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.
Same in Oklahoma -- identical situation. We are the only two states that every county went for Bush in 2004!
I heard person after person say they were not voting for our Governor's candidate because he was too far right and scared them. We got clobbered because the social conservatives got their candidate and mainstream conservative OK wanted no part of it.
Your "freedom" to do what? Marry someone of the same sex?
I should clarify. These people vote Democrat because they feel there is no where else to go. The GOP needs to court these people and bring them into the party.
The radical social conservatives can go elsewhere.
I know what you mean. I know people like that, too. They believe in personal responsiblity. They don't like the idea of a nanny state. They think people can figure out what to do with their own money better than government can - they think that most people can solve their own problems and that - just maybe - it's not the end of the world if people have problems(s) - but - they look at Alan Keyes - and his ilk - and they think - "I want no part of that"
No, it's you who is delusional. You are not capable - I don't think - of telling yourself the truth.
High five! (s)
Yeah, it's time to stop pandering to these extremists. They don't support the party, anyway.
The Teri Schiavo case is a perfect example of what people fear about the Radical Right. People feel they have a right to make their own decisions about end of life. I know I do.
The sturm and drang of the radicals was damaging and devisive. I was truly embarrassed for the party.
Have you looked at the percentages of voters who voted for marriage amendments in the various states? Are these voters, massive majorities, somehow "radical social conservatives"?
Do you think a Republican nominee can win without supporters of the Second Amendment? Are all such patriots "radical social conservatives"? Do you understand why even John Kerry thought it necessary to be photographed with a gun in his hand? Do you understand why most Democrats have to lie about thier beliefs and their agenda in most places concerning these issues to have any hope of winning?
Do you understand why even Hillary Clinton has to parse her language when it comes to abortion?
Your electoral strategy is deeply flawed, to be kind.
Is it so hard for you to follow a conversation?
The far right - folks like you - want to take away people's freedom to determine their own beliefs and live accordingly. You want to control and dominate - just as you can't tolerate different views - in power you would be a tyrant - forcing everyone to live by your beliefs.
The marriage amendment is very widely supported. Even by liberals.
You should know this. Sometimes it seems like you have no experience in the REAL world.
That would be so wise. 47% of voters in November identifed themselves as independent. They are the ones we should be reaching out to. I want to see the GOP as welcoming as open. We have great ideas and great people. Karl Rove was wrong, I think - to ignore the independents.
Wrong. I'm simply protecting my own, and fulfilling my obligation to stand up for the weak and helpless among us.
You, and those like you, on the other hand, want the butchery of abortion to continue on into the hundreds of millions dead instead of the mere fifty million or so they've killed so far. You may or may not have had an abortion youself, you probably haven't performed one, but you're an enabler anyhow. And so is Rudy.
Except conservatives. We've got it.
Sometimes I feel sorry for him. I don't think he knows what it means to be a human being.
Making abortion illegal is not ending it.
I wish more people like you would do more to change the reasons it happens.
Except the unappeaseables. But you already know that. You're just being dishonest.
LOL...but...but...they're "radical social conservatives" who put those up on the ballot.
If it weren't for those ballot measures, John Kerry would be the occupant of the Oval Office.
Unappeasables. What insulting twaddle.
Hah. It's people who believe like me who run the crisis pregnancy centers.
Sunsong and I are Conservatives whether you want to acknowledge it or not.
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