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1. Ken Howell Oct 30th, 2007 at 12:09 pm

   A Strategy for the Left, David Greenberg Shows the Way“

   You wouldn’t know it from reading the papers, but the favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination is a confirmed right-winger.” So says David Greenberg in his Washington Post article Rudy a Lefty? Yeah, Right. last Sunday. Yes, that David Greenberg, the ultra-liberal Assistant Professor of Journalism & Media Studies and History at Rutgers University. And he has mapped the strategy for the democrats in next year’s presidential election: if not Hillary, then Rudy, which means Hillary. But first, they have to get Rudy nominated. Hence, Rudy must be just to the right of Attila the Hun.

   In his article Greenberg qualifies as a contortionist in trying to have us believe that Giuliani is tied to Bush-era conservatism on everything from free speech and religion to civil liberties and pornography. By doing so, he hopes to sway moderates to the new and improved centrist, Hillary Clinton.

   Never mind Rudy’s liberalism on guns, gay rights and abortion. Those positions, Greenberg claims, “don’t render Giuliani a liberal or a moderate so much as an occasional and tepid dissenter from the Republican Party Line.” You see, Rudy had staunch support as mayor for “trigger-happy cops.“ Though Rudy lived with a gay couple after splitting with his second wife, it’s his “policy stands, not private behavior“ that define his ideology. And, of course on abortion, Giuliani is just “technically pro-choice“ but far from liberal.

   Greenberg and his ilk believe labels like “liberal” and “moderate” when applied to Giuliani matter less to Republican voters than his stand on crime and his holy grail, 9-11. And they call in the reinforcements. First, George Stephanopoulos, on his ABC News show, brought up a Washington Post/Gallup poll showed that 69 percent of “religious Republican evangelicals” considered the mayor an “acceptable nominee.” And Greenberg pulled out the Pew Poll that found that only 7 percent of Republican voters thought abortion important, compared to 31 percent who mentioned Iraq.

   The Clinton spin machine, ala David Greenberg, is already distorting political reality. Well, I’m not buying it. Either you are for the second amendment or not. Private behavior has always been the test of a person’s ideology. And there is no such thing as being “technically pro-choice“.

   Note to Hillary and Rudy: Edward R. Lyman once said, “Principle - particularly moral principle - can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true.”

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