[Brilliant]

The GOP needs Florida, and it's not going to be easy to get without a Bush on the ticket.

[mysterio]

Rudy's wrong on the issues.

[Vaquero]

…most of Clintons Policies are very similar to most of mine... Rudy Giuliani 1996

On Abortion I’ve said that I’ll uphold a woman’s right to choice, that I will fund abortions so that a poor woman is not deprived of a right others can exercise… Rudy Giuliani 1989.

On Gun Control This is an industry that is profiting from the suffering of innocent people. What’s worse, its profits rest on a number of illegal and immoral practices. This lawsuit is meant to end the free pass that the gun industry has so long enjoyed... Rudy Giuliani 2000 after filing suit against gun makers and distributors.

On Gun Control We need a federal law that bans all assault weapons, and if in fact you do need a handgun you should be subjected to at least the same restrictions-and really stronger ones-that exist for driving an automobile... Rudy Giuliani 1997

[TitansAFC]

This is going to be a Hillary blowout when Rudy's numbers go down and hers get a slight bumb - the natural result of a long R vs. D campaign. They there's the Third Party candidate.

I'm beginning to believe Rudy Giuliani would lose in a landslide.

[CrawDaddyCA]

Gilliani is Best GOP Hope in Florida

Wow, two years before the election, and RINO Gilliani is our 'best hope'.

If he's our 'best hope', we're totally screwed!

[Right_in_Virginia]

I just don't understand this apparent love fest over Rudy Guliani.

[Candor7]

Rudy is a Sump pump. He wants to be Mayor of the United States.

[Constitution Day]

Who is "Gilliani"?

[Beagle8U]

Grabbing guns will be a big hit in Fla. They don't like guns there. OPPS, I was thinking of Rat big liberal cities in the NE, they hate gun-grabbers in Fla.

[EnquiringMind]

That is true, but many FReepers would prefer Hillary to Rudy, so it seems.

[Xenalyte]

Gilliani . . . nice twist.

I usually see Guiliani.

Both of which make me think he'll never get elected, since people can't spell his name even when it's staring them in the face from the article.

[SmoothTalker]

Rudi is a great candidate if your goal is to elect anybody with an "R" next to his name. He is a horrible candidate if you want to elect a Conservative.

[beltfed308]

Rudy Giuliani (R) 47% - 44% Hillary Rodham Clinton (R) John McCain (R) 43% - 47%

Looks like hillary is a conservative republican now too.

[George W. Bush]

Another day, another meaningless name recognition poll.

The silly season started at least six months early this cycle in both parties. People are going to get very tired of it. I know I already am.

[ConservativeStatement]

By HRC, do you mean Her Royal Crudeness?

[william clark]

And if, as I suspect, Richardson eventually emerges as the Dem nominee, Rudy will be buried by the Hispanic turnout.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Rudy's running as a JFK-era liberal Democrat - about where GWB and the majority of Americans are politically.

Hillary is running as a Scandinavian Social Democrat - where the MSM and the coastal urban elites want to go.

Free Republic-approved candidates aren't running on platforms where any significant percentage of the population wants to go.

[WalterSkinner]

..it will be very interesting to see how he deals with the 2nd Amendment issue in places like Duval County and in the Panhandle...

[Taichi]

after reading all the posts I realized that no one is truly happy with any of our choices.

Rudy has a surface appeal coming across as tough and decisive but his gun control, abortion positions make him hard for conservatives to live with.
McCain is just a spinning top, you never know from one day to the next where he's going to be.

We want someone to beat Hillary and prove the Dem's wrong. Ultimately we all want a Reagan, someone who is telling us what we want to hear and making us feel good about it.

I think that's where Obama's appeal comes from, or did, the bloom is fading fast on that rose now. But for a little while he was as Biden said, "clean."
I think that's what we conservatives are looking for and there ain't one out there. At least not yet.

[longtermmemmory]

It seems the NY dominated MSM types want a NY connection to the next president. It will be NY senator vs Former NY mayor. (remember all AP is routed through the NY offices these days)

All this pro-Guiliani, pro-Hilary stories is to drive money to the 1st tier candidates and force the less known candidates to burn money.

Guiliani is too pro-homosexual marriage for a FL primary. Guiliani is too pro-gun control for a FL primary.

[gakrak]

Yet another BS poll. They are totally useless. Amen.

[Afronaut]

This information commands a headline that Rudy is our best bet? This far out? This is a Story??

Margin of error is 3.1%

Rudy Giuliani (R) 47% - 44% Hillary Rodham Clinton (R)
John McCain (R) 43% - 47% Hillary Rodham Clinton (R)
Mitt Romney (R) 34% - 52% Hillary Rodham Clinton (R)
John McCain (R) 43% - 42% John Edwards (R)
John McCain (R) 42% - 40% Barack Obama (R)

[Plutarch]

These Angus-Reid summaries are hardly news, the poll was released a week ago. Quinnipiac University poll, February 7

Hmmmm...the ladies don't like McCain, and do like Rudy.

[Plateau]

This is a response to a blog about Fred Thompson as a 2008 presidential candidate.

"I'm a lifelong liberal democrat and I would heartily vote for Fred Thompson. He has the intelligence, the wit, the presence, the knowledge and the background to be President and he doesn't seem to have any of the negatives of either Guilliani (who I adore) or McCain. The GOP should draft him anyway they can."

I did not change anything from this little tidbit. Notice that they are a lifelong liberal Democrat and ADORE Guilliani. I wonder why?

P.S. Fred Thompson could save the GOP in 2008! I think everybody should pray that Fred Thompson becomes a Republican Candidate for the POTUS in 2008!

[from occupied ga]

Gilliani is Best GOP Hope in Florida

If this is the GOP's best hope I think we'd better get used to president Hillary (and frankly I don't think she'd be much worse)

[La Enchiladita]

Who is Gilliani?

P.S.... How hard is it to check the spelling on a headline before you post?