Posted on 07/05/2006 4:45:11 AM PDT by Jim Noble
Will Rudolph Giuliani be a heavyweight presidential contender in 2008? Some of his enemies evidently think so. They have already begun to raise the alarm.
One early entry is "Giuliani Time," a newly released documentary film that aims to land a pre-emptive blow. The title gives the game away even before the start. "It's Giuliani time" is the phrase said to have been uttered by a New York City policeman as he sodomized Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant, with a broomstick in a Brooklyn precinct house in 1997. ...
Within the film itself, the director Kevin Keating has lined up a series of talking heads to explain why the two-term mayor of New York is in fact to be regarded as an evil figure. The principal voice is that of Wayne Barrett, a Village Voice reporter and the author of a 1999 book, "Rudy! An Investigative Biography," which argued that city hall under Mr. Giuliani was "a government of, for and by white people." Other witnesses for the prosecution flitting across the screen include some who, in the pre-Giuliani era, helped bring New York to its knees. One of them is the political scientist Frances Fox Piven, whose influence during the mayoralty of John V. Lindsay in the late 1960s contributed to a doubling of the city's welfare roles; another is Norman Siegel, who as head of the New York Civil Liberties Union labored tirelessly to thwart the crime-fighting efforts of the New York City police department; a third is Ron Kuby, the attorney who played a bit part in lighting the long fuse that went off on 9/11 by helping to win a murder acquittal for Sayed Nosair in the 1990 assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane. (Nosair's apartment contained plans for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center..)
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The only issue for years to come will be the war against islamofascism.
Lose that war by electing a dim, and the country will sink into disaster.
You could fill volumns with the empty threat of "forming a third party".
You are correct as well.
I frankly despise James Dobson (I think he's full of himself). Having said that I can't begin to deny that there is a cult of personality there and a lot of people will do what he or Frank Pastore or Oprah for that matter tells them.
Abortion: President nominates, Senate confirms or not, Justice decides as he will. All takes deliberation, various inputs and time.
Gun rights: Best the President can do is propose something. Congress decides. Court may or may not agree.
Gay issues: Local. Legal. Very little input, if any, from the President. Where he tries- like Bush did- ineffectual, laughable.
Terrorism- The President
Iran- The President
North Korea- The President.
Immediate issues, national security issues, trade and economic issues, and everything that flows from those, we think of the President first and foremost.
Folks should put priorities in order. In our Checks and Balances, Separation of Powers system of Government, the criteria to judge fitness for office should be how the candidate will perform in the area that the Office will dominate. the President dominates security and foreign policy.
For what is needed in a President, think of the major issues confronting Bush, Giuliani is in a league of his own.
Abortion: President input- if any- is a nomination, Senate confirms or not, Justice decides as he will. All takes deliberation, various inputs and time.
Gun rights: Best the President can do is propose something. Congress decides. Court may or may not agree.
Gay issues: Local. Legal. Very little input, if any, from the President. Where he tries- like Bush did- ineffectual, laughable.
Terrorism- The President
Iran- The President
North Korea- The President.
Immediate issues, national security issues, trade and economic issues, and everything that flows from those, we think of the President first and foremost.
Folks should put priorities in order. In our Checks and Balances, Separation of Powers system of Government, the criteria to judge fitness for office should be how the candidate will perform in the area that the Office will dominate. The President dominates security and foreign policy.
For what is needed in a President, think of the major issues confronting Bush, Giuliani is in a league of his own.
Sorry for the double post.
I don't disagree with what you wrote.
The mirror image is Lieberman's troubles. Far left Democrats would throw him overboard because he doesn't conform to their far Left wing ideas of what a Democrat should be.
And many Conservative Republicans will not see what good Giulani can do where it counts because of issues where he is not lock step with their ideology in areas where a President is ineffectual anyway.
They may very well deny him the nomination- to the Nation's loss.
Even more tragic is that in 2008, denying Giulaini the nomination, to a ideological pure candidate, and which non entity would be that lucky person, will assure a Democrat President elected.
Rino, Anti-2nd amendment, pro-abortion, pro-illegal amnesty. Sure.. he will be a shoo-in for POTUS. </sarc>
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