[Tribemike]

Wow, I didn't know Rudy was this extreme...

I had the idea he was teachable on these things...but apparently, he's left of even extremists in the other party on social issues....

I'll let him be Attorney General, that's all

[Caipirabob]

Rudy has a good future in the party as a New York Senator.

Not as President.

[Jim Noble]

The next President will be Rudy, or it will be Hillary.

The sooner you choose, the easier the next two years will be on you.

[Dahoser]

I love Rudy. I wish he had run for governor here instead of holding out for President. He'd be a great governor. (I think Faso would be good, too, but in the People's Republic of New York, only the easily recognizable seem to get elected.)

The last thing we need is more social liberalism in the Republican Party, and Rudy is very much a social liberal. With the administration careening toward making the next two years be the fifth and sixth years of Bush the Elder's administration, the last thing we need is for the party to follow them over the cliff.

[BunnySlippers]

Go Rudy Go!!!!

[hnj_00]

all of the sanctimonious republicans standing on principals will watch as hillary goes back to the white house....

Rudy will be a very effective executive...a decision maker that will be very good on foreign policy and tough on domestic crime...he will nominate good judges for Scotus not a meirs and therefore abortion will not be altered by Scotus regardless of his views.... get over it...it will be Rudy or the paips....

run Rudy run!!!!...kick the piaps ass!!!!!!

[.30Carbine]

I've always admired the writing and information-gathering gifts of Terence P. Jeffrey (Human Events is my all-time favorite newspaper, though out of my price range currently). I could just kiss him for this article and this headline! (: Thank you for posting it here.

[JockoManning]

Snip:

But here it is easy to disagree with Rudy and his admirers. He has no chance of winning the Republican nomination, and, even if he did, he would not make a good president. His views on core cultural issues are too radical.

Giuliani is not just pro-abortion, he is pro-partial-birth abortion. He has not flinched from defending the legality of the gruesome practice that the late Democratic Sen. Patrick Moynihan of New York described “as close to infanticide.”

“I am pro-choice. I’m pro-gay rights,” Giuliani said in 1999, when he was contemplating a Senate campaign. When a reporter asked if he at least favored a ban on partial-birth abortion, Giuliani said, “No, I have not supported that, and I don’t see my position on that changing.”

Giuliani’s pro-gay rights position is so extreme, he advocated stripping away the special legal status of traditional marriage. In 1998, he pushed a municipal ordinance that wiped out all distinctions between married and unmarried couples in New York City law, regardless of their gender.

End snip

[TankerKC]

Rudy sure is taking the heat these days...

[JockoManning]

Ping.

See post # 13.

jm

[savedbygrace]

What happened with the cancer or whatever it was that caused him to drop out of the Senate race a few years ago?

[finnigan2]

Rudy might have been against urinating on the streets of New York, but he's the only Republican capable of convincing voters to urinate all over Hitlery's ambition to be President in 2008. The warm thought of that alone is enough to convince me to support his candidacy.

[Cowboy Bob]

My fear is that as soon as Rudy Giuliani discovers that he'll be running against Hillary, he'll withdraw and make Rick Lazio rund for President.

[Just mythoughts]

Didn't Rudy vote for and support the Clintons? What is the difference in them?

Hillry has the votes to demonstrate she is pro National Security and she even voted for that House Border Fence Bill. Even though when it was first passed she claimed the Republicans in the House would make Jesus illegal if they could.

[GBA]

Rudy was a great Mayor for NYC and he'd be a good governor for the state, but there's no way I'd vote for him as president. He's a pro-abortion and anti-second amendment former democrat.

Nothing wrong with the "former democrat" part. One of the greatest statesmen of our times, Ronald Reagan, was a former democrat; but President Reagan loved life for all and believed in the individual citizen's right to defend themselves against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Sorry, Rudy. Thanks for being such a strong leader during 9/11 and for turning NYC around when you were mayor, but you don't pass the Presidential litmus test.

[zerosix]

“I am pro-choice. I’m pro-gay rights,” Giuliani said in 1999, when he was contemplating a Senate campaign. When a reporter asked if he at least favored a ban on partial-birth abortion, Giuliani said, “No, I have not supported that, and I don’t see my position on that changing.”

When people choose to openly sin (as Rudy was clearly doing with his "newest love" and "constant companion" they have no problem with accepting all kinds of sin. In fact, Rudy, though he stood "tough" after 9/11 had rarely lived the moral life that many Americans espouse.

[Alberta's Child]

Giuliani understood the link between allowing people to urinate on the streets with impunity and New York City’s overall decline. Outside New York, on the Republican campaign trail, he is sure to meet many voters who understand that his positions on abortion and marriage do to our national culture exactly what the street people and pub crawlers did to New York.

Absolutely right on target. Bye-bye, Rudy.

[redgolum]

Yet Rudy is being help up as the last hope to beat Hillary.

Interesting times.

[Melas]

Nonsense. I have every confidence that Rudy will be the next President of the United States of America. I was behind Rudy before it was cool.

[JockoManning]

BTTT