Posted on 11/14/2006 1:51:18 PM PST by DCBandita
The announcement by McCain, who has put together campaign organizations in many of the states with early nominating contests, was widely expected. The intentions of Giuliani, who has been less active in early organizing, had been less clear.
Giuliani's campaign team said the committee was simply an opening move designed to keep his options open, with a final decision still to come.
"This filing affords him the opportunity to raise money and put together an organization to assist him in making his decision," Giuliani adviser Anthony Carbonetti said.
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Cheers.
Ivan
Did you vote this year?
Really? "I'd rather people live their principles and not try to legislate them at all." So if their principles include an opposition to pedophilia, it shouldn't be legislated?
Why are you a Democrat?
Regarding the body parts, I have one and not the other.
Reasonably pro-gun means that I support background checks and a three-day waiting period.
Trending moderate means that I break with my part on some key issues, most notable among them the subject of immigration policy.
In other words, I think you would find that on MOST subjects I'm either slightly left of center or slightly right of center depending on the issue itself. The party line doesn't affect my own personal beliefs and ideology.
One of the concerns would that if he didn't try to legislate social issues, the other side would and he might be apt to support those initiatives in exchange for some support on one of his issues. Also, judicial appointments cannot be overlooked. Democrats will not appoint moderate judges and so why should we support someone who might.
But we have the problem of judges legislating from the bench on social issues. That's why they've become such poarizing issues. Supreme court justices go to law school at very elite schools that are located in very blue cities like Boston. They ram their social agendas down everyone else's throats, and it is very difficult to counteract their decisions. Roe v Wade was terrible consitutional law, and it short circuited the political process. The Supreme Court made a hot button issue when it forced the most radical abortion law in the world on the whole country rather than follow the tenth amendment and let the states make their own laws. States are quit diffferent from one another. Attempting to force laws on the whole country that could only be democtratically enacted in Boston, New York City, or San Francisico is what created the polarization on social issues that we see today.
"Tolerance" used to mean that "I disagree with your position on 'X' but I defend you right to have that opinion." It seems to me that in 2006, the most INTOLERANT people of all are liberals and moderates who insist that anyone who doesn't agree with them should be silenced (and banned from the public square).
I'm very socially conservative and I'd support Rudy.
Just out of curiosity, did you consider Macaca a member of the 'Religious Right'?
Regards, Ivan
"I think it's mistake to cast a net over all Democrats as "liberal". For example, I am from Virginia - we are a different breed of Democrat (we have to be)."
There is nothing moderate about being a member of the democrat party, why is a democrat troll even starting his own threads on FR?
Hm... Well, "my" party just put a pro-gun Senator in the Capitol. As to their stand on immigration, I can't abide it but that doesn't mean I don't think some semblance of balance (legislative vs. executive) is a bad thing.
I don't have to march in lockstep with them all the time to identify with them, you know.
No, you're not slighty right of center on anything.
Liberals lie, it's what they must do.
Just like sharks have to swim.
My daughter referred to him as "creepy." She didn't even know who he was. She just saw him talking as she walked by the TV.
The only thing in the middle-of-the-road is a yellow streak and roadkill. - Margaret Thatcher
Not a RINO, because he IS a Republican in the Teddy Roosevelt mode (anyone doubting that knows nothing about TR and needs to read a few biographies); he's not a conservative, but yes indeed, I believe a moderate-liberal Republican is preferable to a Democrat of almost any stripe.
I think most people have a great deal of respect for the Mayor. However it is generally held that once his more liberal social positions are known he will be unsuccessful in running for the Republican nomination.
Do you get smaller government vibes from Giuliani ? I don't. Seems vibes are all we can go on with Rudy. He isn't being very generous with his opinions.
Webb will not vote pro-gun. Because he lied to you.
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