Posted on 09/04/2006 6:05:15 PM PDT by neverdem
With the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaching, I thought it would be a good idea to check up on Rudy Giuliani. He is the last remaining political action figure from that tragedy, having left office at the top of his game, before anything like the Iraq war could tarnish him. After years of private-sector buck-raking, the mayor is back in campaign mode, traveling across the country to help Republican candidates and thinking about running for president.
But is he ready for the brutality of a presidential race? This would be the week for him to practice savaging Democrats. The GOP effort to caricature Iraq war opponents has become both more coordinated and more creative. Would the nation's mayor talk about appeasing terrorists as Defense Secretary Rumsfeld did? Or would he use Vice President Cheney's line about self-defeating pessimism? Would he at least dish out a little "cut and run?"
I drove Wednesday night through rush hour to see Giuliani in Potomac, Md., a wealthy Washington suburb and sanctuary for bad architecture. He was visiting a local restaurant with Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, who's running for Senate. Steele recently has been on the defensive about critical remarks he made about the Iraq war and Republican Congress. You couldn't tell that from the candidate's raucous supporters. (The event was hosted by the Women of Steele, an organization that sounds dangerously like a USW pinup calendar.) The cell phones and Treos went up like periscopes to photograph the two men as they struggled to wade through the packed room.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
I wonder if George Allen has announced...I don't think so but he is such a superb candidate.
Get used to it, he will be the next POTUS and he is a damn sight better than any democrat.
He WAS ON THE BUS IN FLORIDA with W the Sunday before election day in 2000 and has always campaigned for GOP canidates.
Your post is ridiculous and you will look foolish when it turns out you are not correctly staing his positions at all.
"He and McCain are DOA as presidential candidates. I actually wish that we would just make the conscious decision to ignore them and waste no more time or bytes on them."
Polls also say they are the two strongest against any democrat.
That don't mean anything, tho, huh?
I'll stay out of this fight for the time being, but I'll tell y'all one thing......there is NOBODY I'd rather see debate Hillary Rodman than Rudy.
She'd leave the venue with her scrotum shrunken.
He and McCain are DOA as presidential candidates. I actually wish that we would just make the conscious decision to ignore them and waste no more time or bytes on them.
George Allen gets my vote.
Mine too...but he has got to win his current campaign for Senator.
I choose not to a frog in the pot
I choose not to be a frog in the pot.
"George Allen gets my vote."
I second that........
For those of you who didn't finish reading the article here is an excerpt from the end which shows that Giuliani thinks Murtha et. al. are good guys too.
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Time out," he said bringing his hands together to make a T. "Time out." The crowd quieted down. "The other thing we have to learn is that we can't get into this partisan bickering. The fact is that Republicans and Democrats have the same objectives. … Democrats are loyal Americans. Republicans are loyal Americans. I think we have better answers, but we have to respect each other."
This guy is never getting the nomination.
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I'm going to have to agree with the last line the author of this article wrote.
I liked Allen too.
But he makes me nervous.
Does anyone know if Jeff Sessions has any interest in running?
He would be the perfect candidate.
He'd have my vote
Well he was viscious enough to take on the Mob and white collar crime at its highest level.
I think the real question is, can America get viscious enough for RUDY.LOL
Don't really know..but if he had stayed in the NY Senate race to begin with then Hellary wouldn't be an issue today.
Those who value loyalty. Ask the guys who contributed to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth why they couldn't stand John Kerry.
He didn't have to endorse Pataki, but Der Fuhrer, who just became so popular because he happened to be mayor on September 11, 2001, goes and endorses uber liberal Mario Cuomo in 1994 and lifelong liberal Bloomberg to follow him in NYC.
When I think of Rudy, I think of three things: liberal RINO in the Rockefeller and Javits mode, statist and opportunist.
If there will be a more conservative main party candidate in the election, you better get them elected in the primary on the Republican ticket, at that point either a R or D will win. Split the R voting and you get a D result, which is what most libertarians try to do IMO.
I hope we get lots of good candidates going for it.
When has that happened? Maybe in some local races but on the Presidential level I don't remember a libertarian splitting the Republican party? Am I forgetting someone? I'd hardly call Ross Perot a libertarian nor would I call Buchannan a libertarian.
You know the saying 'God works in myterious ways'? Rudy was all set to run for the senate seat and got cancer...he had to pull out and then Hillary ran and won. And what do ya know, 9/11 came, and Rudy led NY and most of the country when we needed it the most. Yes, God works in mysterious ways and I always remember this example when something bad happens in my life. I know God has a much better plan for me. I lived in NJ for years and saw every day on the news how Rudy fought organized crime and cleaned up NYC. God bless Rudy and I already know what I neeed to know, and that is that he can lead our country.
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