Tuesday, August 07, 2007

RUDY GIULIANI

Will The Pro-Life Grassroots Work For a GOP Headed By Rudy?

I'm looking for some thoughts from my readers.

My query is inspired by this thought by fellow campaign blogger Soren Dayton:

Let’s talk a little bit more about what a Rudy Giuliani nominee would mean... The first point to make is that the GOP, out of necessity would need to recruit a whole new set of volunteers. As I pointed out last week, pro-lifers form a significant portion of the GOP activist base. Those people will not volunteer for Rudy. Many of those activists won’t even vote for him. Let’s assume, for a second, that the GOP and the Giuliani campaign would be able to recruit a new activist base. This would shatter the grip that social conservative activists have on the grassroots of the party. As I said, transformative.

Specifically, I'd like to hear from you if A) you're involved in pro-life causes, groups, initiatives, etc., and/or if the abortion issue is a driving motivation for your involvement in politics and B) you've volunteered for a campaign at the federal, state, or local level in the past few cycles. (While I presume the vast majority of those campaigns would be Republican ones, I suppose it's possible you've worked on a Democrat one, so please specify.)

The specific topic I'm looking for is reaction to a Rudy Giuliani nomination, and whether you would go out and do the similar work for a ticket headed by Giuliani as you have done for Bush, etc., in the past. For the sake of this discussion, let's assume the Democratic nominee is either Hillary or Obama.

08/07 11:29 AMShare