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Giuliani Says GOP Open to Diverse Views
Associated Press ^ | May 1, 2006 | MIKE GLOVER

Posted on 05/02/2006 4:19:06 AM PDT by kingattax

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Raising money for local Republicans even as he ponders his own political future, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Monday that Republicans must increasingly be "a big party" that accepts divergent views.

Giuliani said that broad-brush themes, like limited government, ought to define the Republican Party -- not hot-button social issues like abortion and gay rights.

"The major thing that we organize around as Republicans is government that puts more reliance on people than government," Giuliani said. "They (Democrats) tend to think of government solutions as most of the answers."

Giuliani was in Iowa to raise money for Jeff Lamberti, a Republican candidate for Congress, and Rep. Jim Nussle, who is running unopposed for the Republican nomination for governor.

Giuliani was also clear he's considering his own future ambitions.

"I am interested in public service again," he said. "My effort this year will be to help Republicans get elected and, quite honestly, a part of it also is saying to myself 'Does it look like I have a chance in 2008?'"

Some strategists believe Giuliani will face significant hurdles in Republican politics because he supports abortion rights and favors tough gun control laws, views that contrast those held by many core Republican voters.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigtent; giuliani; giuliani2008; gop; ia2008; republicans; rinoforprez; rudy
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Sorry, Rudy. Not interested.
1 posted on 05/02/2006 4:19:10 AM PDT by kingattax
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To: kingattax

Will someone please tell this NY'er to go away. He's wasting everyones time.


2 posted on 05/02/2006 4:21:47 AM PDT by Vision ("There are no limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence" Ronald Reagan)
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To: kingattax
Sorry, Rudy. Not interested.

Well, Rudy is getting back to what it means to be a political conservative.

Of course, if you really want a simply socially conservative government, you can try the Taliban or Iran. Maybe they're more up your alley.

3 posted on 05/02/2006 4:23:46 AM PDT by mc6809e
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To: kingattax

I think he means RINOS are open to diverse views.


4 posted on 05/02/2006 4:26:31 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: kingattax

...for later...


5 posted on 05/02/2006 4:27:03 AM PDT by LIConFem (A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
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To: mc6809e

your inane comment was duly noted and properly ignored.


6 posted on 05/02/2006 4:29:29 AM PDT by kingattax
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To: Vision

And if Rudy the Lionhearted Leader is wasting time, imagine what Gov. Pataki is doing. On CSpan they showed him on Road to the White House, campaigning among small groups in New Hampshire. Unreal.


7 posted on 05/02/2006 4:30:05 AM PDT by txrangerette ("We are fighting al-Qaeda, NOT Aunt Sadie"...Dick Cheney commenting on the wiretaps!!)
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To: mc6809e

Why do you hate America?


8 posted on 05/02/2006 4:30:05 AM PDT by durasell (!)
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Why do you hate America?

Holy crap! It's Sean Hannity!

9 posted on 05/02/2006 4:31:15 AM PDT by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: kingattax
" "If you try to deal with it through either extreme, I think you would make a terrible mistake," Giuliani said. "If you were to pass a law making everybody who is here, allegedly, illegally a criminal with a penalty of five years in jail, we would become a much more insecure country. You drive them farther underground, you push them more toward criminal activity"

Rudy, and most of those looking for expediant ground or political cover, love to over state what we really want.........Just enforce the current law. We don't need new laws, we need politicians with the stones to enforce those we have.

And by the way, Rudy, if there here illegally theres no alledgedly about it they are a criminal.

10 posted on 05/02/2006 4:31:15 AM PDT by Kakaze (I'm now a single issue voter.....exterminate Al Quaida)
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To: Wormwood

LOL! Okay, I just blew coffee out my nose!


11 posted on 05/02/2006 4:31:52 AM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: kingattax

Rudy, we are all onto cluless you, mouthing meaningless platitudes to advance yourself.

Rudy can't seem to come to grips with the fact that the Most Important Thing is what Republican voters think about a candidate.

Rudy is the most self-serving politician extant today---he even beats some Dims. That's b/c Rudy was (and is) a Dim...he magically added an "R" to his name when he ran for NYC Mayor.

Rudy always does what he feels in HIS best interests----like endorsing Dimocrat Mario Cuomo for governor b/c Rudy calculated it was in HIS best interests to have a Dim in Albany to further HIS political ambitions.

Rudy stepped on so many in his search for power. He never learned the Big Lesson Of Life: "Be careful who you step on, on your way up---because you are going to meet them on the way down."


12 posted on 05/02/2006 4:34:13 AM PDT by Liz (We have room for but one flag, the American flag." —Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: mc6809e

Beat that strawman. Beat him hard.


13 posted on 05/02/2006 4:36:20 AM PDT by JCEccles (Kitzmiller Syndrome: anger and paranoia that someone is harboring critical thoughts about darwinism.)
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To: Liz

He never learned the Big Lesson Of Life: "Be careful who you step on, on your way up---because you are going to meet them on the way down."


There's a slightly different version in NYC politics: Remember who you step on during the way up, so you can step on them again on the way down.


14 posted on 05/02/2006 4:36:21 AM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: kingattax

Rudy pimpin' for the party and himself.


15 posted on 05/02/2006 4:36:31 AM PDT by gitmogrunt (oppose one farce at the border)
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To: Liz

Rudy should move to Memphis and run for Mayor!!!!!!!!!


16 posted on 05/02/2006 4:39:19 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, over there, We won't be back 'til it's over Over there.")
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To: kingattax

"Giuliani ...favors tough gun control laws..."

And I favor America's 1776 revolution that threw New York City Tories out of the country who tried to impose gun control.


17 posted on 05/02/2006 4:39:52 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Communism is 3 people voting on what's for dinner but you still get the same old commissar rice)
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To: sergeantdave

amen, sarge


18 posted on 05/02/2006 4:41:17 AM PDT by kingattax
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To: kingattax

Rudy, it ain't gonna happen. At least not if you try to run as a Republican.
RINO alert for Rudy.


19 posted on 05/02/2006 4:42:22 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: Joe Boucher

As a New Yorker I always thought of Rudy as a super-liberal,who did not want to get mugged.He was better than David Dinkins.


20 posted on 05/02/2006 4:55:13 AM PDT by ardara
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