Posted on 02/11/2007 11:23:05 PM PST by BunnySlippers
As Mayor Giuliani looks over the acres of gleaming tractors, mammoth cotton harvesters, and hightech cow milking equipment at a fair in California's vast agricultural heartland tomorrow morning, he will surely feel like he's a long way from Manhattan.
The prospect of a visit from the man billed as America's mayor already has local folks in California's central valley atwitter. "Honestly, this is probably the biggest name we've had," the chairman of the World Ag Expo in Tulare, Calif., Bruce Shannon, said yesterday.
Mr. Shannon allowed that Mr. Giuliani had "probably not run into a lot of combines and tractors" on the streets of Manhattan, but the organizer said the former New York mayor's reputation precedes him. "Rudy's very popular here," Mr. Shannon said.
In the coming year, these kinds of rural visits and forays to California's sprawling cities could become commonplace for Mr. Giuliani; the Golden State is poised to become a linchpin of his strategy for winning the Republican nomination for president.
One of the key factors pushing California to the fore of Mr. Giuliani's agenda is Governor Schwarzenegger's plan to move the state's presidential primaries up to February 5 from the current date in June.
"I think it will have a big impact," Mr. Giuliani said Saturday after addressing a state party convention in Sacramento. "You're going to have to spend a lot of time here. That's not so hard," he joked.
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If you want on or off the Rudy Ping List let me know.
sweep! :)
stick me on the list, uhhh... that's a vote FOR Rudy list right? :)
LOL ... you're on the list now.
Welcome! :)
ok, cool. :)
Clinton will be grabbing the guns first. ;)
Great news!
Great news!
I come from a family of avocado farmers farming in Ventura County since the mid-1800s. I'm from a huge family.
So I KNOW Rudy will get some of the rural vote. (much to your chagrin)
Just be careful in Tulare County and don't step in any Democratic Cow Pies.
"In a little-noted California poll last month, Mr. Giuliani held a sizable lead over the rest of the Republican field. The American Research Group survey found that Mr. Giuliani had the support of 33% of likely Republican primary voters; a former House speaker who is mulling a bid but not formally exploring one, Newt Gingrich, was at 19%; and Senator McCain of Arizona had 18% support. A former Massachusetts governor who is painting himself as the most viable true conservative in the race, Mitt Romney, had just 3% backing. Some 22% of the 600 Republicans and independents surveyed said they were undecided."
Looks like sensible Republicans in CA may give Rudy the nomination.
BTW,
Rudy is the speaker at the World Ag Conference in CA on Tuesday!
YEAH!!!
Wow, only one anti-Rudy post so far on this thread? The Rudy haters are slipping : )
In Tulare, Calif. We keep hearing from those here who speak for conservatism and who claim to know "the base," that Rudy will be rejected. I wonder when all this distain for Rudy will start showing up in real Republicans? So far, I haven't seen any.
I'm willing to bet, if elected President, Rudy will continue down the same road that all the Presidents have.
I love this word and you almost never see it in print. Would make a nice screen name even. :)
bttt
Now that you mention it. :)
"Wow, only one anti-Rudy post so far on this thread? The Rudy haters are slipping".
Who's that man in drag with Rudy?
They've GOT to be HIGH to get excited about seeing and meeting a liberal RINO from nyc!
Then again, many of them were stupid enough to vote for the RINO-nator.
I don't know about "disTain" (although dis RINO WILL be a stain on the Republican party), but we TRUE CONSERVATIVES DO show RINO-rudy disDain, because he is a nyc LIBERAL.
That explains allot.
rudy is a LIBERAL DEMONRAT in Republican clothing, and thus...
A traitor to his NAMED party.
Are you trying to persuade people to support YOUR candidate, or are you merely sowing little seeds of ill-will and division?
Let's support a TRUE CONSERVATIVE for Republican candidate for POTUS.
However, when Republicans are told in the context of the survey that Giuliani supports same-sex civil unions and holds a pro-choice position on abortion, the net effect on their expressed chances of backing him is negative. Knowing his social views, more than 4 in 10 Republicans indicate a reduced willingness to support Giuliani. Twenty-five percent say they would be less willing to vote for him, and 18% say they would rule out voting for him entirely.
That, and "reasonable"...
ONLY TWO words out of the liberal demonRAT playbook, and a favorite, I might add, of RINO-rudy's fellow gun-grabber, sarah brady.
