Christian conservatives met in Salt Lake City on Saturday to discuss the possibility of backing a third-party candidate should the Republican Party nominate a pro-choice candidate, namely Rudy Giuliani.
The group making the threat, which came together Saturday in Salt Lake City during a break-away gathering during a meeting of the secretive Council for National Policy, includes Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, who is perhaps the most influential of the group, as well as Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, the direct mail pioneer Richard Viguerie and dozens of other politically-oriented conservative Christians, participants said. Almost everyone present expressed support for a written resolution that “if the Republican Party nominates a pro-abortion candidate we will consider running a third party candidate.”
However, not everyone in the Christian Right are firmly behind running a third-party candidate — yet.
Rev. Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcast Network, for example, has provided relatively generous coverage to Mr. Giuliani and his campaign. Gary Bauer, a Christian conservative political advocate and a Republican primary candidate eight years ago, said that, speaking by phone to the meeting, he urged the group to proceed with caution. “I can’t think of a bigger disaster for social conservatives, defense conservatives, and economic conservatives than Hillary Clinton in the White House,” Mr. Bauer said.
Still, he added, “But I do believe there are certain core issues for the Republican Party—low taxes, strong defense and pro life— and if we nominate some who is hostile on one of those three thing it will blow up the GOP.”
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To be quite honest I have been shocked that Rudy has stayed in the top of the polls with his liberal views on abortion. His personal life is way out of step with the usual conservative image. I have been waiting for the conservatives to wake up to the total package that is truly Rudy.I think the mass email that went out about two weeks ago … Family Action Alert got the word out. I thought it was funny to hear Rudy using the Bible to defend his personal life.No one is throwing stones at Rudy. As a private citizen he can live however he sees fit.However sound judgement is needed when selecting a leader and how he has conducted himself in his personal life is one way that he should & will be judged. In America we still want a President that we can look up to. Not one who dresses up in womens clothes, does the can-can in nylons and cheats on his wife.
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October 1, 2007 at 2:06am