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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How about J.C. Watts?
Exactly and what everyone should keep in mind!
The Star? The Globe? LOL
thou shalt defeat the hildebeast, whatever it takes.
George W Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter were on no one's list two years before their first Presidential elections either.
Presidents come from the Governor pool. Senators don't win the Presidency. The last Senator to win was JFK. McCain has also pissed too many conservatives to ever win the Republican primary. Rudy is too much of a social liberal to win the Republican primary. That leaves Romney. His Mormon faith may be too much to overcome. I hope not, I like the guy. But I see Governors as filling the GOP bench.
Time will tell.
I tend to agree but Bush has been faithful to Laura his entire life and Reagan was divorced. I'd take Reagan over Bush any day of the week.
I've voted in every election and will always do so.
"Briandead morons."
You can't even spell "brain"......and you're calling me a moron? Go back to your bong hits and Beatles albums, you pathetic granola eating little hippie.
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
"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
But three days later, Newsmax ran a story clarifying the story at your link.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/18/95048.shtml
That's not a post; it's a political ad. Please refrain from doing this 60 days before the next election.
The issues which are claimed to be so important to conservatives have produced very few victories for the GOP other than local ones and generally are most effectively used as tools for the enemy to attack it and paint it as too "extreme" for the majority.
While one on one face to face discussions can show most people that those who are "extremist" really are not it takes a long time to make that clear. And we must overcome 15-30 second distortions which reach thousands at a time.
But some people never learn and don't want to. Your Oklahoma example is both instructive and precautionary. I wondered what happened to Istook.
The issues which are claimed to be so important to conservatives have produced very few victories for the GOP other than local ones and generally are most effectively used as tools for the enemy to attack it and paint it as too "extreme" for the majority.
While one on one face to face discussions can show most people that those who are "extremist" really are not it takes a long time to make that clear. And we must overcome 15-30 second distortions which reach thousands at a time.
But some people never learn and don't want to. Your Oklahoma example is both instructive and precautionary. I wondered what happened to Istook.
Hogwash. You moderates have killed the party.
GIULIANI: Which would be that I would help her with taking care of the baby. But if the ultimate choice of the woman - my daughter or any other woman - would be that in this particular circumstance [if she had] to have an abortion, I'd support that. I'd give my daughter the money for it.
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He'd still give her the money to kill her baby. He'd just suggest she not do it. Great! That makes it OK.
I agree! I also like Steele and am very disappointed he lost.
Rudy is a leader. He is also smart (most of the time). He knows that he would need to move to the right to be president.
What you pointed out about Rudy speaks about his leadership qualities.
Dear Dark Skies,
The clarification is nearly meaningless.
All that it says is that Mr. Giuliani would try to persuade his daughter from procuring the murder of her baby before giving her the money to go do the deed.
The fact remains: If he had a daughter who really wanted to have an abortion, he'd pay for it himself.
Disgusting.
sitetest
I'm no fan of Mitt Romney, but at least he does not have baggage, so far as I know. He appears to be a clean cut, clean living Mormon, a plus in the view of this evangelical Christian, theological differences aside. However, his record as governor of Massachusetts was a liberal one, especially on issues as homosexual rights and abortion, and his father, George Romney, was the epitome of a Rockefeller Republican in the 1960s. I don't believe his conversion to conservatism is sincere, as it coincided with his ambition for national office.
This isn't an Obama fantasy. I offer this: other people have written that a Governorship is the best way to obtain the Presidency. Mike Steele was an elected Lt. Governor, so he has won before.
Who would you present for candidates for VP?
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