Posted on 04/05/2006 12:21:18 AM PDT by goldstategop
The American people got shafted in 2000 and 2004 with some rotten political choices.
In fact, the American people get shafted with rotten political choices all the time – choices called Democrats and Republicans.
There are some people gearing up to ensure that your choices in 2008 are just as rotten as they have been since about 1988.
We all know who the leading Democratic candidate for president is – Hillary Clinton.
But do you know who the leading Republican candidate is as of this moment?
By some reckonings, it is Rudy Giuliani.
No, the smart money has long suggested that Giuliani is incapable of winning the Republican nomination for the presidency because of his hideous positions on homosexuality and abortion. But it appears Giuliani is aware of this weakness and is attempting to hoodwink American evangelicals the way Bill Clinton did.
As Andrew Sullivan put it, "If Rudy is talking Jesus, he's going to run."
And, boy, is he ever talking the talk.
Now, before I tell you what he said, and to whom he said it, let me first introduce to you the real Rudy Giuliani.
Is America really ready for a drag-queen president?
Can America survive another obnoxious phony baloney masquerading as one thing and governing as another?
Will Republicans be fooled again and nominate a candidate who favors unrestricted abortion on demand?
Should we expect the Grand Old Party to become the Gay Old Party in 2008 and put its stamp of approval on a guy 100 percent committed to the homosexual activist agenda?
No that photo you're seeing has not been retouched. It really is Rudy Giuliani made up in a blond wig and pink dress in a spoof of "Victor-Victoria" for the 1997 Inner Circle dinner. He followed that up with more cross-dressing antics on "Saturday Night Live." Then in 2001, he agreed to appear in drag in an episode of "Queer As Folk."
Rudy Guiliani In Drag
Is it possible that Giuliani could survive all this to become the Republican nominee for the presidency in 2008?
He's going to try. And his strategy for overcoming his past is to reach out to Christians – pretending, quite frankly, that he is one.
Back in January, Giuliani was invited to speak to the Global Pastors Network in Orlando – an evangelical group determined to establish 5 million new churches around the world in the next decade to fulfill the Great Commission.
Suddenly, before this audience, Giuliani was transformed into a man of faith.
Asked if he was running for president, he said: "Only God knows. I'll know better in a year whether I can fully commit to that process." Notice he said "fully commit," which suggests he is already partially committed.
The pastors unwisely said they'd pray for him. I hope they meant that they would pray for his conversion, pray that he would renounce his sins, pray that he would not run for president, pray that he would not win. But I have no such confidence in foolish evangelicals who are too easily seduced by worldly power politics.
Giuliani's response: "I appreciate you. I can tell you from my heart how much I appreciate what you are doing: saving people, telling them about Jesus Christ and bringing them to God."
Excuse me, shouldn't a man with Giuliani's record be kicked out of the church? Again, I'm all for praying for his salvation, but does anyone really believe Giuliani is a sincere follower of Jesus Christ? Shame on any professing Christian who doesn't have sufficient discernment to see through this charade.
Guess what, folks: If you fall for this self-serving hokum, you will have only yourself to blame for your poor political choices in 2008.
The sooner, the better... like I said...
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In WWII, it took two of them to prevail in SE Asia.
Try Japan.
Yes, that is in SE Asia... A Samurai never concedes defeat...
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General Patton might well have prevailed against the Soviet Red Army, however there is no way to tell how hard the Russians would have fought to keep their recently reclaimed territory,...
It was Eisenhower and Truman who let the Russians get in first... PATTON WAS RIGHT...
The Russians did not have the bomb at the end of WWII and had no idea of how many we had...
Oh,PLEASE!
A gag now makes a guy a drag queen? I wonder how many people here have, at one time or another, attended a Halloween party dressed as a woman, a nun, etc. Show of hands, please? If you have, do you consider yourself to be gay?
You can make a legitimate case about positions on abortion, gun control, etc, when it comes to Giuliani, and that would be fair game. This is not.
If we applied the same kind of (often anal-retentive)criteria to all candidates, past and present, George Washington couldn't be elected preisdent, should he arise from the grave and find the job worth having again.
Patton was right. He would, however, have LOST....badly.
'When was the last time you saw a serious presidential candidate in a "compromising" photo like this?'
John Kerry in the space man suit?
"My biggest concern with Rudy would be judicial appointments. I would need to hear something in this area to show that he is going to appoint judges in the manner that Pres. Bush has."
This is the main reason why Rudy probably should NOT be in the White House.
I agree. But you missed my point.
We need the RINOs to eventually support our candidate.
There is nothing Rudy running, losing the nomination and going around the country supporting the GOP candidate. I think that will be a good thing.
a Mrs. Clinton, will lash out with nukes and do the job Bush doesn't want to face doing, albeit hugely messily and with tremendous unnecessary collateral destruction (she might well nuke Canberra to show she is not profiling).
Too bad Rudy's pro-choice.
I would rather have gridlock than another liberal elitist RINO like Bush. We have gained nothing with Bush - yes libs are much, much, much worse. But having RINOs like McCain, Guiliani and Bush is still going to drive us over the cliff - instead of 100mph with the libs well just go at 50 mph.
Its like comparing bad to worse. Ill take neither thank you.
Sorry. I have this compulsion to point out illogic whenever I see it. I'd better see a therapist about this...
Rudy has WAY too much baggage to be considered a serious Republican presidential candidate. A Democrat, maybe.
""Boy, you're awfully terrified of gays, aren't you?
""As cliche as it sounds, I'm really convinced people THAT obsessed with the whole thing have their own repressed "issues" along those lines....""
That logic would make us all suppressed liberals and big government fanatics. Not to mention lovers of all things Clinton.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Most all New Yorkers are a bit queer.. others more than that..
I'm not sure that you're doing Rudy any good by comparing him to Nixon.
On the one had...
Rudy Giuliani did echo the values of his constituents in New York by approving of homosexuality and abortion.
On the other hand...
Rudy cleaned up Time Square of the pornography and prostitution that made it so famous, and lowered the murder rate in New York by a couple thousand a year, so that NY is now among the SAFEST places to live (!!!)
I want to know what kind of judges he will nominate. If he is politically pro-choice, but believes in most constitutionalist / originalist positions, it is very possible he will select very pro-life judges. But I need to hear him say he is an originalist / constitutionalist, if not that he is pro-life.
My other gripe with him is that he is strongly for open borders.
P.S. I would love to see Denny Crane meet Rudy while Rudy is playing Frooty Rudy. If ANYTHING could leave Denny speechless, I'm sure that'd be it.
A Republican in drag... Now THAT'S funny!
Aw cripes.... I eneterd that tag line once... and it's been following me?
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