Giuliani tops in early GOP polls -- Why?

If the polls are to be believed, Republicans want to nominate an pro-choice, anti-gun, thrice-married, New York City champion of gays and illegal aliens for president in 2008. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani — at least on paper — is precisely the sort of candidate that most conservatives would vote against in a GOP presidential primary.

His first marriage, to a second cousin, was annulled after being married for 14 years. During his second marriage, he began dating a third woman and moved in with a gay couple. In order to clear the way for his third marriage, Giuliani called a news conference to announce plans for a divorce from his surprised second wife, who accused him of “open and notorious adultery” with a fourth woman.

“I’ve said that I’ll uphold a woman’s right of choice, that I will fund abortion so that a poor woman is not deprived of a right that others can exercise, and that I would oppose going back to a day in which abortions were illegal,” Giuliani told talk show host Phil Donahue during his first run for mayor in 1989. “If the ultimate choice of the woman — my daughter or any other woman — would be that in this particular circumstance to have an abortion, I’d support that. I’d give my daughter the money for it,” he added.

Although Giuliani, a former prosecutor, has called for tougher security along the U.S.-Mexico border, he has also bragged of providing city services to the multitudes of illegal immigrants flooding New York City. Perhaps the only thing that could make conservatives hold their noses and vote for Giuliani is the fear that Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York would otherwise win the White House.

Giuliani’s positions on the issues
Abortion: Opposes ban on partial-birth abortion.
Gay marriage: Opposes constitutional ban. “I’m pro-gay rights.”
Gun control: Supports ban on assault weapons. As mayor, he called on New Yorkers “to re-energize the fight for gun control.”
Immigration: “We got to stop illegals from coming in,” he recently told Fox News. “And a tremendous amount of money should be put into the physical security that’s needed to do that.”
Iraq: Strongly supports President Bush’s policy.
Taxes: As mayor, reduced taxes in New York by several billion dollars.
Family: Has had three wives, Divorced twice, lived with one woman without being married.
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