Posted on 02/01/2006 5:23:40 AM PST by areafiftyone
A big-government, pro-abortion pol from NYC, who can't deliver his state to the Republican column, comes South. Save your cash, Rudy. Southerners deal with the slickest pols from infancy, and you won't fool them into thinking you're a conservative.
He's going to be the next president unless a strong, smart conservative emerges.
Actually Rudy is polling really well in South Carolina and Georgia - better than any other Republican. McCain is a hard second regardless of what Freepers think. We are only a tiny portion of the electorate. If we want someone like Allen to run (which I am totally NOT AGAINST running for president) we need him to poll alot better than 3%.
BINGO!!!
I will vote for Rudy if I have to.
I'm not sure who that will be. But its not McCain and its not Lamar and its not Hagel.
Maybe Buchanan will run again. *groan*
I would if its a choice between Rudy and McCain. But I am willing to vote for whomever the nominee is.
Wouldn't that be a nice way to split the party and give us a Democrat. No thanks. Has Perot taught us nothing?
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! LOL Well at least it will provide some comic relief! LOL
FReepers are like DUers at least so far as they think their views represent the mainstream in their party. I so often try to say that, with certain popular FR issues, the Republican Party mainstream is actually not with them.
The simple fact that a pro-Kerry quisling like McCain could poll 22% in a place like South Carolina...that sends shivers down my spine.
If Giuliani polls 28% against 22% for McCain in South Carolina...he can easily take the primaries in the south as well as the north.
I don't see Senator Allen making headway. Giuliani can talk him to death. I am from New York originally. Giuliani is a great politician in that he can eat a dozen opponents for breakfast and spit em out and smile.
If someone disagrees with him on a few issues...be depressed, be very depressed. But don't worry about him being pro-abortion. That isn't accurate.
I'll vote for Rudy over McLame anyday.
You got it.
I've been reading on this board for several years now that Rudy can't win in the South. Yet for the third election cycle, he is campaigning aggressively for southern GOP candidates and is being met with enthusiastic crowds. His IUO list continues to grow.
He'll cash them in 2008, when he will be the GOP candidate who will win in the South and pick off blue states like NY, NJ and Penn.
Nominate Guiliani and you'll see much more of a party split than the whole Buchanan thing.
I believe Rudy is a fiscal conservative. It is his social views that are the problem. I think he is the most competent politician in the U.S. and would overlook the social views just to get his leadership. Our security trumps everything in today's world.
HE IS NOT WELCOME.
RUDI GO HOME.
Very well put and very true. I watched George Allen and Giuliani last night on Hannity and Colmes and they both came off very well but Giuliani stood out. Colmes tried to back him in a corner but it didn't work. If Allen wants to run he needs to stand out more. He has potential but he's polling sooo poorly right now.
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