Posted on 01/31/2007 5:38:15 AM PST by areafiftyone
Nussle on Giuliani [Rich Lowry]
Here’s a pro-Giuliani bit from Jim Nussle that I pass along for what it’s worth:
Dear Rich, I wanted to share with conservatives why I'm supporting Mayor Giuliani. As a proud and consistent conservative Republican, I want our Party and our ideas to have a voice. Even more importantly, I want our Party and our ideas to achieve meaningful results.
“Perfect” has become the enemy of the “good”, and we saw that borne out during this past November’s elections. I am hopeful that our Party will avoid needless debates over a non-existent perfect candidate.
It is true that Mayor Giuliani and I don’t agree on every issue. My support for a person who doesn’t see eye to eye with me on all issues doesn’t mean that I am turning my back on those beliefs. But our country is at a crossroads and we cannot forsake progress for perfection.
I have chosen to support Mayor Giuliani because I believe we need to embrace the ideals and the values that unite us. It is the only way we can successfully move forward as both a Party and a country.
Rudy Giuliani is the results Republican our country needs. Mayor Giuliani took office facing difficult challenges. New York City was littered with crime, corruption and decay. The city’s murder rate was so high that an uncommon day was one with only a few murders.
The Mayor led a team that reduced crime and reformed welfare. He cut taxes 23 times while actually reducing the size of the City bureaucracy. The Mayor transformed a historic deficit into a multi-billion dollar surplus with a balanced budget. New York City became a safe place for families and small businesses to invest in their future. In Rudy Giuliani, New Yorkers had a leader. One they could believe in.
All of this he did before the tragedy of September 11, 2001. That day the rest of the world witnessed Mayor Giuliani’s steady and principled leadership firsthand.
Today, America needs to make progress in so many difficult areas, and on so many fronts that while addressing challenges with philosophical absolutes makes for good rhetoric, it oftentimes achieves little by way of results.
After over 20 years in public service, I am still confident that free enterprise, living the American Dream and putting the protection of our nation first are the right ideals for the direction of this country.
Rudy Giuliani has consistently governed under these ideals, turning rhetoric into results, which is why I am confident President Rudy Giuliani will be best for our country come November 2008.
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I'm putting that one on my home page.
LOL!
Got that from Cafe Press! They have lots of them!
Sizzling with eggs over easy. SPAM is god give to man, except when SPIFF does it!
I could be satisfied if Rudy said that he would not push an agenda on these issues. As we have seen in the abortion debate, there is a limit to how much a President can do on some social issues. Reagan and George W. despite their opposition to abortion could really do nothing about it.
If Rudy renounces his views, he would look like a rank opportunist.
What I really want Rudy to emphasize is his commitment to appoint strict constitutionalists to the courts. That is where a difference can be made on social issues. At least, such people could stop the practice of forcing social issues down our throat by judicial fiat and put the issues back into the political arena.
I would rather have Guiliani for awhle than I would to lose a massacre which could happen if one of the more "pure" conservatives ran. The conservative movement needs to regroup. The fact that no strong conservative candidate with a realistic chance of winning has emerged, tells us that we have work to do. Consider Rudy a place-holder until we can get our act together.
McManiac make me sick, but I would have to go with him over Hillary. It would be scary thou!
McManiac make me sick, but I would have to go with him over Hillary. It would be scary thou!
lol...Spammy gives it a bad name.
This is hugh and series! LOL!
Gee, its not 'cause, properly scrutinized, her record stinks?
Another way of saying "lowest common denominator." That's not a good plan for the country.
I'm not going to badmouth Giuliani as a person or even as a mayor. Given where he's situated, he's done some very good things. But now we're talking about the country as a whole. The perfect-has-become-the-enemy-of-good argument is total nonsense. Just do the math. We're not talking about a man who is 95% conservative. We're talking about a man who is maybe two-for-five, at best, on significant conservative issues. Call him a fiscal conservative, fine. Say he's conservative on crime, okay. But trying to call him conservative without those disclaimers is flat-out lying.
"The level of resitance he is getting here is a foretaste of what is to come"
No more like the last gasp of the whiney minions.........
What does Pataki have to do with the quote about Clinton which I put in context?
For the record Giuliani regrets the 1994 Cuomo endorsement. Pataki forgave him. I do too.
There are three main branches of Conservative policy - foreign policy/national defense, economics, and social.
Giuliani has a proven strong conservative track record on the first two. On the social conservative issues he is more in line with Libertarians and the left, but not irremediable. I predict he comes out right on gun control, immigration, partial birth abortion, strict constructionism, and maintains his opposition to gay marriage.
He will never be a pro life or marriage amendment canditate.
Considering how left NYC was and is, he did a remarkable job. We have never really seen what his stands truly are on many of these issues which were not open for discussion in the NYC context.
It's made for interesting reading. (:
bbl
"Wot? I'm not sure just how truly serious he is. He talks the talk, but he also pushed a business associate for the most important anti-terror job without vetting him at all - kinda like congresscritters who put pork into Iraq appropriations bills - they take a serious matter and seek political gain from it."
The fact that Bernard Kerik had dirt in his closet made him not confirmable but did not effect his excellent creds for anti-terror chief.
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