Lightning KOs TV = sound in N.H. just as Rudy asked about pro-choice view

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Lightning strikes and silences Rudy

Lightning KOs TV sound in N.H. just as Rudy asked about pro-choice = view

BY CELESTE KATZ and DAVID SALTONSTALL
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Wednesday, June 6th 2007, 4:00 AM

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Sparks fly: Rudy Giuliani and John McCain at the Republican = presidantial=20 debate in Manchester, N.H.

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MANCHESTER, N.H. - Perhaps it was the wrath of God, or just a stray = lightning=20 bolt.

Whatever it was, it momentarily cut the sound at last night's = Republican=20 presidential debate just as Rudy Giuliani was asked about a Catholic = bishop who=20 compared him to Pontius Pilate - Christ's crucifier in the Bible - for = his views=20 on abortion.
"Look, for someone who went to parochial schools all his life, this = is a very=20 frightening thing," joked Giuliani as the sound came back on.
As the candidates all laughed - and stepped away from Giuliani in = mock horror=20 - the former mayor proceeded to outline his pro-choice views and the = debate went=20 on.
It provided one of many sparks in the third Republican presidential = debate, a=20 forum that underlined the differences between the 10 GOP candidates, = their deep=20 chasm with the Democrats, and their growing distance from President = Bush.
While the Democratic hopefuls spent their debate Sunday mostly = talking about=20 how they would withdraw from Iraq, virtually all the Republicans spoke = of the=20 need to stay the course in Iraq, and many refused even to rule out a = nuclear=20 strike against Iran to keep that country from developing nuclear = weapons.
Asked for a show of hands, every Republican on the stage indicated = they=20 thought English should be named the official language of the U.S., an = idea=20 dismissed by virtually all Democrats on Sunday. And the Republicans all=20 similarly rejected a suggestion that gays be allowed to serve openly in = the=20 military.
But the Republicans were also surprisingly unified in aiming = criticism - or=20 at least not defending - Bush, exposing what has become a stark tension = within=20 the GOP.
"This war was very badly mismanaged for a long time and Americans = have made=20 great sacrifices, some of which were unnecessary," Sen. John McCain = poignantly=20 told a woman whose brother was killed in Iraq, adding that he hoped the = current=20 course in Iraq would make it so "the sacrifice of your brother would not = be in=20 vain."
Rep. Duncan Hunter of California said the White House "has the slows" = when it=20 comes to building a security fence along the Mexican border, while = former=20 Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson took a crack at Bush's diplomatic skills = by=20 saying, "I would certainly not send him to the United Nations" when = asked about=20 Bush's post-presidency.
Immigration was a hot topic, but the expected showdown between McCain = and=20 former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney - who have been sparring for days = over the=20 topic - failed to materialize. "I am not going to make this a matter of = personal=20 politics," Romney said.
McCain later gave an impassioned defense of a bipartisan bill he has = helped=20 to author that would give the nation's 12 million illegal immigrants a = pathway=20 to citizenship, and he ended by defending the patriotism of many of the = nation's=20 immigrants.
"Next time you're down in Washington, D.C., go to the Vietnam War = memorial=20 and look at the names engraved in black granite. You'll find a whole lot = of=20 Hispanic names," said McCain.
Giuliani also weighed in on the immigration bill, which he called = flawed and=20 "a typical Washington mess." But mostly the former mayor - who is = running well=20 ahead of his rivals, a new USA Today Poll showed yesterday - tried to = look past=20 the primary and aim his barbs at Democrats.=20
"They don't seem to have gotten beyond the Cold War," said Giuliani, = adding=20 of the recently uncovered plot to blow up Kennedy Airport, "These are = real=20 problems. This war is not a bumper sticker."
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