Posted on 11/14/2006 11:02:49 AM PST by Dark Skies
Agreed :-(
don't bother trying to recall any of that. Rudy doesn't believe in it and only the politicos and their good buddies get to carry. The right to keep and bear arms is a right that belongs to everyone, including the little guy. It's not a privaledge to be licensed. If the country club folks don't like it, that's tough.
"Rudy can get around the 2nd amendment issue easily if he were to explain that he was for gun control in NYC at a time when it was the crime capital of the world. By the time he was done, it was one of the safest cities in the world.
Rudy is a gun grabber. It's part of his worldview. He will not change his mind and I wouldn't believe him anyway. He's a player that whored around on his wives. I certainly won't be taken in by his games. It was not one of the safest cities in the world. It was one of hte biggest run by a strict authoritarian who disarmed and rendered defenseless the citizens that lived there.
"I lived in the City from the 70's to the 90's and I can tell you that Rudy solved problems that many New Yorkers thought were insoluble."
Wonderful. I never had much problem living in big cities at all, except for, corruption, gun grabbers, petty police action and the general demonization and prohibition of self defense.
Can you link to a source for that?
How did he pay for all those new police officers?.. New Yorkers love taxes even more than people in Massachusetts..
I almost forgot about that ... thanks for the reminder.
PhiKapMom,
GREAT POST!!!!
Personally, I am beginning to think that Rudy is the perfect candidate for the Republican Party. They don't want any more conseravtives, and Rudy isn't a conservative.
I don't care if Hillary! is running, though, I won't vote for Rudy. If the 'Pubbies nominate him, its simply more evidence they aren't my party any more.
You have a lot of anecdotal evidence and personal opinions regarding Rudy...can you link to any sources for your info?
I've voted straight Republican my entire life, supporting the GOP going back to 1968 in my high schools Young Republicans Club. I've never voted for a liberal in the GOP primaries or in the general elections. And I don't plan on changing my politics by voting for the liberal Giuliani. Conservatives don't run around two years out from a presidential election, glorifing and promoting liberal candidates. The GOP can do a lot better then Rudy. Besides, the GOP has nominated pro-life candidates since Reagan in 1980, and I don't see that changing. I'm not about to toss my principles away just because you've lost your mind.
Great post!!!
And if he gets it, he will destroy Hillary.
How much fun will that be........YEAH.
I was so disappointed when he didn't run against her for Senator. He would have been a shoo-in. And that was before 9/11.
--On Abortion: Leaflets distributed by the Giuliani campaign .... said that he opposes restrictions to Federal Medicaid financing for abortions and opposes the Hyde Amendment, which is intended to deny support for that financing. New York Times, June 18, 1993.
--Rudy Guiliani on abortion: "I'd give my daughter the money for it [an abortion]."
--"I never called for the overturning of Roe vs. Wade." Rudy Giuliani, New York Newsday, September 1, 1989
--As mayor, Rudy Giuliani will uphold a woman's right of choice to have an abortion. Giuliani will fund all city programs which provide abortions to insure that no woman is deprived of her right due to an inability to pay. He will oppose reductions in state funding. He will oppose making abortion illegal. New York Times, August 4, 1989
--On Partial Birth Abortion: Mr. Giuliani has said that New York State law should not be changed to outlaw the procedure. New York Times, January 7, 1998
These are not my words. I said he would be a good leader, not that he would create a new class of criminals. Don't put words in my mouth. Gun control in a densely populated and crime ridden city is a very different proposition from blanket gun control across the whole country. This was the essence of my post. Yet you twisted my words to suggest something quite the opposite.
Closed minds of social conservatives will cost us the election in 2008.
Too many, otherwise very intelligent people, don't seem to get or understand the Clinton's and what we are up against in 2008. It is not going to be a normal year or a normal election and unless people vote with their heads and not their emotions we will never recognize this country ten years from now.
New York Newsday of Sept. 1, 1989: Giuliani says that he so strongly favored abortion, "I'd give my daughter the money for it [an abortion]."
How did he pay for all those new police officers?
No insult intended but that's what the Dim's always say.
Proponents of tax cuts always respond that cutting taxes is a way to increase revenues...that's how he paid for new police officers.
Overtaxation is a killer of economies, tax cuts spur economic growth...you know that.
Got that right. It's going to be very, very ugly.
Well, that makes sense. I'm just not entirely sure how Rudy will position himself come 2008. If he goes with the "safe, legal, and rare" stance on abortion, and supports Federal "assault weapon" ban type of gun control, I think he'll have a tough sell. If he adopts a position closer to what your envisioning, he could win the nomination handily.
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