Posted on 02/01/2007 5:41:39 AM PST by areafiftyone
GIULIANI: That is not the critical factor. And what's important to me is to have a very intelligent, very honest, very good lawyer on the court. And he fits that category, in the same way Justice Ginsburg fit that category.
In this answer, Rudy offers his criteria for a good SCOTUS justice. 1. "very intelligent" 2."very honest" 3. "very good lawyer". It's Rudy`s opinion that both CJ Roberts and J Ginsburg fit into that category. Frankly, I'm convinced that Rudy would be more satisfied with a Lawrence Tribe, a George Mitchell or even an Alan Dershowitz on the SC, then a Constitutional conservative like Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas or William Rehnquist.
For sure.
Jimmy Carter wasn't running in 1984. Mondale ran, and he was beaten by a much larger margin than Mr. Peanut. And Mondale was and is FAR more liberal than Carter, so the 'rat base should have been motivated to vote for him. Unfortunately for Fritz, as a candidate he was awful and he was up against King Kong.
Ivan
I never said that Giuliani endorsed Ginsburg's appointment. Please stop saying that I did.
Thank you. I'll take a look.
People who are: jumping to conclusions, ducking questions, falsely accusing people of not answering imaginary questions, accusing others of using multiple screen names, do not belong in this forum, right Mr. Conservative?
Tell me, when you squealed to the powers that be, what was their answer? oooops, that's another question that won't be answered!
You are the one employing stall and diversionary tacts.
You have no tact, you stalled and crashed!
LOL! You are priceless!
Well, like I said, I've got TONS of "honks" on the threads and in Freepmail!
LOL..........I nearly fell out of my chair laughing at that one!
And the same problem to a lesser degree hurt us nationally -- besides the war, there was all of the corruption in Congress. When one of our Party's Congresscritters goes to jail that's not helpful.
Before the election there was a lot of discussion here and on the Ohio board that Blackwell was solidly conservative, the base would be motivated and therefore we would do well. In fact, conservative Blackwell lost by over 20% and moderate DeWine lost by just over 10%. Blackwell just did not run a good campaign and was not attractive to voters in this state.
The point is that ideology is often not the most important factor in winning an election. Popularity is often more important. There is no other way to explain the current Governor of California.
His views have been posted repeatedly on nearly every thread that mentions Rudy Giuliani. The Rudy-Rooters want to dismiss it as "spam" because they don't want anyone to see the truth about where Rudy stands on the issues.
I compiled his views on issues important to Republicans in a chart and I've posted it in this thread - I believe in a post to you, even.
What you seem to be waiting for is some slick campaign propaganda packaged by political consultants on a multi-million dollar contract to rehabilitate Giuliani by whitewashing his egregiously anti-Republican views, statements and policies as mayor. If you have to be spoonfed everything in that manner, why are you here on Free Republic. If everyone here did that, Dan Rather's fake memo about George W. Bush would still be accepted as gospel and John Kerry would have been elected. We look into the way people stand on issues, dissecting everything they've said and done, and we discuss it here. And when we're talking about a liberal, we use their past statements and votes to hammer them over the head - especially when they're displaying hypocracy. That is precisely what is going on with Giuliani here when some of us are exposing his liberal record and statements in these threads.
That's smart, because electoral politics is too mobile for trench warfare.
We should never under estimate the role of popularity in an election. Guiliani has been a popular figure since 2001 (and before that) and I have not seen a decline in his popularity recently.
Let's just say there's too many pictures of him dressed in womens' clothes out there.
I never said the ethical problems of Taft didn't hurt.
Some people were shocked that a conservative like Blackwell lost by 20% when moderate DeWine lost by 10%. Blackwell is a good conservative and a good man, who would have made a great Governor, but he was not a good campaigner.
Look Ivan. We go way back to another political website. I've always respected your opinion. On this one, you're deadwrong. All we have to go by in choosing a candidate are his/her governing record, political record and stated or written opinion. When I look at Rudy Giuliani, I see one thing, a liberal. I know all about the good job he did reducing crime in NYC. That is not enough to elect Rudy as the GOP nominee.
Besides, for the last five years Rudy has done NOTHING in any way about altering his political positions. I really believe Rudy would be more satisfied with a Lawrence Tribe, a George Mitchell or even an Alan Dershowitz on the SCOTUS, then a Constitutional conservative like J. Scalia, J. Thomas or CJ Rehnquist.
I see no good reason to vote for Rudy.
While in Ohio, Rudy called into the Bill Cunningham radio show. Speaking about the Supreme Court, Rudy said: "Justices Roberts and Alito were both colleagues of mine [in the Reagan Justice Department] - people I worked with and I admire tremendously. I thought that they were inspired choices that the President made - inspired in many ways, because they also were people who had a strong conservative background and strict constructionists." He added, "Justice Scalia was also a colleague of mine...and he probably would have been my choice for Chief Justice."
Giuliani's close business partner (see Giuliani-Kerik LLC) who he appointed to by commissioner of the NYPD and later twisted Bush's arm into appointing him to be head of the Department of Homeland Security ended up narrowly escaping a jail sentence when he pleaded guilty and was convicted of his corruption crimes last year.
With Giuliani, you're arguing to repeat the exact same formula that you just condemned as contributing to our 2006 losses.
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