Weld rights his position in race for (NY) gov

[brooklynite]

NANUET - William Weld, the former Massachusetts governor now seeking the Republican nomination for governor of New York, is steering his campaign to the right as he tries to go the distance against Democrat Eliot Spitzer.

Though Weld has expressed liberal positions on social issues in the past, he sounded very much like an archconservative when he emerged from a private sitdown with GOP leaders in Rockland County the other night.

On the hot-button topic of partial birth abortion, he said he favors a ban on the rarely used procedure. By contrast, he had favored allowing such abortions when he was Massachusetts governor.

Weld, who was born and raised in New York and returned in 2000, also said that while he is an advocate of "full equality of rights" for homosexuals, he'd draw the line at allowing same-sex wedding vows.

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Weld raised the eyebrows of Massachusetts liberals more than a decade ago by saying he opposed a ban on assault weapons because hunters in New York's Adirondacks sometimes used AK-47s. After meeting with GOP leaders in New York, he said he still holds that view.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/345193p-294725c.html
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Gee, who would have guessed this would happen?

[Gloria]

1. FLIP FLOP, Mr. Spitzer, go for the jugular.....

another Republican phony

[applegrove]

2. Repukes and their "Wall of Lies". What a hypocrite!

[HockeyMom]

3. Running as an "arch conservative" in New York?

ROFL That ought to win him a lot of votes. Looks like it will be Pirro versus Hillary then.

[sabbat hunter]

4. marriage vs civil unions

personally i believe everyone who wants to be officially joined under the law should get a civil union. if they want a religious marriage/wedding on top of that, that would be up to the couple and the church/temple/mosque/etc.

obviously the gov't cant force religions to recognize same sex unions.

weld is an enigma to be sure. fairly liberal historically and was fairly popular in democratic stronghold of massachutes. but after losing the senate race to kerry, he seemed to grow bored and resigned as govenor.

personally i would like to see Tom Suozzi, nassau county executive run for govenor. he has proven he can win in republican territory without giving up on democratic party values.

suozzi did what few thought a democratic candidate could do, win in heavily republican nassau county, straighten out the fiscal mess that predecessor gullota left him, and helped other democrats win county wide races.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Republican integrity

I can remember when that was not an oxymoron.

Well, not entirely, anyway.

[whalerider55]

6. as a survivor of...

lazy Billy and the shallow end of the gene pool republican gubernatorial legacy he has left here in Massachusettts, a few words to my wise friends in New York, also my place of birth...

Weld is not a liberal.
Weld is not a conservative.
Weld is not even really a republican.
Weld is a libertarian.
Weld is easily bored.
Weld is no family values repug, nope. he is divorced from his wife,who was a roosevelt, as i recall.
Weld likes the grateful dead, proof that no man is all bad.
But he is a libertarian, and when the smoke clears, that will be the aroma you smell.

New York, having been governed by a thieving moron created in the mold of Alphonse D'Amato, deserves better.

Just my two cents.
Now if we could just get the MA dems to think outside the box (Robert Reich, Deval Patrick) intead of tossing a hack up every four years (Shannon O'Brien, probably Tom Reilly this year) we could really get something going.

whalerider

[AX10]

7. D'Amato and the rest of La Cosa Nostra...

needs to go to jail.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. Sounds like a carpetbagger.