Saturday, Rudy Giuliani addresses the Values Voter Summit, probably his most important speech, and most potentially hostile crowd, since his address to the NRA members.

A source close to Giuliani says he isn’t certain what will be in his address, but contends that the former New York City mayor has more socially conservative reforms to tout than some may think: “Getting rid of porn shops in Times Square – I think people may have forgotten what Times Square in 1992 was like” – his efforts against the dung-painting of Mary at the Brooklyn Art Museum exhibit, his creation of the Administration for Children’s Services and the drop in the abortion rate. “He can say, ‘here are some tangible things I can point to. Now ask the others, ‘what are the things you can point to?’’”

Yesterday, Rudy was asked what he was going to say at the Values Voters Summit on Saturday:#more#

MAYOR GIULIANI: What am I going to say to the Value Voters on Saturday? I don’t have my speech ready. I’m going to say good morning, it’s nice to be here. Let me explain to you that we’re in this together and that we look at the world in a much more similar way than I think people think. That we shouldn’t be all that surprised that there are some differences. There are always some differences. But that I ask you to look at the whole candidate and the whole picture of what we face in 2008 and going forward. And then make the choice on who the best candidate is.
I never ask anyone to, you know, give up their principles. I ask people to say to themselves is there enough we agree about with this candidate, and in my case, if there is enough, maybe I’m the one that you want to support right now. I very much come from the 80/20 school. You know, my 80% friend is not my 20% enemy and the fact that we have to have as broad a candidacy as possible. But then if somebody is very, very—if somebody disagrees with me very strongly on a matter of principle and they believe it should be a single issue situation, I respect that, you know. I’m not going to get every vote.
The idea is going to be that there’s enough for us to agree about and enough that we’re facing in terms of the outside world, meaning foreign threats and domestic problems in terms of spending and everything else, that may just be [when] they think about it that I’m the best candidate and we’re certainly not at odds. I think we have exactly the same goals. We have some disagreements on how to get there. That is true of every group of voters and ultimately if you agree on major goals it brings you together.

We’ll see how it goes on Saturday. I can’t help but suspect the response will be something like, “all of that is nice, but I still can’t vote for a pro-choice presidential candidate.”