Posted on 04/25/2007 9:37:29 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
When I tell my liberal friends and associates that there are only a handful of Republicans that I would vote for before Hillary Clinton, the response is universally the same. I get a blank stare, followed by the question: "do you really think Rudy Giuliani can win the Republican nomination?"
If you've read about my infatuation with the Giuliani candidacy, you know my answer is YES. While Democrats like to fall in love with a candidate—Howard Dean or Senator Obama, for example—Republicans prefer picking winners.
With notable exceptions, like the 2002 California Gubernatorial race—Republicans recognize that they, like the Democrats, are a minority party. And yes, the Religious Right will vote for Rudy Giuliani just like they voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger in California in 2003 and again in 2006.
While most Republicans would rather support a candidate who opposed abortion rights and supported the Second Amendment, they also realize that, after seven years of George W. Bush's religious-right mobilization efforts, Americans would be hard pressed to elect such a person.
Republicans don't like being losers. Being losers is why people become Democrats.
Rudy Giuliani offers the best and most practical hope to fight off the evil empire of American politics—the Clinton Family—because he remains a national hero and is not tarnished by the Iraq war. What's more, Giuliani's "urban conservative" message of freedom for all evokes the origins of the Grand Old Party—while chipping away at the core voter base of the Democrats.
Giuliani's electability is what will get Religious voters to support him—and some will do so even enthusiastically.
If you don't believe me, then just follow the money. Campaign logic would say that Rudy Giuliani, the more moderate—dare I say liberal—Republican would be sweeping in campaign dollars from urban areas, where Republicans have more libertarian leanings. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney, the born-again religious conservative, should be raking in the dough from suburban, ex-urban and rural areas where like-minded folks call home.
Campaign logic, however, would be wrong.
Romney leads Republicans in fundraising nationwide—but also in Los Angeles and its most liberal zip-codes of Beverly Hills, Hollywood and the Westside. Giuliani, on the other hand, wins the fundraising battle in the neighborhoods West of the 405 of Brentwood and Pacific Palisades with a higher concentration of single-family homes.
This anomaly is more stark when you look at the numbers from across the State. Romney is raising more money in urban areas like Sacramento, San Diego and San Francisco. Giuliani is taking in the preponderance of dollars in faraway places like Yolo County, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Napa, Salinas, the Inland Empire and Fresno.
If you looked at a map of fundraising by County in California, Giuliani would win the Red Counties and Romney would take the Blue. It is as if Mitt Romney were the GOP's Phil Angelides.
Look no further than the case of Real Estate Developer/Hotelier C. Frederick Wehba if you need more convincing. The passionately evangelical Christian—who started his own church in Beverly Hills and is a major contributor to George Bush and the RNC. C. Frederick is backing Rudolph Giuliani in 2008, as are Bill Simon and many others in the Christian Community.
Without Ted Haggard to tell them how to vote, Republicans of all stripes seem to be coming to the same conclusion—that the perfect should not be the enemy of the good, especially when the cost of failure is a sequel to President Clinton.
LOL.
You pull the same thing. When you criticize a point about a candiate then it’s fair to ask but you protest: “It’s not about me!”
What?! You’re too good to tell us your candidate or is it possible you’re candidate has some flaws?
Well since he has never been president it does stand to reason that he has no foreign policy experience. That's sort of obvious.
Why do I think he'll be good? He hasn't wavered on his stance to go on the offensive and stay on the offensive against radical islam.
Hillary as Commander in Chief teaches no one a "lesson!" It's a complete disservice to this great nation if that happens.
I do not see any real difference between the two. Period.
Liar. I do nothing of the sort. I don't deflect from a question by saying "who's your candidate" like you did.
What?! You’re too good to tell us your candidate or is it possible you’re candidate has some flaws?
Do you REALLY want to be asking this, considering the guy you support is Giuliani?
That's unfortunate... for the Armed Forces.
Shutup Asshole!
cicero’s_son
The first ban of the thread.
and I think those numbers will continue up as voters find out how he really stands.
I thikn he is too unstable.
Does your candidate?
Rudy has international stature as a law and order guy.
Rudy can deny ferrets to al Qaeda.
28 years on the Armed services committee.
A blog, written by a liberal from West Hollywood, announcing another stellar endorsement for Rudy!
Investor tied to failed thrift admits he hid asset
Bill Lodge. Dallas Morning News. Dallas, Tex.: May 16, 1995. pg. 23.ALos Angeles real estate investor Carl Frederick Wehba pleaded guilty Monday in Dallas to a charge that he concealed a Beverly Hills mansion from the receiver of the failed Vernon Savings and Loan Association of Addison.
Mr. Wehba, 49, omitted the mansion from his list of assets during negotiations with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Those negotiations occurred after the FDIC obtained a $2.5 million judgment against Mr. Wehba for loans that were not repaid before Vernon's collapse.
But you won’t name your candidate.
No, you Rudy Rooters are simply uncomfortable dealing with a heavily publicized event.
Rudy was asked to stay because New Yorkers said they wanted him too.
Totally untrue.
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