Posted on 01/26/2007 12:29:42 PM PST by Ol' Sparky
WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani came out yesterday against President Bush's call for a ban on gay marriage.
The former mayor, who Vice President Cheney joked the other night is after his job, vigorously defended the President on his post-9/11 leadership but made clear he disagrees with Bush's proposal to rewrite the Constitution to outlaw gays and lesbians from tying the knot.
"I don't think it's ripe for decision at this point," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"I certainly wouldn't support [a ban] at this time," added Giuliani, who lived with a gay Manhattan couple when he moved out of Gracie Mansion during his nasty divorce.
Giuliani took his gay rights stance just as speculation hits a fever pitch that he's in line to replace Cheney on Bush's ticket.
Cheney and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton fueled the vice presidential talk at Saturday night's Gridiron Dinner in Washington.
To a mock question from the audience asking Cheney to step aside for someone with "new energy and vitality," the veep turned to Giuliani and zinged: "You need to do a better job of disguising your handwriting."
Asked yesterday whether he would run with Bush if Cheney stepped aside, the mayor-turned-businessman mimicked Marlon Brando in "The Godfather": "An offer I couldn't refuse, right?" But he didn't say no.
Giuliani conceded he's "out of sync" with his party's conservative base, but likened himself to other moderate GOP stars like Gov. Pataki and Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
And while he was cagey on the veep talk, the former mayor said he will run for elected office again, but didn't say which one.
Giuliani is considered a leading GOP hopeful in the 2008 presidential race, though he may decide to challenge Clinton in her 2006 Senate reelection bid.
But for now, Giuliani has been making the rounds burnishing the President's terror-fighting credentials and joining in Republican attempts to portray Kerry as a would-be waffler-in-chief.
He once more defended Bush's use of footage of a flag-draped coffin coming out of Ground Zero in controversial new political ads.
"To leave [Sept. 11] out of a political campaign when you're running for reelection cuts out half your leadership," he said. "I mean, it would make no sense."
But Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who ran against Bush in 2000, disagreed.
"I might not have used the ad of the coffin coming out, or the body coming out of the ruins with a flag on it," he told ABC's "This Week."
Originally published on March 8, 2004
Hell, with ALL of the RINO-loving threads you incessantly post, why are you whining?
I agree with you flashbunny, but the question is...
are they funny - haha, or funny - strange.
It appears to me that they are STRANGE-to-the MAX.
The reason your constantly posting anti-Rudy stuff is flop sweat.
You Rudy Haters are scared.
1.Pro-Life
2.Pro-Gun
3.Anti Illegal Immigration
4.Anti Gay Marriage and SPECIAL Rights
There are more of course, but even without listing any more...
Does the list of issues above LOOK LIKE ONE ISSUE TO YOU?
If it DOES, then you need to improve your math skills.
No, those are all separate bona fide conservative issues.
1. WOT
2. WOT
3. WOT
4. WOT
5. WOT WOT WOT WOT WOT WOT WOT WOT WOT WOT WOT WOT WOT WOT...
You are MORE than welcome to vote for him my friend, but it is inexplicable to me.
I, for one, will NEVER vote for a RINO.
Let's see, Doc:
1.) Gay Rights as Civil Rights.
2.) Civil Unions (and possibly gay marriage - depending on which Rudy).
3.) Abortion.
4.) Public funding of Abortion.
5.) Partial-Birth Abortion.
6.) Second Amendment Rights.
7.) Campaign Finance Reform.
8.) Hate Crimes Legislation.
9.) Public funding of Liberal Social Policies.
10.) Total amnesty for illegal immigrants.
11.) Excessive government borrowing.
and on and on.......All one issue, I guess.
Not a viable candidate
"You Rudy Haters are scared."
Yeah, that the GOP will run a RINO per the wishes of the mainstream media - one that will lose to a democrat because their repugnant positions keep the conservative base at home.
Sell out something else, but not the presidency.
We aren't scared, except to say we'd HATE to see EXTREMELY IMPORTANT Life-Or-Death issues like ABORTION, and Constitutional Life-Or-Death issues like our 2ND AMENDMENT Rights, in the hands of a RINO OR a demonRAT president (one's as bad as the other, no - a RINO is WORSE because he's a TRAITOR and UNTRUSTWORTHY).
There's a simple fix this early in the game...
Select and support, to the hilt, a TRUE CONSERVATIVE who helps us DIFFERENTIATE ourselves from the liberal dems, NOT a VIRTUAL CLONE RINO like giuliani.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLO
Apparently you aren't reading up on what Rudy has accomplished and can accomplish are you? Of course not - that would be too much for your brain to handle. Look at background and you will see he has done more and accomplished more than any one who is running at this point in time!
Now that is completely idiotic statement and you know it but I wouldn't expect anything else coming from you guys!
Actually I'm a Newt Gingrich Fan in case you don't know it. So you don't know a thing. It's you nutty people who get all antsy when someone mentions Newt - right away there are twenty fornicator posts and wife cheater etc.
I think not. I will work diligently for the conservative in the primary, not Rudy or McLame.
People should have realized this was an old article when it talked about Bush replacing Dick Cheney with Rudy as his VP running mate.
I agree. Duncan Hunter looks like the best candidate in the race so far.
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