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Giuliani Hires Ex-Congressman As Adviser (Jim Nussle)
Washington Post ^ | 1/16/07

Posted on 01/16/2007 6:40:12 AM PST by areafiftyone

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has hired prominent Iowa Republican Jim Nussle to advise him on his possible presidential run.

Nussle, a former congressman and 2006 candidate for governor, will play "an important leadership on behalf of the exploratory committee both in Iowa and nationally," Giuliani said in a statement.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani gestures as he speaks after receiving the Pete DuPont Individual Freedom Award Friday, Jan. 12, 2007 in Wilmington, Del.(AP Photo/Chris Gardner) Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani gestures as he speaks after receiving the Pete DuPont Individual Freedom Award Friday, Jan. 12, 2007 in Wilmington, Del.(AP Photo/Chris Gardner) (Chris Gardner - AP)

Giuliani said Nussle brings valuable skills and a strong political track record in the state where precinct caucuses traditionally launch the presidential nominating season.

Nussle lost the governor's race by roughly 100,000 votes to Democrat Chet Culver. The eight-term congressman announced last week that he was forming a political consulting business.

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1 posted on 01/16/2007 6:40:14 AM PST by areafiftyone
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To: Blackirish; Jameison; Sabramerican; BunnySlippers; tkathy; veronica; Roccus; Jake The Goose; ...

(((((RUDY PING)))))


2 posted on 01/16/2007 6:40:50 AM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: areafiftyone

Go Rudy.


3 posted on 01/16/2007 6:58:27 AM PST by tkathy (Sectarian violence? Or genocidal racists? Which is a better description of islamists?)
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To: areafiftyone

Excellent.


4 posted on 01/16/2007 7:02:41 AM PST by LimberJim (It says "Breakfast Any Time", right? I'll have the pancakes in the Age of Enlightenment.)
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To: areafiftyone

A loser as a political consultant.... hmm...

Oh, well. He's no Jim Leach, thank God. Nussle is a conservative who managed to win re-election consistently as his district went Democratic. He is prolife. On immigration, he is a proponent of tough border control, interior enforcement, stopping asylum abuse, ending chain migration, and eliminating the visa lottery BUT he is a supporter of amnesties.

I'm not positive I'll vote against Rudy. He's been pro-choice, but as much as I normally hate political pragmatism, the stone-cold fact is that NYC would never elect a pro-lifer. In the meantime, he did incalculable good for NYC, miraculously winning conservative victories in a city whose average voter is as liberal as a typical state university professor of Feminist Political Deconstruction.

I'll need to hear him say that he'll appoint constructionist or originalist judges and I'll be satisfied, since the US Supreme Court is where the issue of abortion will be fought for now.


5 posted on 01/16/2007 7:03:16 AM PST by dangus (Pope calls Islam violent; Millions of Moslems demonstrate)
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To: areafiftyone
"So Jim, your saying that if I ditch the pro-choice, anti-gun, cross-dressing image I have a chance?????"


6 posted on 01/16/2007 7:03:54 AM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: dangus
I'll need to hear him say that he'll appoint constructionist or originalist judges and I'll be satisfied, since the US Supreme Court is where the issue of abortion will be fought for now.

A very logical and reasonable point, and one that the unappeasable crowd should understand as they swarm this thread.

7 posted on 01/16/2007 7:06:56 AM PST by Wormwood (Your Friendly Neighborhood Moderate)
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To: Wormwood

Now that Obama has announced he's running we will need someone with star quality to knock him out. Giuliani is just that person.


8 posted on 01/16/2007 7:14:11 AM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: areafiftyone

IMO, Rudy will be the next Arnold; both are RINOs.


9 posted on 01/16/2007 7:38:28 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: areafiftyone

DREAMER!!


10 posted on 01/16/2007 7:47:00 AM PST by Coldwater Creek (The TERRORIST are the ones who won the midterm elections!)
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To: areafiftyone

ROFLOL!


11 posted on 01/16/2007 7:48:02 AM PST by Coldwater Creek (The TERRORIST are the ones who won the midterm elections!)
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To: Vaquero

Hey, he's better looking than Hillary Clinton!


12 posted on 01/16/2007 8:27:10 AM PST by dangus (Pope calls Islam violent; Millions of Moslems demonstrate)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

>> IMO, Rudy will be the next Arnold; both are RINOs. <<

You OBVIOUSLY are NOT a New Yorker.

A RINO is someone who pretends to be a Republican for political gain. Giuliani may (or may not be) considerably to the left of most Republican voters, but he is NOT a RINO.

Giuliani fought hard against the corruption, crime, and institutional Marxism of NYC. His anti-crime policies prevented so many murders (over 2,000 per year), that he directly made a dent in the national murder rate... and indirectly made a huge dent as his policies were copied around the nation.

NYC will always be "gay-friendly," but Giuliani moved NYC governance much more rightward than the nation moved to the right with Bush, Hastert, Lott and McConnell. It just started so much more to the left...

And if it took dressing up as a drag queen to get elected, then so be it! I'd rather one drag queen fighting to protect America than 100 of the weak-wristed, milquetoast conservatives we've been led by for the past several years.


13 posted on 01/16/2007 8:39:47 AM PST by dangus (Pope calls Islam violent; Millions of Moslems demonstrate)
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To: areafiftyone

>> Now that Obama has announced he's running we will need someone with star quality to knock him out. <<

Don't fear Barrack Hussein Obama. He's the Colin Powell of the Democrats in all ways, except for Powell's moderateness. [moderacy? modernity? (No, that means something else)... moderability?]


14 posted on 01/16/2007 8:41:50 AM PST by dangus (Pope calls Islam violent; Millions of Moslems demonstrate)
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To: Vaquero

Hey, I know who I'd vote for (if I were forced to choose between the two). (You gotta admit... Rudy looks better in drag than Hillary does.)

By the way, it's awfully bipartisan of you to borrow from MyDD for your sources.

15 posted on 01/16/2007 8:46:00 AM PST by dangus (Pope calls Islam violent; Millions of Moslems demonstrate)
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To: dangus

I get my pix from Google Images...where they get it is not my business.

if it came down to the 2 I would have to really hold my nose hard and vote for Rudy, but I dont plan on him making it through the primaries ......


16 posted on 01/16/2007 9:00:50 AM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero

Relax, I'm just tweaking you...

I agree with you about voting for Rudy for general but not primary elections. I just don't think it helps to aid the Democrats in searing mental images of the man who may end up being the next nominee... sorta like the 11th commandment.


17 posted on 01/16/2007 9:05:45 AM PST by dangus (Pope calls Islam violent; Millions of Moslems demonstrate)
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To: Vaquero

PS I LIKE Rudy.....he would make a great Mayor of NYC again if the term limitaion laws would work that way....

....and I would like him as US Senator from NY as he would be head and shoulders above anything we have now....I dont want him as president due to 2nd amendment issues and neither do I want him as Governor of NY.

AS Governor, he would have an easy time getting his anti-gun agenda through in NY as he would have both the Assembly(dem) and Senate(repub) of NY backing him on this issue. With Spitzer one can only hope there is gridlock generated between the Governor and the state Senate (Ala Mario "the S'facheme" Cuomo).


18 posted on 01/16/2007 9:12:06 AM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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