Posted on 02/16/2007 4:34:15 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Will their campaign slogan be Rudy, Newt, Newt?
I'm not impressed.
Check this out.
Oh man, now Newt is going to hear it from the anti-Rudy crowd. Stay low and keep your pack dry, Newt.
Could it be that Rudy is just a pretty darn likable candidate?
You wouldn't be impressed if Reagan himself endorsed Giuliani.
No worries. Romney takes the nomination going away.
Newt likes your candidate! Stopped short of endorsing him.
And that is exactly correct.
Most politicians talk.
Rudy said what he would do (the impossible), and then he did it.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg got 96 senate vote. 96. on that basis, we'd have to disqualify almost the entire sitting republican senate. here is the roll call on the vote:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/law/nominations/ginsburg/vote.pdf
there are legitimate issues to go after Rudy on. He should certainly be asked how he squares his support for Roe, with his assertion that he would appoint constitutionalist judges. What would he think if one of his SCOTUS picks became the 5th vote to return abortion to the States? this is what the primaries are for.
Newt running to be Rudy's VP? Hmmmm....
Well, his likability is the huge worrry, doncha know?
I'm not much of a fan of Rudy for Pres.
He did great things for NYC and was a decisive leader on 9-11.
But, he is no conservative. (no matter how much some would wish it so)
It wouldn't surprise me if this is Newt's strategy. Use a populist liberal to knock out all of the other contenders and then Newt can jump in and destroy Rudy in the primaries.
That's a real possibility.
Newt may be playing a little game here. He may want to see Rudy peak early, get the conservatives and evangelicals so riled up, that they mobilize to take him down.
remember what Newt's plan is - he wants the "base" to take down the 3 republican front runners - and if he sees that part of the party demolish them, he'll step in and say "hey, there is nobody left, if you are going to go with a no name, maybe you'd consider me instead".
Newt didn't endorse Rudy. But Ronald Reagan is dead. And I'm not about to roll over and support a liberal to be the party standard bearer. I think all this talk about Rudy being the savior of the GOP is pathetic nonsense.
I like Romney/Newt better. But will support Rudy/Newt too. Or Rudy/Romney or Romney/Rudy or..... LOL
Ready to throw Newt under the bus too?
"He is much stronger than anyone could have predicted six months ago," said former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich from Georgia. "New York is four times safer than it used to be. It's one of the greatest achievements of government capability in the 20th century. And Rudy just has to go out and say, 'This is who I am. If you think the world's dangerous, and you need a tough guy
that's me.' "
In assessing Giuliani's potential appeal to conservatives, Gingrich pointed to Giuliani saying in recent interviews that he would appoint "strict constructionist" judges.
Gingrich predicted that one of Giuliani's GOP rivals would air television ads attacking him for having made positive statements in the past about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice appointed by former President Clinton, who has upheld abortion rights.
Gingrich, however, seemed unconvinced that the line of attack would work
"And as he said the other day," said Gingrich, "he would have appointed the same two Supreme Court justices as Bush did. So conservatives have got to decide, you know, is that acceptable or not acceptable?"
Reagan appointed two pro-Roe SCOTUS members.
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