Posted on 02/12/2007 5:48:55 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Moves Closer To Full-Fledged Presidential Run
(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON -- Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Monday defended the Iraq war and criticized Al Gore's global-warming movie.
As for his presidential ambitions, Giuliani coyly inched closer to a formal announcement.
"I am 100 percent committed," he said. "That official part, I still have to do a formal announcement. But we'll figure out how to do that. My idea is that I'm going to try to announce this in 100 different places."
Giuliani, a Republican, said he supports efforts to move California's 2008 presidential primary from June to February, a shift that would allow him to compete outside of conservative early voting states where his stands on gays, guns and abortion have been viewed as too liberal.
A number of other states are also considering moving up their primaries.
In a wide-ranging speech, Giuliani emphasized his experience as mayor during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and his record on reducing crime, unemployment and other problems in the city.
He said the war in Iraq is crucial to combating global terrorism.
"What America needs is probably a reminder of why this is happening and why the sacrifice of those American lives, which is heartbreaking, is necessary," he said. "It's necessary because having a stable situation in Iraq will quicken our ability to defeat terrorism."
Pulling out of the country too quickly, he said, will allow terrorism to "get a home and a headquarters attached to Iran and Syria."
When asked about former Vice President Al Gore's Oscar-nominated documentary about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," Giuliani criticized the film as lacking in solutions.
Giuliani said he believes global warming is occurring but is not sure how much is caused by humans, and he suggested the U.S. should look at expanding its use of nuclear power and other alternative energy sources.
He also said the U.S. health care crisis must be solved by "preserving the private, competitive market-driven nature of health care."
"That's a much better solution than a topdown government plan," he said.
It's still early days, the last time, the bannings happened much later.
Great picture.
Sure. The need to keep Social Security solvent by adding replacement workers to fill the baby bust has been a prime mover in illegal immigration. Abetting homosexuality adds child abuse cases, crime, adds to the number of broken families in need of welfare, increases the number of single parents whose kids are less productive than otherwise...
There evokes the reason communist Antonio Gramsci advocated immorality, feminism, and homosexuality in his program of Cultural Marxism: It was to break down the family as the foundation of Western Culture such that the state could take the lead in child rearing. Gramsci's heirs in the Frankfurt School were kicked out of Germany in the 1930s and came to Roosevelt's America. Adorno, Marcuse, Fromm, and Maslow were instrumental in imbedding Critical Theory into the American academy. The rest is history.
LOL. IF you believe that, don't leave out that he is ten feet tall, machine gun bullets bounce off his chest, and he can bend steel in his bare hands.
By the way, I've got some land in Florida that I can sell to you by the quart.
I've concluded this gun fetish is Freudian.
what bunch? the Rudy crew, of course.. maybe it was a different bunch. My mistake if so.. it wouldn't be unusual to have more than one group working the crowd, I suppose. lol
Isn't this place like the hatfields and McCoys these days, it has been for a couple weeks..
National Review doesn't give a picture date. But the suit is dated? :)
Soo, when are they going to announce his official announcement?
I understand all that. And there is a sizable number (in fact, quite the majority per a previous poll) who are going with candidates who espouse the traditional conservative possitions, which Rudy does not.
It's the CIVIL WAR and getting worse.
And it's been going on far longer than you say; sadly.
No harm in that, if we can keep some degree of civility. WE can't use actual shootin' arns, ya know.
You call an unalienable right to self-defense Freudian?
That's pretty sick bucko.
You call investing the people with the power to depose a tyrannical government a fetish?
It's pretty stupid too.
"Rudy is also for smaller government, less taxes, law and order, and returning social issues to the States"
"LOL. IF you believe that, don't leave out that he is ten feet tall, machine gun bullets bounce off his chest, and he can bend steel in his bare hands"
OK, Now the FACTS:
Rudy decreased the size of NYC government as Mayor.
Rudy cut taxes as Mayor.
Rudy cut crime overall and cut the murder rate by 70%.
Rudy was appointed twice by Ronald Reagan to the Justice Department.
Rudy:" I have a very, very strong view that for this country to work, for our freedoms to be protected, judges have to interpret not invent the Constitution."
You may not like it, but those are the FACTS. Look it up.
I agree. :-)
"And there is a sizable number (in fact, quite the majority per a previous poll) who are going with candidates who espouse the traditional conservative possitions, which Rudy does not."
And I sincerely wish those candidates success.
The more viable candidates that go to the convention the better.
Fair enough..
How do you unite a divided forum and party?
Be true to the principles it was founded on and stop taking the path of least resistance as this party and many at this forum have been doing for too many years.
The cost to do otherwise will leave us all in ruin and the country in ruination.
The desire to win at any cost has too high a cost in and of itself.
We've witnessed that here in California already.
No, I didn't quite agree with you. Unless you just read the first sentence of last night's post. I then went on and said that I fully expected Rudy to get a lot of the same people Reagan got - you know - those Reagan Democrats and moderates.
And just this morning I awarded a Freeper "Goofiest Post I Have Seen in Eight and a Half Years on the Board" trophy.
I may have to withdraw that or at least have a first runner up.
I don't like Newt either, but since he's become the new standard bearer around here (after Reagan, of course), I just thought I'd mention how his Contract with America didn't contain any language about abortion or gun rights.
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