Both of these scumbags LOVE ever-increasing, Draconian gun-control, that is, of course, "sensible and reasonable" (in THEIR minds at least).
Actually, I THOUGHT it might be sarah brady, since she and gun-grabbing liberal RINO rudy have so much in common.
All's fair in love, war, and politics, so we are doing whatever we can (including, but not limited to, biting wit and satire) to shutdown the left-wing media/liberal push-polling-pollster driven machine that's out there CONSTANTLY harping on getting either a demonRAT, OR a liberal RINO elected.
If you are gettting sucked into supporting a liberal RINO, you are either a demonRAT or liberal RINO yourself, or perhaps severely misguided, stupid, or ignorant.
It was Governor Ronald Reagan of California who signed the Mulford Act in 1967, "prohibiting the carrying of firearms on one's person or in a vehicle, in any public place or on any public street." The law was aimed at stopping the Black Panthers, but affected all gun owners.
Twenty-four years later, Reagan was still pushing gun control. "I support the Brady Bill," he said in a March 28, 1991 speech, "and I urge the Congress to enact it without further delay."
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=3605
All farmers, yes. Rural folks.
All people from California are terrible. All of us.
The difference between him and RINO-rudy, is that Reagan was conservative on MOST of the issues (RINO-rudy is the EXACT opposite, being LIBERAL on MOST of the issues), and Reagan was NOT a rabid, inner-city, northeastern-corridor serial GUN-GRABBER like RINO-rudy.
The WORST Republican is heads and shoulders above the BEST democrat, because democrat presidents are beholden to unions, leftist blogs, peaceniks, Hollywood, etc. and we would be in serious trouble with one at the helm.
The use of the term "true conservative" raises some red flags with me. I never hear it used by people I condider very conservative, such as DUncan Hunter or Jeff Sessions. The reason they don't use it, you see, is because it implies that "true conservatives" are the only ones who have the answers and everyone else is a poseur. It is an off-putting term wich most people recognize as a prelude to insulting people who don't agree with them.
Now, either you are a conservative who is misguided and thinks that your lame insults qualify as biting wit and satire (which, trust me, they do not) OR you are deliberately trying to cause problems amongst Republicans and conservatives. I don't know which it is, but I will tell you that if you continue to insult people simply because they support someone you do not, I will sadly conclude you are an imposter and disruptor.
I'm willing to bet, if elected President, Rudy will continue down the same road that all the DEMONRAT Presidents have."
Repub Presidents just slow down the decline of America. They don't stop it or reverse it.
They all follow the same agenda.They all push for the same goal.
During my first enlistment in the Marine Corps, I was on I&I duty with, what became a great friend and room-mate, a fellow Marine named Dennis Treiner.
He was a great Marine and guy, but he did something extremely stupid, and paid the ultimate price.
While kidding around (yes, he should have known better) he pointed what he "knew" was an unloaded 1911 .45 at his head and pulled the trigger (he was making fun of the Russian roulette scene in the movie "Deer Hunter"), instantly killing himself in front of me, another Marine, two female friends from his hometown, and his young fiance (this was in out out-in-town duplex).
Did I turn anti-gun, anti-2nd Amendment after this senseless death of a great friend? Of course not. I did not blame the inanimate object, but the stupidity of my friend. Just as I don't blame the firearms misused by a criminal or a crazed individual. That is misguided and flawed logic.
I don't give ANYONE a break on that type of "logic", even a great man like Ronald Reagan.
Please add me the Rudy Ping List.
Are you one of those CFR/Tri-lateral-commission conspiracy theorists?
Or - are you more like me and just pretty cynical about the fact that few Republicans truly know the Constitution?
You name is added.
Welcome! :)
I grew up in Tulare and went to many farm equipment shows...hope Rudy enjoys the small-town folk and the farmers. It will probably feel like he has gone to another planet or at least twenty years back in time.--for the good!
I have never been to Tulare. Is it pretty nice.
I have 99% farmers in my family. I love John Deere Green and Caterpillar Yellow ... and feed stores and the like.
I see several names have been added today! Wonderful.
The new Rep. Pete Session endorsement was great! He's got a 98% lifetime conservative rating. Of course, the ragers are saying he was paid off. LOL
It will be interesting to see just how many good conservatives they are willing to smear as all of this unfolds.
Yeah proclaim it from the rooftops Prime Minister Quisling! Great news! The Germans have landed in the fjords!
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