Giuliani courts donors here (Richmond, VA)

Richmond Times-Dispatch ^ | 2/17/07 | Tyler Whitley

[Corin Stormhands]

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, cast as a tough mayor of a tough town, brought a tough message to Richmond yesterday.

"The best way to protect yourself is to be on offense and not to be weak," Giuliani told reporters before a fundraiser for his Republican presidential campaign. "That isn't the way we defeated communism by being weak . . . "

[Corin Stormhands]

Rudy pingage.

The $2000 price tag was a bit out of my range. I got offered a "discounted" ticket, but it was still a bit steep.

[Spiff]

Rudy Giuliani Supports Partial Birth Abortion

[GEORGE] WILL: Is your support of partial birth abortion firm?
Mayor GIULIANI: All of my positions are firm. I have strong viewpoints. I express them. And I--I do not think that it makes sense to be changing your position....
ABC News February 6, 2000

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TUCHMAN: Giuliani was then asked whether he supports a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortions, something Bush strongly supports.
GIULIANI: No, I have not supported that, and I don't see my position on that changing.
- CNN December 2, 1999

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BLITZER: If you were in the Senate and [President Clinton] vetoed, once again, the [ban on the] so-called partial-birth abortion procedure, you would vote against sustaining that against the -- in favor of the veto in other words, you would support the president on that.
GIULIANI: Yes. I said then that I support him, so I have no reason to change my mind about it.
BLITZER: All right. So the bottom line is that on a lot of these very sensitive issues whether on guns, abortion, patients' bill of rights, taxes, you are more in line with the president and by association, with Mrs. Clinton, than you are against them.
- CNN February 6, 2000

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MR. RUSSERT: A banning of late-term abortions, so-called partial-birth abortions--you're against that?

MAYOR GIULIANI: I'm against it in New York, because in New York...

MR. RUSSERT: Well, if you were a senator, would you vote with the president or against the president? [Note: President Clinton was in office in 2000]

MAYOR GIULIANI: I would vote to preserve the option for women. I think that choice is a very difficult one. It's a very, very--it's one in which people of conscious have very, very different opinions. I think the better thing for America to do is to leave that choice to the woman, because it affects her probably more than anyone else....

MR. RUSSERT: So you won't change your view on late-term abortion in order to get the Conservative Party endorsement?

MAYOR GIULIANI: It isn't just that. We shouldn't limit this to one issue. I'm generally not going to change my views
- NBC Meet the Press, February 6, 2000

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***Note: the version of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban that Giuliani opposed in 2000, that he said he supported Bill Clinton in vetoing the Republican-controlled Congress's legislation, contained the exception for the life of the mother that Rudy is now trying to pretend is a prerequisite for his support of it.

[SeaBiscuit]

Rudy, We haven't defeated communism, it's alive and well and right here in the good ol USA.

[Corin Stormhands]

[johnny7]

“I've always relied on the kindness of strangers.”

[JCEccles]

Next breathless announcement from the Giuliani groupies:

Rudy Buys Dental Floss at a Durham Grocery--Cashier Says "He's impressive for a short bald guy. He makes me feel safe from terrorists"

[Condor51]

Giuliani told reporters ... "That isn't the way we defeated communism by being weak . . . "

That statement alone should disqualify this mope as POTUS material. He has zero vision beyond the five boroughs of NYC.

Here's a CLUE Rudy, Communism wasn't defeated. The USSR and Iron Curtain collapsed that's all. Communism is all around us ijit.

"Rudy, you're a Mutt."

"Go and get your Shine Box"

[Corin Stormhands]

With all due respect, I didn't post this for your benefit. Rudy is making news and I posted it for the benefit of those interested in news, not cheap shots.

Find a "true conservative candidate" that's actually making some headlines and we'll read about him.

Other than that, you're just whining.

[Corin Stormhands]

Here's a CLUE Rudy, Communism wasn't defeated.

And yet, I could find dozens, if not hundreds of articles on FR that specifically say "Ronald Reagan defeated Communism."

[SWAMPSNIPER]

"The best way to protect yourself is to be on offense and not to be weak,"

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Exactly, Rudy, but what did you have in mind when you started disarming decent NY citizens?

[texastoo]

Find a "true conservative candidate" that's actually making some headlines and we'll read about him.

Well, I did see the liberal Rudy on the Liberal Larry King show on the liberal CNN channel last week. I don't think they have had any conservative candidates on.

[Spiff]

With all due respect, I didn't post this for your benefit. Rudy is making news and I posted it for the benefit of those interested in news, not cheap shots.

There's lots of "news" about Hillary and Obama and I don't see you Rudybots posting that. No, instead you're cherrypicking positive news stories about liberal Giuliani in an obvious effort to openly campaign for him here on this conservative forum. JCEccles pointed that out in a humorous way. I mean, if Giuliani got a hang nail and it could be spun to make him look good and help his candidacy, you Rudybots would post it a number of times.

[SeaBiscuit]

Nailed it!

[SeaBiscuit]

I'd say he did have a good hand in defeating communism in the USSR. But we haven't defeated communism.

[Corin Stormhands]

I don't think they have had any conservative candidates on.

And that's Rudy's fault just how???

[Corin Stormhands]

Forgive me my lord, we bow to the eternal wisdom of Spammeister Spiff.

[hosepipe]

Is being the Mayor of Gomorrah(NYC) qualifications for being President?... Saving Gomorrah from bankruptcy is a questionable pursuit.. Making Gomorrah run more like Sodom(San Fransicko) and being proud of it takes ones breath away(it sucks)..

[texastoo]

Rudy makes liberal news. What is your problem?

By the way, did you know that Rudy was Mayor of New York City?

[Condor51]

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