Wrong and straightforward trumps disingenuousness and disinterest

And They Are Off (Congressman Tom Tancredo the UnViable at Left)

After analytical Parts I and II (to be found here and here), there are two remaining facets of Rudy Giuliani’s record and disposition, juxtaposed with his those of his Viable co-primaryists Mitt Romney and John McCain, that serve to explain his large early lead.

The first of these is his uncomplicated admission of his incorrect positions, most specifically his stance on the act of aborting unborn babies. When queried thereon, he directly acknowledges his Elephantary differences on this vital base issue, but then goes on to point out his like-mindedness on a whole host of related matters, amongst them judicial activism and tyranny and the right of the people to decide these sorts of things for themselves.

The next time our elected representatives in Congress vote to give every American woman (and young girl) the unimpeded “right” to abortion will be the first. It is the underlying fact that this notion was forced upon us by unanswerable Supreme Court fiat that sticks in our collective craw almost or at least as much as, and with more people than, the act of abortion itself.

Justice Breyer, Displaying His Latest Sleight of Hand in Writing Law

A concept with which Giuliani is in complete agreement. On the issue itself, he may not agree with the vast majority of those doing the choosing in the Republican primary, but it is an honest disagreement, and they are all of an accord when it comes to the route to remedy.

Giuliani and the base know that Roe v. Wade was and remains a horrendous judicial decision. It is so because it is, in point of fact, not a judicial but a legislative one, made by those who are in their positions ostensibly to be interpreting, not writing, law. (If they wish to engage in the latter, they should remove the robes and run for the appropriate office.)

Giuliani has repeatedly stated that he would like to allow the people to decide the issue of abortion for themselves, and that in that vein he would replicate the constructionist likes of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas were he in a position to nominate judges and Justices, in order to return the act of lawmaking to the citizenry where it belongs.

If This Is Your Former Employer, Your Legal Competence Is Questionable

(His praise of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a bit disconcerting to be sure, certainly it is for me, but one can acknowledge her legal competence [though I do not] without at all liking her worldview or her judicial decisions. Lest one forget, she was confirmed 96-3 by the Senate, so Giuliani is by no means an island on this point.)

Legislative, Executive and Judicial, With Roles Properly Defined

It is agreement on this overarching principle of the roles of the governmental branches that allows for the at least partial pass on Giuliani’s candid abortion erroneousness.

Romney has been, as we have discussed, all over the map on abortion (and gay marriage). He was for them both before he was against them, in true fellow Massachusettsian John Kerry style. His having to run in that Bay State Blue Heaven is no excuse for his mendaciousness; else how does one explain Giuliani’s current overt faithfulness to his incorrect position? It would be much easier for the Mayor to blur the lines as has Romney, but he has not.

We are a great deal more familiar with Giuliani than the Media gives us credit, and his candor on abortion is of a part of what we know of the man. His is the true Straight Talk Express currently leaving the Republican station.

John McCain, Right At Home and Right For Once

In mention of the Maverick, McCain is, and has always been, staunchly pro-life, and sincere appreciation therefore is in order. However, it has almost become an implicit non-factor for him in the race, a long-since accounted for chit. And one that he has offset with his many other dreadful positions on many other issues of import.

An Important Part of the McCain Constituency

And it long since became all too obvious that the Senator cares not a whit for what his fellow Republicans think of him, preferring instead the adulation of the likes of the late Tom Brokaw, the self-immolated Dan Rather and the Discovery Channel’s Ted Koppel.

At least, that is, until he made the conscious and egregiously bad decision to seek the Republican Establishment nomination for the Presidency. It seems to me more than a might duplicitous to spend a career thumbing your nose at the Party, and then show up for a swan song curtain call in search of its aggregate affirmation.

Elephants, after all, never forget.

(Please stay tuned for Part IV.)