Rudy’s a No-Go

nationalreview.com ^ | February 6, 2007 | Terence P. Jeffrey

[Hambone02]

“Murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes,” Rudy Giuliani once said. “But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other.”

Good point, Rudy.

Now, what about a climate — not to mention a Republican presidential candidate — that not only tolerates, but allows unelected judges to legalize the practice of delivering a child until only its head remains within its mothers womb so the child can be killed by sucking out its brains?

What about a climate where same-sex couples are given the same legal status as married couples, whether the resulting arrangements are candidly called “same-sex marriages,” or are semantically papered-over with terms such as “civil unions” or “domestic partnerships”?

[TAdams8591]

Excellent article! Thank you for the post. Guilianni is a Liberal who I believe neither deserves, or will get, the Republican nomination for the presidency. If by some set of odd cirumstances he does get the nod, Republicans should be prepared to lose.

[swatter]

Quotes Yoda: "Eat their young do they? Hmmm, not a political party I want to be involved in. May the Force get with them!!"

[Hambone02]

I will vote for him if he makes it past the primaries. Then, and only then, it will be to keep out Hitlery.

[Jim Noble]

No candidate who opposes ESC research can get more than 35% of the vote in a national election.

That's how it is.

Deal with it.

[American Quilter]

Hey, familyop! Good to see you.

I'm becoming very interested in Duncan Hunter. He appears to be the most conservative candidate running.

[Hambone02]

If you think for a second that Rudy will appoint judges that will be anti-abortion, don't pass that drink to me. He says he would appoint Thomas/Scalia type judges. That doesn't make any sense whatsoever, considering he supports everything they don't. And abortion isn't the only issue he is liberal on. There is a very long list.

[TAdams8591]

I really think its wiser to wait if and until Guilianni is nominated by Republicans as their presidential candidate (which I say isn't going to happen), before we get into this argument yet again.

[Hambone02]

I missed the memo. Thank you for the enlightenment! : )

[Hambone02]

I thought it was good, too. Apparently I reposted though. Hopefully they will have mercy on me. ;)

[familyop]

"That is exactly the ticket I'm looking for!!! Thank you. I was beginning to think I was an endangered species in FR."

You're very welcome and not even close to being an endangered species. Have another look at the FR Poll. Giuliani fans are rather noisy, verbose and shrill (like others we know of). They even have the big media propagandizing hard and skewing surveys for them with respondent hens who have time to answer surveys and lie about their party affiliations (as feminists have pretended to be Republicans for over 150 years to sway our Republican Party). But they're not very numerous.

Free Republic Opinion Poll: If the short list for Republican Nominee were narrowed down to the following, which one would you favor?

Composite Opinion
Newt Gingrich	27.8%		2,165
Duncan Hunter	21.6%		1,679
Rudy Giuliani	15.5%		1,206
Tom Tancredo	11.7%		911
Mitt Romney	7.9%		612
Undecided/pass	6.8%		527
Ron Paul	6.3%		493
John McCain	2.3%		181
	99.9%		7,774
Member Opinion
Duncan Hunter	26.2%		865
Newt Gingrich	26.0%		861
Rudy Giuliani	14.1%		465
Tom Tancredo	10.4%		345
Undecided/pass	8.4%		278
Mitt Romney	7.9%		262
Ron Paul	5.4%		180
John McCain	1.5%		50
	99.9%		3,306
Non-Member Opinion
Newt Gingrich	29.2%		1,304
Duncan Hunter	18.2%		814
Rudy Giuliani	16.6%		741
Tom Tancredo	12.7%		566
Mitt Romney	7.8%		350
Ron Paul	7.0%		313
Undecided/pass	5.6%		249
John McCain	2.9%		131
	100.0%		4,468

[Hambone02]

GINGRICH/HUNTER!!

[RockinRight]

My money's on Newt.

[RockinRight]

Now THERE'S something I could go for!

[familyop]

"Hey, familyop! Good to see you.

I'm becoming very interested in Duncan Hunter. He appears to be the most conservative candidate running."

Hi! It's good to see your comments, and I hope that all is going well for you. IMO, we can probably see that Duncan will become more prominent soon enough. Most people have short attention spans, and there's plenty of time before the Election.

[Blackirish]

On Fox Roundtable last nite....

BARNES: The truth is, I think he has an excellent chance of winning the nomination. I wouldn't make him the frontrunner right now, I think the McCain still is. But people like him. There's a reason why his polls have stood up so well, it's not because voters are stupid and don't know about his social liberalism, which is there. But he's not running on it. He's running on these other things and he's not trying to stick his views on abortion and gay civil unions and so on down the throats of conservative voters who don't want that.

He's running on low taxes and what he did in New York. I think there are two striking things about Rudy -- Rudy Giuliani that no other candidate can match -- one, it's the whole 9/11 thing, where he was in a crisis and we saw how he performed. He performed extremely well. And secondly, it's New York City when he was mayor. You know, you can go to New York City and feel and see the difference that he made in that city as mayor. And I don't think you can say that about any mayor in any other city in the country.

HUME: And maybe not about many governors.

[Patrick1]

I'm not planning on voting for Rudy in the primary. But if he is the nominee I will certainly not vote for some fool third party. Suicide is not an option.

[RockinRight]

I'm with you too.

Rudy at the very least would be easier on my wallet, and tougher on terrorists than Hillary.

[My2Cents]

This has already been posted something like three times.

[Sans-Culotte]

If the GOP thinks we have no where else to go, I have news for them: the Constitution Party is making a lot of sense. Google them.

You could just start your own party and vote for yourself. It'll make the same impact as a Consitution Party vote.

[Beagle8U]

"No candidate who opposes ESC research can get more than 35% of the vote in a national election."

President Bush did.

Deal with it.