Posted on 11/18/2005 3:30:15 PM PST by seastay
Giuliani will never be nominated. He's not just too liberal, he's way, way too liberal.
And I actually have met him and like him personally.
Never say never. If the GOP is desperate enough for a winner by then, he might get nominated.
Giulani is for gun control. Condi is AGAINST it. Waaaaay against it.
"I am a 2nd Amendment absolutist!" -- Condoleezza Rice
And "blah, blah". Sounds like some political hack pollster who'd like to see Hilary win in '08 because it's a "cast in stone, take it to the bank" fact that the conservative base sits that one out.
Guiliani is a winner - I would take him over McCain, who I would never be able to trust
Great, another election where the candidates battle over the title of "Who SUCKS the Least".
A liberal beating a liberal?
"Giulani is for gun control. Condi is AGAINST it."
And for abortion and U.N. sell-outs like LOST. We can do so much better than Rice, Giuliani, McCain and that ilk.
Well. I can say that I would never vote for either one of them, and you can take that to the bank.
In NYCity and maybe NYState. But Rudi could never win the GOP nomination for Prez. Never.
How does he become a winner before he's even nominated? He can't win anyway. People who are looking for a proabortion, progay, gun control candidate have the real thing to choose from in Hillary. Meanwhile Republicans who are Republicans becasue of abortion, moral decay and the second amendment will simply stay home.
To win the presidency you need your party's base. Giuliani simply can't get moral conservatives.
Rice/Honore '08!
I don't know. I've heard some speeches and interviews. I would not say he is a true conservative but I also don't think he's a RINO. He makes Bloomberg look like Ted Kennedy. And anything less than a RINO these days is worth looking at.
Winning ticket in 2008: Allen/Giuliani
It was the Jesuit College affiliation that
struck me. I'd prefer to see the same questions
asked by different private organizations (not
colleges!) across the nation. How about polling
employees of companies like Motorola, GE, Microsoft,
Sears, etc.? That's the REAL man on the street...not
students at a religious college.
MY FRiend, Rudi Guiliani is an Ahnold Schwarzy type politico. Pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-homo rights, pro-big govt and pro-envirowackoism. Rudi is also pro-illegal immigrant. Neither Rudi or Ahnold are anywhere near being a Reagan conservative.
I second the motion.
Executives are the ones who the Presidency - incumbent or former governors, and sometimes a former general. It is very, very rare for someone without government executive experience to win the Presidency, and they must first be nominated. Which means that the 2008 GOP nominee, to win, will either be or have been governor of a state, or something equivalent to that, i.e., Guiliani's experience (highly successful mayor of the biggest city in the country). There aren't any former generals on the horizon.
The more I see of Jeb Bush, though, the more I like him.
But Rudi Giuliani is a national hero - he combines the attractive political qualities of a successful general AND a successful governor.
Senator McCain is more than a Senator - he has some military hero quality too, but it's personal and not associated with successful leadership like Giuliani's.
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