{"id":3765,"date":"2007-03-04T15:26:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T20:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/03\/04\/shut-up-and-eat-your-peas\/"},"modified":"2007-03-04T15:26:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T20:26:54","slug":"shut-up-and-eat-your-peas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/03\/shut-up-and-eat-your-peas\/","title":{"rendered":"*Shut Up and Eat Your Peas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fr. Martin Fox has a great post "Weekly Standard: throw prolifers under the bus<\/a>" about all of the Rudy Giuliani support.<\/p>\n

Also Jay Anderson posts in response to Fr. Fox’s post Weekly Standard to Pro-Lifers: Shut Up and Eat Your Peas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have found all this Giuliani apologetics in recent weeks to be quite sickening. Why is the GOP looking for their own version of President Clinton? Whatever happened to character mattering which was the bugle call during the Clinton years?<\/p>\n

We hear that he will give us judges in the mode of Scalia as the constant refrain. That even though he is pro-abortion he will vote the right way on these issues. So I guess now if a candidate is a hypocrite it is okay as long he votes with us. It doesn’t matter what he believes, it is how he acts. Now we have come to find this quite common among Democrats in how their personally held opinions won’t affect how they vote, and they were rightly mocked for this total lack of personal integrity. Now though we are using open-arms to welcome candidates with the exact same schism between beliefs and actions. Only it is acceptable if the personal schism goes the right way.<\/p>\n

Though this idea of Giuliani appointing judges that are strict constructionalist is pretty laughable. He didn’t do this<\/a> in his eight years as mayor where he appointed Democrats over Republicans 8 to 1 with many outright abortion supporters. His pick of judges was praised by NARAL Pro-Choice New York.<\/p>\n

Somehow I guess we are suppose to ignore all of his character flaws, affairs, and being the wrong side on so many issues because he will be good concerning the war on terror. That he can be wrong on so many issues of much importance, yet he will be near flawless in his choices in the fight against terrorism. Responding quite well in aftermath of the 9\/11 attack does not mean that he will make the right moral choices in fighting terrorism.<\/p>\n

Giuliani I mentioned would be our version of Bill Clinton in many ways, and in many others he will be our version of John Kerry. Kerry is a Catholic who is personally opposed, yet would vote for abortion. Giuliani as a Catholic is personally for but will vote against it. They are flip-flop mirror images of each other concerning abortion though they are quite syncopated on many other social issues. Why in the world is so many in the GOP running down the hill to make their first Catholic nominee someone hardly distinguishable from Democratic versions of the same? Exactly where is the clamor for Communion to be denied for Rudy as there was for John Kerry? Though Rudy isn’t the nominee yet and I hope the day never comes where he is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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