Posted on 02/03/2007 1:17:10 PM PST by BunnySlippers
By JIM DAVENPORT, Associated Press Writer
He keeps an itinerary that has all the makings of a full-fledged presidential candidate: South Carolina this weekend, New Hampshire the one before.
Which is what Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, says he's leaning toward becoming.
"There's a real good chance," Giuliani told The Associated Press on Saturday, after a 30-minute speech and question-and-answer session with party leaders in South Carolina. In year, they will put on the first-in-the-South GOP presidential primary.
On Giuliani's first visit to New Hampshire last weekend since setting up the committee, he told reporters he'd received a tremendous amount of enthusiasm and support from people.
But he said he had not yet decided whether he could make a "unique contribution" toward strengthening the nation that would justify a run for president.
He has emphasized his steady hand dealing with the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. However, his moderate stances on gun control, abortion, gay rights and other social issues could be liabilities for him in a GOP presidential primary that includes hard-core conservatives as a central voting group.
For instance, in November, South Carolina voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on same-sex unions.
"The fact is I appeal to conservative Christians the way I appeal to everyone else," Giuliani said at a news conference. "I don't think you have separate appeals to people."
Giuliani formed a presidential exploratory committee in November to prepare for a possible bid for the GOP nomination in 2008. It lets him raise money and travel the country, gauging how much support there could be for him.
In his few first weeks, Giuliani took in $1.4 million. He collected donations online, and held a major fundraising event in New York in December.
Financial documents show that by the start of this year Giuliani had about $1 million available, having spent money to set up campaign headquarters, buy equipment and hire workers.
The Republicans' top tier of candidates for 2008 includes Arizona Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback (news, bio, voting record).
Giuliani's visit to Columbia wrapped up a busy week in the state for White House hopefuls. Romney was in the capital on Tuesday and Brownback on Friday.
He took two away from a Freeper.
And the larger point is, if the Dems are in charge of Congress and pass gun control legislation, his history shows he would sign such.
Hunter Hunter he's the man!
If he can't do it no one can!
Gooooooo, Hunter!
A Hitler reference is funny coming from you.
No.
Here's the thing about Rudy. He's not a RINO in the Lincoln Chafee or Chuck Hagel sense. In a difficult environment hostile to change & entrenched in big government liberalism, Rudy took on the status-quo. He cut taxes, cut welfare rolls, limited city government, etc. To do this in NYC, and to show strong leadership after 9/11 (telling Arafat and the Saudi Prince to go to Hell, something that even Bush never did) is why conservatives are willing to give Rudy a pass on his social liberal past.
Do you agree with Rudy Giuliani that the work of the person who said the above is "distinguished"?
Why? Because I shoved you and your friends' support for leftists back in your faces? Hah...
And gunowners will just break out the K-Y jelly, right. Such a scenario would never happen, on a national level. Even Dim candidates are running away from gun control. I'm sorry to hear about FReeper Pharmboy, though.
Are the above the words of someone whose "work was 'distinguished'"?
The railroad platform at Treblinka, where the Nazi holocaust victims were singled out for death, had flower beds that gave the area a "a neat and cheery look." Today, abortion clinics use plants and bold colors to create a "cheerful and anxiety-free environment."
An inmate orchestra provided tangos, jazz and waltzes as the victims were dispatched to the "shower rooms" of Auschwitz. Soothing music is piped into most waiting rooms and "procedure rooms" of abortion clinics.
According to an Auschwitz survivor, 17,280 corpses were disposed of "per twenty four hour shift. And the ovens, with murderous efficiency, functioned day and night." According to a former abortionist, "From eight in the morning until midnight, seven days a week, doctors working in ten operating rooms performed vacuum aspirations on an endless parade of pregnant wombs." (Vacuum aspiration is a type of abortion.)
An Auschwitz gassing technician stated that, "I had no feelings carrying out these things." One abortionist stated that, "I never had any psychological adverse reaction, except for an occasional feeling that one was destroying life."
http://www.lifedynamics.com/DeathCamps/Holocaust7.cfm#TheTop
Margaret Sanger's American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood, published a magazine called Birth Control Review. Here are some quotes from their magazine. The ideas expressed by this group, along with the statements of Margaret Sanger cited above, promote a scheme that seeks to make race or class the determining factor in the use of birth control and abortion. Was Planned Parenthood's founder a racist who taught that some races or classes are superior, while other races or classes are inherently inferior, or was she just an elitist femi-nazi? The quotes here and above reveal the answer.
"Not only is it our task to prevent the multiplication of bad stocks; it is also to preserve the well-endowed stocks."
"… in the interest of social progress or the permanence even of civilization, the intellectual classes should have more children."
"Our most pressing problem is to increase the birth rate from the superior and decrease that from the inferior."
"The Aryan stock today is the most given to birth control and it must see that it does not suffer internationally by the relative ignorance of inferior stocks."
"… it would also lead to racial improvement to sterilize even those feeble-minded who do not necessarily fall in the hereditary group."
"Womanhood shakes off its bondage. It asserts its right to be free. In its freedom, its thoughts turn to the race. Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees. The race is but the amplification of its mother body - the multiplication of flesh habitations - beautified and perfected for souls akin to the mother soul."
http://www.lifedynamics.com/DeathCamps/Holocaust8.cfm#TheTop
Sure, like the 1994 so-called Assault Weapons ban?
Even Dim candidates are running away from gun control.
Oh, they will go back to it in a jiffy if given the chance.
I'm sorry to hear about FReeper Pharmboy, though.
He had permits for handguns in NYC for something like seventeen years until Rudy's administration turned the screws on people for no reason. In other words, even David Dinkins didn't take his guns away, so Rudy is to his left on this particular issue.
Rudy needs to seriously get further right if he wants a unified party if he wins.
"No, I think they, and all Giuliani supporters, should be forced to wear this on their sleeve:
[picture of large GLBT pink triangle]"
--EternalVigilance, 1-29-7
That looks awful...unless you include my entire post...with the /s tag at the end, and perhaps also a little look at the actions on that thread of your liberal friends that it was sarcastically addressed to.
In other words, you're lying and trying to smear me.
Do you know the meaning of this tag:
"/s"
?
The suggestion is too sick to be excused by some tag.
Untrue on both counts.
In what sense is Chuck Hagel a "RINO?"
In a difficult environment hostile to change & entrenched in big government liberalism, Rudy took on the status-quo. He cut taxes, cut welfare rolls, limited city government, etc. To do this in NYC, and to show strong leadership after 9/11 (telling Arafat and the Saudi Prince to go to Hell, something that even Bush never did) is why conservatives are willing to give Rudy a pass on his social liberal past.
1. New York City government was much bigger the day Rudy Giuliani left office than it had been on the day he entered office.
2. Rudy Giuliani adamantly opposed the 1996 Federal welfare reform legislation -- even to the point of filing suit in Federal court to have it overturned. This basically put him -- bizarre though it may seem - to the LEFT of Bill Clinton on this issue.
3. It didn't take any political courage to have Yassir Arafat escorted out of Lincoln Center, and to tell a Saudi prince to shove his $10 million up his @ss when New York City was already set to receive several billion in Federal assistance after 9/11.
Oddly enough, it sounds like Rudy Giuliani has taken some of Sanger's statements to heart.
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