Posted on 05/10/2019 9:37:36 PM PDT by conservative98
Rudy just trolled the crap out of the stooge media. The media and democrats were working overtime to bury the Clinton/Biden Ukrainian corruption. Rudy floats his trip and the stooges fall over themselves putting the Ukrainian corruption story on page one. Rudy learned from the master, job well done.
From Wiki:
Despite his strategy, Giuliani competed to a substantial extent[186] in the January 8, 2008 New Hampshire primary but finished a distant fourth with 9 percent of the vote.[187] Similar poor results continued in other early contests, when Giuliani’s staff went without pay in order to focus all efforts on the crucial late January Florida Republican primary.[188] The shift of the electorate’s focus from national security to the state of the economy also hurt Giuliani,[185] as did the resurgence of McCain’s similarly themed campaign. On January 29, 2008, Giuliani finished a distant third in the Florida result with 15 percent of the vote, trailing McCain and Romney.[189] Facing declining polls and lost leads in the upcoming large Super Tuesday states,[190][191] including that of his home New York,[192] Giuliani withdrew from the race on January 30, endorsing McCain.[193]
Giuliani’s campaign ended up $3.6 million in arrears,[194] and in June 2008 Giuliani sought to retire the debt by proposing to appear at Republican fundraisers during the 2008 general election, and have part of the proceeds go towards his campaign.[194] During the 2008 Republican National Convention, Giuliani gave a prime-time speech that praised McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, while criticizing Democratic nominee Barack Obama. He cited Palin’s executive experience as a mayor and governor and belittled Obama’s lack of same, and his remarks were met with wild applause from the delegates.
I think he announced it just to get the story in the public eye.
I think he is making things up on the fly and needs to follow direction from somebody else. His days as a TV savvy advocate are clearly over.
No Ukraine investigation is going to affect the dem primaries. Biden is not much of a problem anyway.
No - Guiliani is cancelling the trip because of the flack he was getting in the press about it so he bailed out. Guiliani needs to be muzzled.
I second that emotion. He’s not exactly helping Trump.
Absolutely
A Trumpian move
You just know Trump sits back and grins ear to ear watching the media freak out
Dear dummies in the thread-
He was trolling.
The only reason the msm mentioned that story was to complain about Rudy going to Ukraine. They were studiously ignoring it until this. You can think what you like but I suspect Rudy is very TV savvy.
Yep, great post.
For reason I have a sudden urge to go bream fishing....
Ah yes, The Rooty Rooters. I remember it well.
You were once a Rudy fan who opposed folks you guys called SoCons and Paleos
We just went over this on the Howlin has passed away thread yesterday
Folks like me and those I pinged
No worries I was banned when Mad Ivan and the exodus happened over Rudy which ending up as a cannibalized effort by the very same folks who caused so much derision here Howlin among them
Howlin and Sinkspur and Dane were instrumental in seeing a number of us were given the boot in 2005
We came back in 2007 after the Rudy thingie
Rudy would have made a poor President from a conservative perspective
Jim Robinson was right about Rudy Andy it cost him a lot of members,
We won EEE albeit with the unlikeliest of candidates I admit
I think most of us simply knew early on Trump would fight back and had common sense
My side here...no question about it.
But I fear we lost the war for America’s future
It’s heartrending to realize this forum was on the wrong side of immigration when it counted
I’m not picking on you but I want to ask what did you learn from all this?
My positions are virtually the same since 2002 and 95% since 1980
jospehm20: I think he announced it just to get the story in the public eye.
I think the idea of Trump’s personal lawyer going to the Ukraine to inject himself into a foreign investigation was absolutely stupid. Should only be pursued with Ukraine by US AG Barr and/or US State Dept.
You are still here and for good reason...not that it matters what I think
Many of the Rudy folks are gone
Did they become Hillary supporters or anti Trumpers
Who knows
Quite a few were not in my view conservatives but rather agent provocateurs here declaring folks who opposed amnesty as racist and so forth
Sinkspur for example who I always suspected is now a full blown democrat on Twitter
A good works catholic in love with Pope Francis
Like we couldn’t tell when he was here
Hattip pelham
Hchutch...a nevertrumper
If we took the time to run them down that’s likely the result
But you’re not any of that
And I don’t want to give that impression
Nor is Abby or another lady I’m fond of here ...Miss resident
...in case they see my bloviating
Hell I like Rudy as a prosecutor and mayor
I was in Manhattan rigjt before his tenure ....he did make a difference
Pres. DJT needs his own non public persona version of the
“new deep state” for this job. Not RJ
No, that made no sense.
It does sort of make sense to announce the trip, and see who starts squealing the loudest, publicly and ... privately.
His shooting off at the mouth sometimes seems a sign of something quite wrong.
####Now this looks like another goofball move by Rudy. His time has passed, time for him to spend more time with his family.####
He probably knows more than you are. The Nazis might easily set a car bomb on him and then blame the Russians there.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.