An anti Rudy third party?

NY Times:

Alarmed at the possibility that the Republican Party might pick Rudolph W. Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives is threatening to back a third-party candidate.

The threat emerged from a group that broke away for separate discussions at a meeting Saturday in Salt Lake City of the Council for National Policy, a secretive conservative networking group. Participants said the smaller group included James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family, who is perhaps its most influential member; Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council; Richard A. Viguerie, the direct-mail pioneer; and dozens of other politically oriented conservative Christians.

Almost everyone present at the smaller group’s meeting expressed support for a written resolution stating that “if the Republican Party nominates a pro-abortion candidate we will consider running a third-party candidate,” participants said.

The participants said that the group chose the qualified term “consider” because it had not yet identified an alternative candidate, but that it was largely united in its plans to bolt the party if Mr. Giuliani, the former New York mayor, became the nominee. The participants spoke on condition of anonymity because the Council for National Policy meeting and the smaller meeting were secret, but they said members of the smaller group intended to publicize the resolution.

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I am skeptical because I don't think these guys are that ignorant. While the NY Times would love for it to be true because they dislike Rudy as too conservative and they would find it rich that some conservatives insured the defeat of conservatism because they did not think Rudy was conservative enough. They know that a third party candidate has no chance but it would insure a Democrat gets elected to appoint Supreme Court Justices who will work against their agenda while Rudy has agreed to nominate justices like Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito. Do these conservatives really want more liberals on the court?

Jim Gerahty notes that some religious conservatives do see Hillary Clinton as a much bigger disaster.

Here is some information on Rudy's conservative credentials from his campaign.