Posted on 03/18/2006 9:38:27 AM PST by UncleSamUSA
Face it. Absolute power has corrupted the GOP absolutely. If you are a freedom loving conservative, the best hope is gridlock.
It's not a myth. I hardly think of his post 9/11 performance when I think of Guiliani.
I was a New Yorker from well before his term. I left several years before he was elected and returned until just before his term ended.
He performed a political miracle in NYC. If he performed half as well for the Nation domestically and with International issues, he would leave a positive mark such as no President had done in my lifetime but Reagan.
He stands head and shoulders above anyone else running for the office. But only if actual accomplishments count.
FDR performed political miracles too. They're both totalitarian demagogues.
Well Rudy is a smart guy, but he should save his money at least here in Iowa.
So, if Giuliani doesn't run on 9-11, what is he going to run on?
Crime? Cleaning the streets?
Sorry, but the rest of the country isn't in need of his services.
As for internationalism, he's too pro-United Nations. We don't need a leader who would beg for permission from the UN to defend this country.
"can you imagine? a gop prez from massachusetts?"
Can you imagine? A Mormon as POTUS? Not going to happen.
LOL
One never knows, he may yet get your vote when you learn more about him.
You obviously have a lot to learn about his views and accomplishments.
IF he was smart, he would.
If you know him so well, why can't you spell his name right?
I am not a single issue voter. Rudy is a very powerful candidate and wins every poll he is in.His record on National Security and dealing with crime and terrorists (remember Arafat and NY?) makes his moderate stand on some social issues irrelevant. His courageous stand on many broader cultural issues like witholding funds from Museums for displaying art offensive to religion is excellent.
If he is the one who could beat the Dems in '08 he will have my vote.
Gush, gush.
Anther reason why he should not be President. He is on a crusade to abort everyone, is secretly gay while he has illicit affairs with any woman he can find just after he takes away her guns in violation of the Second Amendment, didn't burn down the UN while he was Mayor, and most importantly has a name susceptible to being easily misspelled.
One wonders where such boot-licking will take us against Iran.
Well, it certainly doesn't help when his supporters hand out buttons spelled GULLIANI at the Tennessee straw poll, and then ask us to trust they really know they guy.
Ping-a-ling. You might enjoy this thread.
A lesson for you in reality vs. rhetoric.
In reality anyone living in NYC knows he took no crap from the UN. He took away the thing they cared most about, privileged parking around the city, and physically told them where to shove their hero Yasser Arafat.
All the protests and negativity about Rudy tells me he has folks here worried.
I am for ALL of our candidates to run in primaries. How else to select the best one?
My hunch is his boot-licking was sincere.
Unfortunately, the best candidate frequentely doesn't win in the primaries or the Democrats would have had Liebermen not Kerry and we would not have had Dole in 1984, for two examples.
Republican absolutists armed with lies about Rudy can very well keep him from the nomination and usher in the next Clinton era.
My position is, why waste time with someone who would never win the general election, let alone the nomination? Giuliani is too liberal. Run him as a Democrat, he'd fit right in.
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