Posted on 02/11/2007 10:27:49 PM PST by FairOpinion
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, still basking in his can-do post-Sept. 11 image, got a rousing welcome yesterday from Republican activists searching for a presidential candidate who can win in California.
No Republican presidential candidate has carried California since the elder George Bush did in 1988, and no one has even run a competitive race in the increasingly Democratic-leaning state since then.
Republicans are hopeful they have prospects in the large 2008 field who can reverse the trend by combining liberal and conservative stands that has proven so successful for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“The popularity of the governor shows that you can take the positions that he holds and win in California,” said Duf Sundheim, outgoing Republican state chairman. “I think Giuliani has the same opportunity.”
As for Giuliani, backers say his record on reducing crime and taxes in New York should give conservatives plenty to like. He was introduced to the convention yesterday by businessman Bill Simon, the 2002 Republican nominee for California governor who once worked under Giuliani in the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York.
Simon said that as mayor, Giuliani cut taxes 23 times and reduced the city's murder rate by 67 percent. “That is a record that as a conservative Republican, I can heartily endorse,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at signonsandiego.com ...
I'd sure like to see the level of discussion raised. But then, I'm an optimist. ;-)
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Ditto that sentiment. :-)
Thats it? Good job calcowgirl!
If it looks like he can take CA the big money and the suits will go to Rudy soon. Heck it's happening already.
Thanks! Just lookin' for truth.
I'll let you sift through my sarcasm.
The first part was designed to sound like a typical liberal moonbat.
It would also be a major blow to Conservatives for many years to come...though probably less so that Hillary.
And thanks for this, calcowgirl. A thread I had started on Rudy and social issues was spammed with the same thing. Looks like great work in setting the record straight
As a Duncan Hunter supporter, I hope the Rudy supporters do post what they think they have on Hunter.
What they think they have is on web sites of the far left.
I have seen them and have checked what they support.
It is an honor to have Hunter smeared by these people as it tells Hunter is doing his job for America and Conservative principles.
One smear site has for their list of source agenda,
SEIU CA (which is the huge Left Wing service union)
(Berkeley Labor Center) and other left wing groups.
I don't know. I read one poll where CHRISTIAN EVANGELICALS supported him to the tune of around 60%.
You can take it to the bank that poll is not correct. Who knows what questions were asked, or who is considering themselves an "Evangelical".
I have been a So. Baptist for all of my 65 years, and people are coming out of the woodwork calling themselves Evangelicals that I have never heard of before.
"Rudy ended the hoop system. Unless you're the mayor's good buddy, you can't own a handgun."
It's even worse than I thought.
I saw this posted on FreeRepublic. I'll try to find the link, but for now:
"No other city Mayor in the United States has filed such an anti-gun lawsuit. New York City has the strictest gun control laws and literally thousands of guns were confiscated by Giuliani's troops. And Giuliani is proud of that fact:
Archives of the Mayor's Press Office
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: Wednesday, August 1, 2001 Release #268-01
Contact: Sunny Mindel / Matthew Higgins
(212) 788-2958 View Mayor's
Tom Antenen (DCPI) (212) 374-6700 Press Conference
MAYOR GIULIANI AND POLICE COMMISSIONER KERIK ANNOUNCE
MORE THAN 3,000 GUNS TAKEN OFF NEW YORK CITY STREETS
TO BE TURNED INTO SCRAP METAL
City Has Seized Almost 90,000 Guns Since 1994
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik today announced that more than 3,000 guns taken off New York City streets will soon be turned into scrap metal. The New York Police Department recovered the guns over the last several months through a number of channels and the total includes guns that were used in the commission of crimes. The guns will be transported to an undisclosed location, where they will be smelted and the metal recycled. NYPD personnel will monitor every aspect of the entire process, until every gun has been destroyed.
"The Police Department's dramatic success in reducing crime is due in large part to its corresponding success in removing guns from City streets," the Mayor said. "More than 90,000 guns have been seized since 1994, and shootings have plummeted more than 74 percent. The NYPD's gun seizure success is also reflected in the murder rate, which has plummeted 65 percent since 1994, and is down another 11 percent this year over last year. The NYPD has also ensured that thousands of guns can never be used to commit a crime by destroying them and putting the metal to good use. Now, another 3,000 guns have been taken out of circulation -- permanently."
Police Commissioner Kerik said, "The destruction of these firearms is a very tangible reminder of the intensive efforts undertaken by the NYPD and the City to remove guns from our streets. Every gun taken out of circulation is one less gun that can be used to shoot an innocent citizen, gun down a hero cop, or carelessly end up in the hands of a child."
Including the guns to be destroyed following today's announcement, more than 7,371 guns will have been smelted this year to date. In 2000, the Police Department sent 8,278 guns to be smelted and turned into scrap metal.
www.nyc.gov"
You're happy with someone who is 80% liberal and 20% conservative. I am not.
Rudy is pro-abortion, pro-special rights for gays, pro-ILLEGAL immigration, pro-gun control and anti-freedom.
If this is OK with you, that is your problem.
If you would rather have nothing that that you want and everything you don't want, that's a conundrum, but your problem.
Rudy is pro-abortion, pro-special rights for gays, pro-ILLEGAL immigration, pro-gun control and anti-freedom.
As I said 80%.
If you back a candidate who is pro-abortion, you are either ignorant or unkind.
"The President (damn, I have to explain again!) does not confiscate guns. Congress does. If you don't want your guns taken, elect conservative (mostly Republican) Representatives and Senators. The President cannot, singlehandedly, accomplish gun control!"
It seems that every time one of Rudy's leftist views come up, it is "explained away" with the president can't do this, or the president can't do that.
That's not good enough for me. I will vote in the primaries for a CONSERVATIVE.
"I think it's safe to say that - politically speaking - George Allen IS a "done deal".'
lol
But Rudy will be next.
I'm not from Wisconsin. We live in NYS, and my husband is from NYC, and my sister lives in NYC, and so does my husband's family, so I know all about it.
But all that doesn't change the fact that Rudy is pro-abortion, special rights for gays, gun control, illegal immigration.
I will not be voting for any liberal in the primaries.
What will you do in the general, if Rudy is the GOP candidate?
There is no realistic way to leave such a huge political vacuum on the right and not have it be filled by someone.
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