Let me get this straight. If Giuliani were to right now do a one-eighty, start publicly lying about his core beliefs and urged more shoot’em-up-gun-deaths in the streets (with a preference towards abortion clinic doctors) and promised more gays strung to barbed wire, beaten and bloodied,… that more conservatives would get behind him, increasing his shot at becoming president in 2008?

Sounds par for the course. Is there any doubt that, if Cheney were to run for president, he’d sell his lesbian daughter down the river for a viable shot at the seat?

DeLay rails on Giuliani and McCain, says Clinton likely to become president

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told CNN Wednesday he does not support the front-runners in the race for the GOP presidential nomination and warned fellow Republicans that Sen. Hillary Clinton will likely be the next president if his party abandons its core beliefs.

Though DeLay called Rudy Giuliani an obvious “leader” who may be able to win over some social conservatives, the Texas Republican said he would not vote for the former New York City mayor, even if he were to win the GOP nomination.

“I can’t vote for somebody that’s for abortion,” DeLay told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on the Situation Room. “I never have, and I never will.”

DeLay also cited Giuliani’s support of gun control and gay rights as reasons social conservatives might turn away from the New York Republican.

DeLay had dire predictions to make about Sen. John McCain’s second bid for the White House as well, citing vigorous opposition to the Arizona Republican’s championing of campaign finance reform.

“I don’t think he’ll get very far because he is not — does not reflect the vast majority of the party,” DeLay said. “There’s a lot of conservatives that fault him for our situation right now because of McCain-Feingold…the lack of understanding about what the constitution guarantees and rights it guarantees.”
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“They need to go back and show their base that they haven’t lost their principle, they haven’t lost their way — that they will fight for what they believe in,” DeLay said.

Source: CNN.com