Former RNC web guru Patrick Ruffini signed onto the Rudy Giuliani campaign over a month ago. The only semi-coherent response on Giuliani’s social liberalism that I’ve seen is that Giuliani’s views are known and digested by conservative Republican primary voters. On the blurb portion of his blog he points to a Fox News poll that shows:

“Giuliani jumps to 56 – 31 lead in a head-to-head GOP primary matchup with McCain. And by a 2-to-1 margin, GOP primary voters have an accurate view of the Mayor’s positions on social issues. “

Ruffini’s characterization isn’t quite accurate since the Fox poll asks whether Republicans know if Giuliani is Pro-Life or Pro-Choice. 42% say they know he’s pro-choice while 21% think he’s pro-life and 36% of Republican primary voters don’t know whether Giuliani is pro-choice or pro-life. On a previous question in the same poll Republican voters are asked whether they’re more likely or less likely to vote for a candidate who is pro-choice and pro-gay rights. 46% of Republican primary voters say they’re less likely to vote for a pro-choice candidate and by a margin of 50% to 8% they say they’re less likely to support a candidate that supports civil unions for gays and lesbians.

Here’s the second question about Giuliani’s campaign. He’s certainly in a very strong position in the Republican primary but if he were to become the Republican nominee for president could Republicans ever run social issue campaigns against Democrats again with a straight face?

Ed. Note: While searching for candidate video’s I found this newly uploaded video that has some conservatives asking themselves the same question about Giuliani.

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Posted by Kombiz Lavasany
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 1:29 am

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