[mylife]

The Heck with Rudy as POTUS
Let him run for Hillarys seat

[Carry_Okie]

The book on Rudy Giuliani is that he is too liberal on social issues to win the Republican presidential nomination.

As if liberal social policy doesn't come at a fiscal cost. As just one example: Single parentage resulting from the sexual revolution cost us a bundle in AFDC claims.

When the facts come out, Republicans will realize that Rudy's too liberal on fiscal policy to win it either.

[inkling]

My dream ticket right now is Giuliani/Kyl.

[Antoninus]

Sorry. Rudy sucks. Next candidate, please.

[JCEccles]

The latest poll suggests that Rudy can't even carry his home state.

[Tim Long]

However well he'll do, he won't get my vote.

[familyop]

We're writing "off Giuliani's appeal to social conservatives." And he's not "charming crowds of conservatives" despite the bandwagon propaganda approach being used by Democrats in our discussions and the media. For those of you unfamiliar with that propaganda method, try the following keywords in your search.

propaganda bandwagon

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The fact that Rudy drove the porn merchants out of Times Square, spoke out against fatherless children and out-of-wedlock births, and spoke out against taxpayer funded "art" that mocked Christianity is lost on the rabid social-issue conservatives.

Their candidates didn't do zilch to advance social conservatism while keeping a chair warm in Congress for years, even decades, so they have to trash the front-runner, the guy with the solid record, in out-and-out naked desperation.

[familyop]

"We're writing "off Giuliani's appeal to social conservatives." And he's not "charming crowds of conservatives" despite the bandwagon propaganda approach being used by Democrats in our discussions and the media. For those of you unfamiliar with that propaganda method, try the following keywords in your search.

propaganda bandwagon

And BTW, some Giuliani fans were recently joking and gloating about using exactly that approach in a recent FR thread. Other commenters were unaware of what they were referring to while patting each other on their backs for using that word ("bandwagon").

[My2Cents]

Giuliani made a trip to the state and struck a chord by speaking to a burning issue in South Carolina--a fight over school choice. This probably won't make the national evening news, but today some 5,000 people--many of whom are black and live in poorly performing rural school districts--are expected to descend on the state capitol in Columbia to rally for school choice....One woman who attended told me she wonders whether electing a president who successfully took on the mob in New York is what it will take to finally break through the entrenched education political culture. Christian conservatives make up the core of the school-choice movement in the state. If they come to the conclusion that Mr. Giuliani is on their side and has the leadership qualities to achieve lasting and meaningful change, he may prove a surprisingly strong contender.

There's something larger going on in this election that the traditional political labels and conventional thinking can discern and describe. Giuliani's candidacy has the promise to change...maybe even radically...the dynamics of American politics, for the better, for all of us.

[SoCalPol]

RG running strong in Iowa.
Since they have a democrat senator, democrat gov. and mod repo sen. not exactly a bastion of Republicanism

[My2Cents]

***Ping***

[nopardons]

Latest Rudy news.

[Old_Mil]

Wishful thinking by a paper that should know better...

[Junior_G]

I think this article is on to something. You can't just judge a candidate based on the balance of their stated positions on various issues. After eight years of George Bush, many Americans will be eager to have a president that doesn't make us all cringe when he speaks publicly. Giuliani would clearly be a very strong leader, and that should not be underestimated.

[tkathy]

Rudy is a can do doer, what a real republican is. (RR)

[hosepipe]

Giuliani is Hillarys dream opponent..
If the pubbies run him Hillary's got a lock..
Which be called a mandate..

[philetus]

"I don't see anyone getting the Republican nomination who is not pro-life and a staunch defender of traditional marriage."

Let's say someone who is pro-life and a staunch defender of traditional marriage gets elected.
What, exactly, do you think he's going to do?

My guess is, not much.
He'll make a lot of noise, throw the People a couple bones, and things will continue down the slope,but that's just me.
I don't believe a honest, caring,ethical politician ever makes it past the school board.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Some social conservatives might vote for Giuliani on account of his strong stance on the conflict in Iraq and against islamofascism in general. Personally, vote for a pro-lifer Christian (all Christians should be pro-life, not all pro-lifers are Christian) foremost. If Giuliani is not pro-life, then he doesn't get the vote--plain and simple. In California, so the 54 or so state votes are probably going to the Democrats anyway.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

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