LibertyEagle
11-06-2007, 07:35 AM
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Paul Weyrich, one of the nation’s most influential conservative leaders, says he is out to prevent Rudy Giuliani from winning the Republican nomination for president — and predicts the religious right will unite behind any GOP candidate except Rudy.
In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.com, Weyrich also predicts Republicans face a “disaster” in the Senate in next year’s elections, says Hillary Clinton would be the easiest Democratic candidate to defeat, and charges that the Bush administration’s Iraq policy has been a “mistake” from the beginning.
Weyrich is no stranger to speaking his mind. As Chairman and CEO of the Washington-based Free Congress Foundation, he has long been recognized as one of America’s most thoughtful and principled conservatives.
He was founding president of the Heritage Foundation, one of the largest and most respected public policy research institutes and a major force in advancing conservative policies.
Newsmax: Do you agree with [Focus on the Family founder Dr. James] Dobson — will he bolt the GOP if Giuliani wins the nomination?
Weyrich: I think we have to examine that very carefully. It seems to me that we would want to make sure that we don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. I think it’s too early to make that judgment. I’m not for Giuliani. I want to try to stop him from getting the nomination.
Newsmax: Is there any way the party can support a candidate who supports abortion and gay rights like Giuliani?
Weyrich: If he simply opposes a constitutional amendment but supports the Hyde Amendment [banning use of federal funds for abortion], supports parental notification, parental consent, and a whole number of other things, we can probably live with that.
The gay rights issue is much more complicated. He would have to renounce outright his current position. Unless we could get that from him I don't know that we can support him.
Newsmax: What do you think of Mitt Romney?
Weyrich: I think he is somebody who is rushing toward the movement trying to present himself as a conservative and in some ways it's more useful to have somebody like that. I think he could be supported.
Newsmax: What about Mike Huckabee?
Weyrich: I like him and he certainly is somebody who can give a stemwinder but I have learned so many things about his waffling positions, and conservatives in Arkansas don't like him at all. They say he left the conservative movement in Arkansas in shambles when he left the governorship early this year. There are a whole lot of things – he came out for civil unions, he came out for D.C. statehood - that cause me not to be able to support him.
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/weyrich_giuliani_stop/2007/11/05/46921.html?s=al&promo_code=3C78-1
Why isn't he supporting Dr. Paul? :confused:
Paul Weyrich, one of the nation’s most influential conservative leaders, says he is out to prevent Rudy Giuliani from winning the Republican nomination for president — and predicts the religious right will unite behind any GOP candidate except Rudy.
In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.com, Weyrich also predicts Republicans face a “disaster” in the Senate in next year’s elections, says Hillary Clinton would be the easiest Democratic candidate to defeat, and charges that the Bush administration’s Iraq policy has been a “mistake” from the beginning.
Weyrich is no stranger to speaking his mind. As Chairman and CEO of the Washington-based Free Congress Foundation, he has long been recognized as one of America’s most thoughtful and principled conservatives.
He was founding president of the Heritage Foundation, one of the largest and most respected public policy research institutes and a major force in advancing conservative policies.
Newsmax: Do you agree with [Focus on the Family founder Dr. James] Dobson — will he bolt the GOP if Giuliani wins the nomination?
Weyrich: I think we have to examine that very carefully. It seems to me that we would want to make sure that we don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. I think it’s too early to make that judgment. I’m not for Giuliani. I want to try to stop him from getting the nomination.
Newsmax: Is there any way the party can support a candidate who supports abortion and gay rights like Giuliani?
Weyrich: If he simply opposes a constitutional amendment but supports the Hyde Amendment [banning use of federal funds for abortion], supports parental notification, parental consent, and a whole number of other things, we can probably live with that.
The gay rights issue is much more complicated. He would have to renounce outright his current position. Unless we could get that from him I don't know that we can support him.
Newsmax: What do you think of Mitt Romney?
Weyrich: I think he is somebody who is rushing toward the movement trying to present himself as a conservative and in some ways it's more useful to have somebody like that. I think he could be supported.
Newsmax: What about Mike Huckabee?
Weyrich: I like him and he certainly is somebody who can give a stemwinder but I have learned so many things about his waffling positions, and conservatives in Arkansas don't like him at all. They say he left the conservative movement in Arkansas in shambles when he left the governorship early this year. There are a whole lot of things – he came out for civil unions, he came out for D.C. statehood - that cause me not to be able to support him.
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/weyrich_giuliani_stop/2007/11/05/46921.html?s=al&promo_code=3C78-1
Why isn't he supporting Dr. Paul? :confused: