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He's Ready If You Are (Rudy Giuliani)
American Spectator ^ | Feb 8, 2007 | R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.,

Posted on 02/08/2007 11:30:41 AM PST by PhiKapMom

Rudy Giuliani will prevent a conservative crack-up.

Today, after very little effort, Giuliani is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. Dick Morris is predicting a Giuliani vs. Clinton race in 2008. Yet some conservatives are dubious of the man who cleaned up New York, returned it to a vigor unimaginable from the 1960s through the 1980s, and then led New York and the country heroically through 9/11. Well, one knows a politician by the company he keeps, and Giuliani has around him the financial people who created the libertarian-conservative Manhattan Institute. He relied heavily on the Institute's policies while governing New York. He will rely on libertarian-conservative policy makers in his race for the White House and once there.

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To: dervish

We used to live in CT and my husband and I stopped going to NYC in the 80's; we used to go to most Yankee home games and a lot of plays but the city just got too unsafe to visit. That all changed after Rudy.

If he can make it there, he can make it anywhere!


102 posted on 02/08/2007 12:43:11 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: GeorgefromGeorgia

Thank you much!


103 posted on 02/08/2007 12:43:36 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Broken Glass Republican -- Rudy 08 -- Take back the House and Senate in 2008)
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To: areafiftyone

You've probably gotten some freepmails too, and I wish I could share mine because some of the comments are priceless.

But we'll just wait patiently for these closet Rudy fans to join us :-)


104 posted on 02/08/2007 12:43:58 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: airborne

Smart man! :)


105 posted on 02/08/2007 12:44:10 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Broken Glass Republican -- Rudy 08 -- Take back the House and Senate in 2008)
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To: LongsforReagan; areafiftyone

You got it!


106 posted on 02/08/2007 12:45:28 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Broken Glass Republican -- Rudy 08 -- Take back the House and Senate in 2008)
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To: NeoCaveman

That would be AWESOME if she ran -- would love to Levin sent packing!


107 posted on 02/08/2007 12:46:39 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Broken Glass Republican -- Rudy 08 -- Take back the House and Senate in 2008)
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To: PhiKapMom
"He will rely on libertarian-conservative policy makers in his race for the White House"

There's nothing conservative, or libertarian about a gun grabber.

108 posted on 02/08/2007 12:46:47 PM PST by spunkets
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To: Peach

That sounds great to me. :-) I already got a couple from people who are not posting on this thread a few minutes ago! The list is getting so big!


109 posted on 02/08/2007 12:52:13 PM PST by areafiftyone (RUDY GIULIANI 2008 - STRENGTH AND LEADERSHIP)
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To: EarthBound
As of now, Hunter's my choice, but I'm backing the eventual nominee. Contributed to the Keyes campaign in 2000 before voting for W.


110 posted on 02/08/2007 12:55:13 PM PST by pookie18 ([Hillary Rotten] Clinton Happens...as does Dr. Demento Dean, Bela Pelosi & Benedick Durbin!!)
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To: alloysteel
People who are that concerned about Rudy's personal life always have the option of voting for Herself, the Cold and Joyless.

Got that right!

Some people voted for Carter because of his stellar personal life -- worst President ever and continues that way to this day!

111 posted on 02/08/2007 12:55:16 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Broken Glass Republican -- Rudy 08 -- Take back the House and Senate in 2008)
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To: spunkets

Rudy is NOT a gun grabber. He had inner city gangs and violence to deal with . A big difference. Guns are a state's right issue, not a POTUS issue.


112 posted on 02/08/2007 12:56:02 PM PST by tkathy (Sectarian violence? Or genocidal racists? Which is a better description of islamists?)
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To: tkathy
"Rudy is NOT a gun grabber. He had inner city gangs and violence to deal with . A big difference."

He's a gun grabber. He took away the right of law abiding NYer's to keep and bear arms. Those folks were not gang members. Rudy left rendered those folks defenseless against those murderous thugs. I have no respect for the man. He sued the gun industry in an attempt to cripple it, and impose an unjustified burden on gun owners.

"Guns are a state's right issue, not a POTUS issue."

Yeah, right. I musta forgot.

113 posted on 02/08/2007 1:04:54 PM PST by spunkets
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To: backtothestreets

I'm sure Jane Wyman is with you.


115 posted on 02/08/2007 1:10:26 PM PST by rwilson99 (Al Gore causes Global Cooling.)
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To: teenyelliott
And I do think Rudy could grab far more moderates than any other candidate.

I'm really not sure how much is there for the taking. The further left you go, the greater the antiwar sentiment gets. I'm not sure how someone can foresake a large swath of the right wing of the GOP by being pro-choice, pro-gun-control, pro-gay and pro-amnesty, but still pick up the difference running leftward on a pro-war platform.

It makes a LOT more sense to stay closer to home, hold the party together and draw in pro-war, pro-life and pro-gun Reagan Dems. Rudy, IMO, is NOT the guy to do that.

116 posted on 02/08/2007 1:15:38 PM PST by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08)
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To: PhiKapMom

After seeing that 1,000+ post thread that Jim Robinson hosted yesterday regarding Rudy Giuliani's appearance on Hannity & Colmes the other night and his statements on gun control, I can't envision too many scenarios in which Giuliani wins in 2008.


118 posted on 02/08/2007 1:20:55 PM PST by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: Peach

I'm no closet Rudy fan. I'm right out in front and proud of it. Let's win this time, and we can do it with a candidate who is personable and likeable to run against Medusa over there.


119 posted on 02/08/2007 1:23:42 PM PST by twonie (Just because there are fewer of us don't mean we are wrong.)
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To: Cmdr JJ Adams
What you say makes some sense, perhaps he believes he can get more of the center right then you think he can, not saying he will but maybe his team thinks so.

From the near-utter disdain Rudy supporters have shown on FR towards core conservative positions such as abortion, guns and amnesty, along with offhanded comments that people concerned about such aren't needed for a Rudy victory, I can only surmise that they either think they can win without a large chunk of the base, or figure the base will put some ice on it and vote for Rudy if he's the nominee.

Neither seems to be a good approach for victory in November. And IMO running leftward will put Rudy into rather barren antiwar ground. I don't see any GOP gold in them thar hills. Just a lot of hostiles.

Hunter needs to get more visible real soon.

It's still very early. Dean was ahead of Kerry 40-12 in New Hampshire a month before the primary. A lot can happen in 11 months. The polls right now are just name recognition, but organization and drive means a lot now, too. And the Internet can be something of an equalizer as well.

120 posted on 02/08/2007 1:25:02 PM PST by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08)
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