Posted on 10/02/2005 9:21:43 AM PDT by wagglebee
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Sunday he will contemplate next year whether to run for president in 2008.
"I will be considering it next year," Giuliani said during a visit to Denmark. But he added that playing with the idea of running for the Republican nomination for president did not mean he would actually do it.
"Sometime you warm up and get ready and you don't get in and pitch," he told reporters, in a baseball analogy.
Giuliani who was praised for his leadership following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, thanked Danish firefighters who raised $8,400 in support for their New York colleagues.
"To us it was the only thing we could do, raise money and show our support," firefighter Jens Hjorth said.
Eight firefighters from the station raised the money by recording a CD with six songs called "The Skyline Changed." They sold 27,000 copies.
On Sunday, the band members handed over a copy of the CD to Giuliani, who in return gave them a New York Fire Department hat.
Giuliani was in Denmark to speak at a business leadership conference in the Danish capital on Monday.
In 2000, Giuliani ran for the U.S. Senate, but dropped out after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
I repeat, we win bigtime on the partial birth abortion issue, when anyone bothers to bring it up. Ask anyone what they think of partial birth abortion. But Rudy is not the man for that kind of debate, is he?
Bush did, indeed, have trouble with Kerry. Why? Bush is a moderate. He even increased funding of the NEA. He spends like a drunken sailor. And his popularity is dropping because conservatives are irritated with him about borders and other issues.
I would consider voting for Rudy if GWB appoints AT LEAST three supreme court justices. If not, no way.
Good grief! He's got so many skeletons in his closet the door isn't even shut.
"Maybe they don't like it, but a vast number want the laws to remain exactly as they are. If you believe otherwise you are deluding yourself."
Then why is their acceptance of abortion so limited? Rape/incest/life of mother. Very limited. And very few abortions are due to that.
Yeah Rudy, you running for President of DENMARK might work, but not here.
ta-ta, see ya, don't let the door hit you, buh-bye!
(ps: You have a phone call, your girlfriend mistress is on line two)
Don't understand your question. Whose acceptance?
Tell me what you think would occur if Roe is overturned. What's your guess of how many States will continue to allow Abortions?
Then count their electoral votes.
He SHOULD run for Senator from NEW YORK this year and take out Hilderbeast BEFORE she has the chance to use that seat as a springboard to the Presidency.
Running for Rudy for Senate gets rid of sucky RINO candidate Jeannie Pirro (along with her legions of supporters trying to shove that unelectable mafia princess down our throats), and clears the field for John Spencer to run for Governor and Ed Cox to run for A.G.
Case closed!
Rudy, run in NEW YORK and you both be NOMINATED and WIN!
No elections are won based on turn out. Half of people eligible to vote usually don't. When you tap into just 5% of them, when you give them a reason to go to the polls, you win.
psst... there is no middle.
He may not be conservative enough for some but he is electable and would do a fine job on most important issues.
He would do well with foreign policy issues.
Consrvatives would dissagree with him on certain domestic policies such as abortion.
They could work those issues on a local basis.
You really believe the next Presidential election will turn on partial birth abortion? Or Abortion in general? Or gays? Or guns?
As I wrote above, it will turn on the issues that are Giuliani's strengths.
I think it is a big mistake to run someone solely out of fear of Hillary. First of all, I truly don't believe that she is as popular as many on this site believe, not to mention those who openly despise the woman. I believe the latter group is more passionate and organized than those who are Hillary fans. Second of all, if we run someone to the left, then liberals will have already won a small victory even if she ultimately loses.
In 1989, a wave of polls concerning abortion took place. In a Newsweek poll (July 17, 1989) 74% voted to require parental consent for minors seeking abortion, and 88% supported mandatory counseling for women considering an abortion. In a Los Angeles Times survey, 61% considered abortion immoral, and 57% thought of it as murder.
Boston Globe (March 31), New York Times (January 22), Los Angeles Times (March 19), and Newsweek (April 24) conducted polls asking under what circumstances abortion should remain legal. The average results are:
Life/Health of Mother........................................90%
Rape/Incest..................................................75%
Fetal Handicap...............................................65%
Can't Afford.................................................40%
Too Many Children............................................40%
Emotional Strain.............................................35%
To Finish School.............................................28%
Not Married..................................................25%
As Birth Control.............................................16%
Sex Selection.................................................2%
Obviously, that's an old poll. I invite you to show other polls that specifically mention different reasons for abortions.
"You really believe the next Presidential election will turn on partial birth abortion? Or Abortion in general? Or gays? Or guns?"
They well could. Bush and Dole were very low key about them. But people aren't low key about partial birth abortion when they hear it for the first time. They start shouting, cussing, etc. Same with NEA funding.
Gun rights are a big issue here in Virginia advertizing [which pleasantly surprised me to be honest], as well as abortion-on-demand. The only thing our leftist candidate [Caine] is mentioning is a trumped up 'meth scandal' [Kilgore believes in more freedom to buy over-the-counter medicine], and Caine tried to say he's against abortion and gay marriage but got nailed on them.
Another big issue will be Eminent Domain.
"I believe the latter group is more passionate and organized than those who are Hillary fans."
And the Clintonista are the main reason. So long as there is fear of the Clintons, that helps keep people motivated. Sad but true.
I hope that the country's situation at the time of the next election is such that those are the major issues.
It will mean we a safe and prosperous.
I doubt that very much.
"Anybody but Hillary" will work about as well for us as "Anybody but Bush" worked for the Dems.
I never said switch hitting. I never said flip-flopping. I said modification. I suggested movement. I do not see it as hypocritical, if the shift has happened across a reasonable time. Kerry's problem was that he could embrace diametrically opposite positions on an issue in the same week!
I personally think that politicians who undergo honest change, and can articulate it (whether they have moved to a position I like or not) are worth a look at, if only on the honesty level. It is absurd to say no politician can ever change his position on an issue. Why--can't I have been brainwashed into thinking Roe v. Wade was great law at 19, but now that I'm in my 50s, I think it's an abomination, on many, many levels?
That transformation took growth, over time, both intellectual and moral.
And another thing (continuing with the abortion issue): If we have lobbied and prayed for change for so long...and a former "pro-choice" politician decides, after time and consideration, that he is now pro-life, do we reject him for being a hypocrite? Or do we welcome him and thank God?
If Rudy wants to run for the presidency, he would be foolish to run for the senate in '06. It would be bloody, expensive, and if he lost, it would sour his '08 presidential bid.
The main reason he doesn't have to take on Hillary now for the senate (your "unfinished business") is that, 9/11 was one of the most transformation events in our history, and Rudy was right there being transformed along with it. Put another way: he's above a knock-down, drag-out battle with Hillary for the senate now.
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