If It’s (Electoral) Curtains For Pro-Life, You Could Have Showed Me!

Are those bad Reds the color of “Abortion Rights”?
Guiliani is forging into new territory, and this is indeed momentous- are the editors at the Times making a sharp editorial statement by showing that Guiliani is out on his own and is already lost?
Or does support for women’s choice and women’s freedom cause blindness?

It speaks to the inevitable ostracism that befalls a pro-choice Republican.

Aside from the fact I can’t really tell what’s going on in the image, I love it. Is rudy on the phone? Did he take a call in the middle of his speech? Is he about to take off his glasses? Was there an aneurysm about to pop?
Seriously, what a great image. Here is rudy, trying to swim to the middle, all alone in a sea of angry red fundamentalists and authoritarians who will, no doubt, be even more red in the face tomorrow morning.
“This is not about Rudy, however, who this time last year, was still doing what every Republican sap was doing. It’s about the fact that the Christian right has officially lost its status as the American political system’s sacred cow.”
And rudy is still doing what every other republican sap is doing, whoring. This week he’s middle of the raod rudy. Next week what we he be? Like romney, rudy is whatever he needs to be win. rudy has no ideology to run from, or to for that matter.
Second, ah, I’m not so sure that the demise of the christian right is upon us. I would love if it were true that these zealots and hypocrites were marginalized in the poltical fringes they belong to, but I think it’s a bit early for that pronouncement.
Bill Moyers, on his most recent show, that perhaps the peak point for the religious right was September 12, 2001 when jerry falwell and pat robertson opined that America was only getting what it deserved for abandoning their version of yahweh. Perhaps Bill has a point but even then, one need not look very far or very hard to see an entire new generation of fundamentalists carefully placed and firmly ensconced througout our government.
Look at the US Attorney scandal. Look at the high percentage of regent university grads that now populate our regulatory agencies and law enforcement. This tidal infestation won’t be turned by someone as peripheral to most of the America as st. rudy intoning the phrase “abortion rights”.
And while I have no love for the NYT I’m not sure what this image has to do with “pussyfooting.” I have no doubt that the NYT would shrink from actually voicing the opinion of most people but again, what has that to do with this image? You’re not really putting forth that rudy is a populist, are you? rudy?
I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I do like this image. I like the idea that not only the photographer but the editor was willing place such a desolate, albeit richly appointed, context around rudy but that even in the image’s own minimalism, what it’s trying to communicate is a bit opaque. I think it’s an excellent image even

Jane,
If you were citing the head of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, or the chief Rabbi of someplace somewhere, that would be one thing, but you’re not actually suggesting that Charles Krauthammer, a conservative newspaper columnist, speaks for “the Jews,” are you?