Conservative Case Against Rudy Giuliani

Human Events ^ | August 30 2006 | John Hawkins

[Reagan Man]

ping

[stm]

I'll see your ping and raise you another ping!

[MikeA]

I guess now that trashing McCain has worn itself out, it's on to trashing Guiliani. I guess people won't be happy until they've nominated Foot in the Mouth Allen so we can spend all of 2008 defending his "macaca" slip up...if he even ends up surviving his Senate race now. Good job guys.

[mhx]

Bush's proposal to rewrite the Constitution

What?

[SDGOP]

DON YOUR FLAME SUIT!!!!

[romanesq]

You have to know what New York City was like until Giuliani came on the scene to fully appreciate his common sense approach to government.

He is far and away the better choice to most candidates on both sides.

[midnightcat]

true. NYC was a disaster until he came on board.

[monkeywrench]

It'd probably be easier defending Allen's "macaca" slip than the positions of liberal rudy. He has so much baggage. Alot we probably haven't even heard about, yet.

[churchillbuff]

his phenomenal performance after 9/11 was much appreciated."""

I know he appeared on TV a lot and said uplifting things. What else did he do after 9/11 that was "phenomenal"? Anybody .... anybody ... ?

[Reagan Man]

You want a hardcore northeast liberal to be the nominee for the GOP in 2008? Not me!

Conservatives shouldn't be supporting left of center candidates. Lets get a few solid conservative candidates in the mix and see what happens. There is still 16 months till the primary season starts and over two years till the general election. Long road ahead. No time to be ramming a liberal politico down the throats of the party faithful.

[romanesq]

A disaster doesn't even begin to describe how NYC was before the Mayor took a bulldozer to the existing political landscape of corruption and appeasement and liberal theology.

It was piled very high and he came in and crushed it. You could hardly believe it as it was happening. Statistics don't even begin to tell the story.

What happened to the idling groups of crimminals "patrolling" corners awaiting their next victims, threatening solicitations, rampant drug selling in all neighborhoods, etc.

It was just an amazing turnabout. He and his folks deserve a ton of credit.

[stm]

"One of the biggest selling points for Rudy Giuliani is supposed to be that he's "electable" because a lot of independents and Democrats will vote for him. The problem with that sort of thinking is that if he becomes the Republican nominee, the very liberal mainstream media will spend nine months relentlessly savaging him in an effort to help the Democrats. Because of that, Giuliani's sky high polling numbers with non-Republicans are 100% guaranteed to drop significantly before election time rolls around in 2008. "

This is the very reason why so many people have become do disenchanted with politics and liberal mainstream media.

[BaBaStooey]

Here is the reason why I wont be voting for Rudy:

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Next candidate, please

[Jake The Goose]

Look at FreeRepublics own poll. Rudy is by far the leader of the pack right now. For a simple reason - he is a leader.

[Prokopton]

"I guess now that trashing McCain has worn itself out, it's on to trashing Guiliani."


I find it amusing that merely revealing a politicians stances on issues, and many of the revelations made by direct quotes, is seen by the liberal wing of the Republican party as "trashing".
It all seems so, well, LIBERAL.

[Jake The Goose]

If Romney, McCain, and Giuliani were the only names on the ballot for the GOP 2008 nomination, whom would you vote for?

Giuliani
45.8%

Romney
28.3%

Sit it out
21.1%

McCain (who cares)

[stm]

You can thank Ed Koch and David Dinkins for that. Rudy really did take out the garbage.

[mhx]

The rest of the country isn't a crime disaster now like NYC was then. Why hire a guy with the wrong expertise? What does he know about foreign policy or economics? Not to mention that he disagrees with the Republican party on some large percentage of the important issues.

There are lots of real conservatives out there. If we keep running away from them, you can bet they'll never get elected.

[mkjessup]

I'm reminded of that famous "11th Commandment" of Ronald Reagan which was "Do not speak ill of a fellow Republican", and while that quaint notion may have passed by the wayside with the plethora of RINOs and pretenders in the GOP, the bottom line is that if America is given a choice between Rudy and Senator Mrs. Bill Clinton, there is no question who (hopefully) they're going to pull the lever for.

Unless the purists and self appointed "keepers of the conservative flame" decide that it's better to sit out the '08 election and let the 'Rats win it by default, we will hopefully have an electorate that will be pragmatic on Election Day, even if we who are right of center (and believe me, I'm so far right I have to keep adjusting my side view mirrors) will realize that even a (gag) "centrist" Republican is infinitely preferable to ANY Democrat, unless that Democrat was somebody like Zell Miller, and I think he's probably the last of his kind.