Posted on 11/14/2006 11:02:49 AM PST by Dark Skies
Giuliani has been carefully preparing for this moment. He spent the past election season accumulating a reservoir of good will among Republicans, campaigning hard for Republican candidates from Oregon to New Hampshire. He was particularly adept at raising money for those candidates and has established himself as one of few presidential hopefuls capable of raising the $100 million or so that is seen as necessary to win the White House. At the moment, he is getting help from Anne Dickerson, who ran President Bush’s highly successful Pioneer and Ranger fundraising machine in 2004.
Giuliani has allied closely with Bush & Co. He made a high profile speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention and has gone on the road to stump with President Bush. There has also been speculation, started by the Washington Post's Kathleen Parker, that Ken Mehlman, the outgoing Republican National Committee chairman and former Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign manager, will be joining the Giuliani camp.
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Do you have a link?
The midterms turned out badly for the Republicans because people felt they were not going in the right direction. Getting away from those core conservative issues will do nothing to address the disenfranchisement those voters feel.
Get back to basics. The border. The war. Property owner's rights. Abortion/embryonic research (Do you realize that for many of us who believe life begins at conception, just paying our taxes makes us an accessory to murder if the FedGov contributes anything to abortion? Fourty Five Million since Roe v Wade. )Fiscal restraint (oops)/ Pork. Smaller Government. No new gun control (ideally repeal of some laws there). No "gay marriage". There is room for compatible viewpoints on many of these issues in the 'big' tent, issues which individually or in aggregate will bring conservatives back to the party, and which I believe 'moderates' will be able to embrace as well.
For those of you who live in NYC, I'll grant things are different, but to some of us who live out here, it looks like an apocalyptic vision from another planet. To each their own.
I do think we can find enough basic issues which we can all agree on, as Conservatives, and a candidate who will reflect that aggregate belief and be able to communicate that.
Keep in mind that Rudy as Liberal in NYC will get one media response from the MSM, Rudy against Hillary will get an entirely different one, and that will not be pretty.
His most articulate turns of phrase will be voice-overed or just end up on the cutting room floor. Any gaffes will be played ad nauseum, and the MSM will do all in its power to alienate the Base from Rudy so Hillary can get in. Bank on it.
One Rockefeller Center et. al. will no longer view Rudy as one of their own, but the enemy.
We need someone who has far fewer skeletons in the closet, and a far more compatible track record. It will be an uphill battle either way, but far steeper, slipperier, and nastier if our POTUS candidate cannot pass scrutiny, and the MSM, once hostile (and they will be), will shred Rudy nightly.
My quote was sourced to Newsday, not Newsmax.
If the GOP feilds a pack of liberal RINO's, they will LOSE.
BUMP
"Hillary's Secret War" by Richard Poe is an excellent place to start. It details how she would like to silence sites like FR.
He also has a new book out called, "The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party." I haven't read that yet, but another Freeper told me it is excellent, as well.
He "may" be a liberal on things that we don't want him messing with anyway because of States Rights. What he is that we want in a President is tough on crime, tough on the war and tough on the borders and a fiscal conservative.
Exactly! I remember when Rudy reached out to the people of Oklahoma City when the terrorist bombed the Murrah Building. This State will always be grateful to Rudy and in return when 9/ll happened, we reached out to NYC and to Rudy. Oklahomans for the most part will put national security above any other issue in this time of war.
Sounds like a train wreck!
Love your screen name!
Funny, isn't it?
Dear areafiftyone,
"THAT WAS DEBUNKED!"
No, it wasn't.
At the best, he can claim to be "personally opposed, but categorically in favor of abortion rights in law, up to and including paying for his own daughter's abortion, if she really wanted to have one."
That doesn't really get him in the clear on the issue of abortion.
However he may personally feel about murdering unborn babies, he's a pro-abort. He believes so strongly in a RIGHT to procure the murder of one's unborn baby, that he'd pay for his own daughter to get one.
sitetest
Just keep pushing your RINO's in an attempt to get Hillary elected. We understand what you are trying to do.
His personal life has nothing to do with WOT and things that are of earth shattering importance in this day and time. He has the ba!!s to stand up to Islamists and that buys him a lot of brownie points.
What I wanted to do with the post is to get people to think so you have made my day!
You don't have to scream.
The verity of that statement depends where on the political spectrum you are. From my viewpoint their views on personal freedom and limited government aren't all that different.
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