Forbes Endorses Giuliani, Ties Up Fiscal Credentials
Magazine publisher Steve Forbes, a man who has never met a tax cut he didn’t like lent his support to Rudy Giuliani:
Forbes, chief executive of Forbes magazine who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination in 1996 and 2000, is considered a leader of the party’s pro-business and tax-cutting wings.
“He is the man who can lead America in a world that is uncertain, fight the forces of evil and at the same time increase economic opportunity here at home,” Forbes told a press conference.
Giuliani told Sean Hannity he’d seek capitalism, competition, and things like health savings accounts to get a solution to the nation’s health care problems. Such thinking along with Forbes’ endorsement should do well in tempting fiscal conservatives and libertarians to consider Giuliani as their candidate. (Imagine a Secretary of the Treasury Forbes. That would be a fiscal conservative’s wet dream.) It doesn’t help with getting social conservatives on board. Forbes, while in his 2000 Presidential run, was pro-life his position was more nuanced in 1996.
I’m not convinced Giuliani’s liberal social views will hurt him in 2008. If someone as pro-life as me won’t discount him he has a chance at winning the GOP nomination. Much of that chance depends on how well the war is going. Rudy fits the type of a war time President. In that role voters including pro-lifers will have to set issue priorities. Will they want a national leader willing to fight our enemies while maintaining the abortion status quo, or will they prefer a leader wanting to retreat from the fight while wanting more babies killed because of some unwritten constitutional right? Looking at it that way Giuliani doesn’t look too bad.
Forbes in the news allows me to make a superflurious mention of one of my favorite Saturday Night Live skits about the fictional Presidential candidate “Teve Torbes.”
“Rudy Hits A Homer”
