Posted on 01/28/2007 2:42:18 PM PST by PhiKapMom
January 29, 2007
A Giuliani fund-raiser will be held Jan. 29 in Pacific Palisades, Calif., at the home of Bill Simon, the 2002 Republican candidate for governor of California, costing $2,300 a person and $4,600 per couple.
January 30, 2007:
Mary Bono’s campaign is sponsoring a golf event to raise funds for Giuliani’s committee on Tuesday, at the Rancho Mirage home and golf course of Edra Blixseth, Porcupine Creek Golf Club. Information: (310) 500-4284 or by e-mail at events@marybono.com
February 1, 2007:
Texas Republican contributors are being solicited to spend $30,000 for dinner with former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani at the Houstonian Hotel in Houston Feb. 1 to finance his “presidential exploratory committee.” The “private” dinner will follow a 6:30 to 8 p.m. cocktail reception, costing $2,100 a person and $4,200 for couples.
The best-known host of Giuliani’s Houston event is billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens Jr., chairman of the private equity firm BP Capital Management. Also on Giuliani’s Texas fund-raising team are Tom Hicks, whose company owns the Texas Rangers baseball team; oil industry executive Jim Lee; and lawyer Patrick C. Oxford.
I mean did you know that Rudy is NOT a social conservative? He is NOT one. Do you get it? :-)
As opposed to the Rudy boosters ripping Reagan's legacy?
Or belittling pro-life groups as not wanting Roe v. Wade overturned, lest the donations stop?
Or claiming that those opposed to Rudy are against the military?
I've seen all that. If anything, the Romney supporters are much better. They (and he) at least realize they have to bridge the entire party. The Rudy boosters seen to think they can tell the right wing to go pound sand and that core right-wing values are a hinderance to winning the White House.
And that, quite frankly, is why you see this kind of response. I was not as driven against Rudy until I saw the hammers coming out against Reagan's legacy.
Rudy has a lot of GOP support. Does that just drive you crazy :-)
Once again, we are quite aware of that.
Now, do you also realize that social conservatives are a core constituency of the GOP? And that you cannot win the White House without them?
I don't even think EDwards has that kind of dough and I am not sure he has the stature to raise it, he spent a lot of it on that shack of his, geez! Mr two Americas, what an ass, LOL!
Really!
Rudy is also the most polarizing potential candidate within the GOP, and has a huge built-in opposition among social conservatives. Does that just drive YOU crazy?
Hatred and fanaticism won't win you many hearts and minds.
Its a small price to pay, if it means raising Rudy`s visability with FReepers/Lurkers. Isn't one of the Rudy-Rooters slogans, "win at all costs". Its insane. Most Republicans are conservative. These attacks on everything conservative, is the antithesis of what FR is all about.
I'd be curious which particular candidates those might be and whether they'd be annoyed with spam being posted on threads about that particular candidate.
I realize that we've gone through this before with forum wars involving Pat Buchanan and Alan Keyes. Instead of reasonable discussion, we get flame wars. Months of them.
It gets difficult to glean the reasonable discussion out of the numerous posts from the same cast of characters who descend on any thread to repeat their assertions, often using a cut and paste of the same post they made the previous hundred threads they were on.
Little new information gets exchanged, and what does is hidden in a barrage of spitballs.
I'd like to think FR could do better than this, but it hasn't shown that ability yet.
Do you find that calling people *baby killers* is helping to prevent abortion in this country. What success have you had so far with your hatred?
Do you feel that calling Rudy a baby killer is a kind thing?
How many babies do you believe he has killed?
Out here in Utah - we call it hatred. But then, we're not all that nuanced out here :-)
I saw that friggin house of his wretched excess from Mr. 2 Americas.....as one poster said what the hell does he have against trees?
I don't know. Some of you buddies keep posting it - I just am not sure whether the word has gotten out yet :-) So you, personally, are aware now, then, that Rudy Giuliani - who hasn't even declared yet - you are aware then - that he is NOT a social conservative? :-)
Are you aware also that a lot of social conservatives are supporting him?
Calling those who support killing babies babykillers is, well, factual. Odd that strikes you as hatred.
Not at all. You didn't answer the question. Does it just drive you crazy that Rudy has a lot of GOP support?
To remind those who might be fooled by the Rudy boosters - after all, Deroy Murdock tried to make a pro-life case for Rudy that abortions in NYC dropped 15 percent during his tenure, while neglecting to mention that they dropped 29 percent nationwide.
Those little nagging details that the Rudy boosters, for some strange reason, always seem to leave out.
LOL, he has name recognition. As his own words get out, he fails. Doesn't that drive you nuts?
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