Posted on 01/28/2007 8:24:22 AM PST by Spiff
Giuliani touts experience, but personal life may be an issue
BY CRAIG GORDON
Newsday Washington Bureau
January 28, 2007
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Rudolph Giuliani argued yesterday that his record of cutting taxes, improving security and guiding New York through 9/11 are proof that he could do the same as president - offering his strongest signal yet that he's serious about a White House bid.
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Giuliani is trying to bat down questions from top Republicans about whether his White House ambitions are a popularity-fueled dalliance or something more serious. His speech laid out a point-by-point rationale for his possible candidacy, seeking to portray himself as a tested leader for dangerous times in the mold of Ronald Reagan.
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He also appeared intent on quieting questions about his marital history by giving wife Judith Nathan an unusually high-profile role here. She barely left his side in public, and he called her a "partner" whom he leaned on for everything from getting through 9/11 and prostate cancer to understanding the science behind possible anthrax attacks.
Giuliani didn't mention that when Nathan helped him after his cancer diagnosis in spring 2000, he was, in fact, still married to Donna Hanover, and that the revelation of his illness came amid the messy public breakup of his second marriage.
In the end, Giuliani's two-day visit here encapsulated the promise and challenge of his possible candidacy.
On one hand, his name recognition and tough-guy image in New York, before and after 9/11, helped him draw large and enthusiastic crowds on this visit. But even some who were eager to see him were blunt in saying his personal history and liberal social stances could prove a serious, perhaps insurmountable obstacle to winning their votes.
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GOOD ... NIGHT ... MISS ... MAPES.
First of all, I don't know what a "purist" Christian is. And, I really don't care to know. It's some kind of new terminology, coined no doubt by someone I have little in common with.
Secondly, a baby is quite capable of being delivered to fresh air, surviving and thriving much earlier than the ninth month.
When an innocent and defenseless human life is killed at the hands of another human, what else can it be called?
But, murder.
You deserve a prize for that tag line.
Instead of getting 90% of the pie, or even a third of a pie, they'll get 0% of the pie and think they've done a good thing for the country. As long as we have our guns, they will be afraid of the citizens!
It's madness, but it's getting routine.
I disagree. The reason we lose elections is because of the RINOS in the GOP who vote as liberals. Actually, they are liberals and should just join the Democrat party so they wouldn't have to be hypocrites again. I'm tired of voting for "the lessor of two evils." My vote is no longer for sale. When we elect RINOS, we get exactly what we voted for, and since Rudy and McCain are both anti gun, they will NEVER get my vote!
As long as we have our guns, they will be afraid of the citizens!I'm not sure I disagree with that statement, but it wasn't something I said.
Oh. OK. Sometimes I don't pick up on subtleties of sarcasm.
Peace to you Brother/Sister.
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Giuliani | Clinton | GOP Platform |
| Abortion on Demand | Supports | Supports | Opposes |
| Partial Birth Abortion | Supports | Supports | Opposes |
| Roe v. Wade | Supports | Supports | Opposes |
| Taxpayer Funded Abortions | Supports | Supports | Opposes |
| Embryonic Stem Cell Research | Supports | Supports | Opposes |
| Gay Marriage | Supports | Supports | Opposes |
| Gay Civil Unions | Supports | Supports | Opposes |
| Openly Gay Military | Supports | Supports | Opposes |
| Defense of Marriage Act | Opposes | Opposes | Supports |
| Amnesty for Illegal Aliens | Supports | Supports | Opposes |
| Special Path to Citizenship for Illegal Aliens |
Supports | Supports | Opposes |
| Tough Penalties for Employers of Illegal Aliens |
Opposes | Opposes | Supports |
| Sanctuary Cities/ Ignoring Immigration Law |
Supports | Supports | Opposes |
| Protecting 2nd Amendment | Opposes | Opposes | Supports |
| Confiscating Guns | Supports | Supports | Opposes |
| 'Assault' Weapons Ban | Supports | Supports | |
| Frivolous Lawsuits Against Gun Makers |
Supports Filed One Himself |
Supports | Opposes |
| Gun Registration/Licenses | Supports | Supports | Opposes |
| War in Afghanistan | Supports | Supports Voted for it |
Supports |
| War in Iraq | Supports | ||
As long as we have our guns, they will be afraid of the citizens!
I'm not sure I disagree with that statement, but it wasn't something I said.
The reason I added it is because it was on the post of mine that you originally posted to. McCain and Rudy are both VERY anti gun. THAT, in itself, is reason enough not to vote for them.
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The reason we lose elections is because of the RINOS in the GOP who vote as liberals.
The reason we lose elections is because of the RINOS in the GOP who vote as liberals.
The reason we lose elections is because of the RINOS in the GOP who vote as liberals.
The reason we lose elections is because of the RINOS in the GOP who vote as liberals.
(Truth deserves repeating!)
That's not the president's only job. We can have a GOP president who'll be good on national security without selling out our culture to the barbarians. If our culture goes down the tubes to the homo-pervs and abortion industry (even more than it already has), that's a defeat as much losing our culture to the Muslims.
Well said!
Who is this "nobody" who doesn't care? We'll find out if his history of flagrant adultery doesn't matter to GOP primary voters. I wouldn't be surprised if it does matter to enough of them that Rudy will still be working in the security business (along with his "partner" Kerik) come 2009.
Liz, your judgment of political and cultural leaders is spot-on. You don't weigh in much (at least I don't see you posting all that much), but when you do, you're incisive and knowing.
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God.We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthen us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us, then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
- Abraham Lincoln, Father of the Republican Party
You're not posting the full chart. You may want to copy it again. It's messing up at the bottom and cutting off some of the chart.
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