he'd put Cuomo on the SCOTUS you say.
here's a transcript of Ed Koch speaking about Rudy, note the section I pulled out about a dispute in NY over a judge's ruling.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/forum/Koch.html
"NEW YORK SUPREME COURT JUDGE HELEN FREEDMAN WAS RECENTLY THE SUBJECT OF GIULIANI'S DEMEANING LANGUAGE IN HIS EFFORT TO TERRORIZE HER AFTER SHE RULED IN FAVOR OF THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY'S HOMELESS FAMILY RIGHTS PROJECT, LED BY COORDINATING ATTORNEY STEVEN BANKS, IN THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY'S ONGOING CASE AGAINST THE CITY.
GIULIANI, ACCORDING TO THE POST, SAID FREEDMAN HAS BEEN ISSUING "IRRATIONAL ORDERS" TO MAYORS FOR 13 YEARS. "IT'S ABOUT TIME SHE STEP ASIDE," HE SAID. CONTINUING, "ANY JUDGE THAT HOLDS A CASE FOR A DECADE OR MORE SHOULD GET OFF THE CASE BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IS THEY BECOME THE PURVEYORS OF POLICY RATHER THAN DECIDERS OF CASES THAT COME BEFORE THEM." HE VICIOUSLY AND PERSONALLY ATTACKED FREEDMAN -- AND SAID, "SHE ISN'T RULING ON THE LAW, SHE'S RULING ON HER OWN PERSONAL IDEOLOGY." IF THAT WERE S0, SHE WILL BE REVERSED ON APPEAL"
does that sounds like a person who supports liberal judicial activism on the bench?
Name one, just onemind you, conservative republican that Rudy put on the bench. And forget the Committee gambit, it doesn't work. Go read the Mayors executive order on how Committee members.
For those who support Rudy I say all well and good. Hell, if his positions were slightly less radical socially, I would support him. I understand he has appeal.
But don't try to tell me that a man that supported Mario Cuomo for Governor is a conservative. Rudy is a Rockefeller Republican with a law and order streak that served New York City well.
So simply come out and say that you support Rudy as a socially liberal, fiscal conservative (if you believe he is one) who has supported extreme leftists for Chief Executive positions.
I can live with that kind of honesty, it's the horse manure about Rudy being a strict constructionist and conservative Republican that frosts my derrierre.