will be a tough act to follow.
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