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Ted Olson Supporting Giuliani
American Spectator ^ | 2/13/07

Posted on 02/13/2007 12:34:44 PM PST by zarf

Theodore Olson, the stalwart conservative lawyer and former solicitor general for the Bush administration, told the Spectator he will be supporting Rudy Giuliani's presidential bid.

"I admire his character, his capacity for leadership, his instincts, and his principles," Olson said over the phone this afternoon. He said he will help Giuliani raise money as well as offer advice on legal issues and domestic policy matters that involve constitutional questions.

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To: zarf
Aren't these guys old friends from the Reagan Justice Department?
21 posted on 02/13/2007 12:45:38 PM PST by msnimje (You simply cannot be Christian and Pro-Abortion.)
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To: Wormwood

Thanks, worm.


22 posted on 02/13/2007 12:46:59 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant
I heard Bill Bennett and Jonah Goldberg this AM waxing poetic about Rudy

Bill Bennett had a falling out with James Dobson over Colin Powell an election or so ago--Powell didn't run and we still took the White House...

23 posted on 02/13/2007 12:47:19 PM PST by WalterSkinner ( ..when there is any conflict between God and Caesar -- guess who loses?)
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To: zarf
"I admire his character, his capacity for leadership, his instincts, and his principles,"

He is not only pro-abortion, he is pro-partical birth abortion. He is not only pro-gay marriage, he is radically pro-gay marriage.

Ted Olson admires those things...or is he just not aware of them and making an endorsement before checking it out? I seriously doubt he is unaware of them and I judge must therefore be willing to compromise on those fundamental moral issues to get what he views as the other positives the the former mayor may bring to the table.

As for me, anyone who gets it wrong on either of those issues, or on immigration or the 2nd amendment, is not fit to be president in any way shape or form, no matter what other issues they may support.

24 posted on 02/13/2007 12:47:50 PM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: zarf

He's a baby-killer-supporter.


25 posted on 02/13/2007 12:48:08 PM PST by Sloth (The GOP is to DemonRats in politics as Michael Jackson is to Jeffrey Dahmer in babysitting.)
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To: Buck W.

I can't help but wonder if Barbara would support Rudy. I would seriously doubt it.


26 posted on 02/13/2007 12:48:18 PM PST by basil (Exercise your Second Amendment rights--buy another gun today.)
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To: zarf

What's become of us?

We've got to stop this, we're getting worse than a bunch of 12 year olds fighting on the playground!

I'm not a big fan of Rudy. At all. But we've got to stop this damn bickering and insulting one another!

On one side you have the "Rudy is Evil" whackjobs that hate anyone who'd even think of voting for him.

On the other side, the Rudy boot-lickers who think he's the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

And they go at each others' throats like kids. Or the Hatfields and McCoys.

Both groups are causing the demise of the GOP and the conservative movement.

STOP IT!!! WE'RE BETTER THAN THAT!

/rant


27 posted on 02/13/2007 12:48:25 PM PST by RockinRight (When Chuck Norris goes to bed at night, he checks under the bed for Jack Bauer.)
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To: Spiff
"I wish he'd have picked a Republican."

Exactly. Ted Olsen appears to be merely another GOP party operative who puts party before principle, and as the current "conventional wisdom" dictates, is happy to throw away the espoused principles of the GOP if that means getting an "R" elected.

Just another reason why I have curtailed my involvement in the Republican party, if not conservative activism per se.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

28 posted on 02/13/2007 12:48:58 PM PST by Joe Brower (Sheep have two speeds: "graze" and "stampede".)
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To: zarf
I'm marveling at all the pro Rudy segments on talk radio and tv. It seems Rudy deserves points for being an incredible organizer and for having impressed all these people. I like Rudy for three main reasons: Cleaned up crime in NYC; No Nonsense life risking bravery on 9-11; strong supporter of national defense.

Whether I want Rudy as the nominee is a wait and see. But I am pretty certain all this Rudy adulation is a vote of no confidence in McCain - who is conservative on more issues!

29 posted on 02/13/2007 12:49:01 PM PST by Williams
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To: Blackirish; Jameison; Sabramerican; BunnySlippers; tkathy; veronica; Roccus; Jake The Goose; ...

((((PING)))))


30 posted on 02/13/2007 12:49:15 PM PST by areafiftyone (RUDY GIULIANI 2008 - STRENGTH AND LEADERSHIP)
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To: zarf

Not Rudy again!

I'm sick of All-Rudy-All-The-Time at FR.

We can do better than nominate a RINO for president.


31 posted on 02/13/2007 12:50:19 PM PST by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: zarf

Olsen's endorsement is standard boiler plate.

One attorney (former prosecutor) endorsing another.

If Olsen was running, Rudy would endorse him.

Nothing to see here folks, move along.


32 posted on 02/13/2007 12:50:20 PM PST by mkjessup (If Reagan were still with us, he'd ask us to "win one more for the Gipper, vote for Duncan Hunter!")
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To: RockinRight
WE'RE BETTER THAN THAT!

Really? What makes you think so?

33 posted on 02/13/2007 12:50:31 PM PST by Wormwood (Your Friendly Neighborhood Moderate)
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To: pissant
---"I heard Bill Bennett and Jonah Goldberg this AM waxing poetic about Rudy. No mention of Hunter. I am going to have to force feed these idiots."---

The National Review folks all want to have sex with the man. This is just the type of Republican all of those types like: Fiscal Con who'll go to war without blinking, and who wants all of the Gun and SoCon issues permanently purged from the party, and their voters subjugated forever on intentionally broken promises of "strict constructionists.".

Remember, most of these folks were Harriet Miers defenders who ANGRILY tried to shout down her detractors on the right - like at FR. I will never forget their names, whether it's Michael Medved or anyone else.

Get ready, because if Rudy should win and nominate one of his Pro-Roe, "strict constructionists," we're going to be battling a stubborn President, and the National Review types and Party-hack talk show hosts. and they will shout everybody down again who objects.

The argument will quickly change to "Yes, I guess you can technically be Pro-Roe and still be a 'strict constructionist.'" And we'll hear justification after justification after justification.....
34 posted on 02/13/2007 12:50:36 PM PST by TitansAFC (Pacifism is not peace; pacifists are not peacemakers.)
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To: zarf

Ted Olson for SCOTUS!


35 posted on 02/13/2007 12:51:41 PM PST by NeoCaveman (Hillary Hugo Chavez wants to "take those profits" away from you, for the common good)
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To: WalterSkinner

I'm not a big Bennet fan. His book of virtues is good, but his banter on the radio puts me in a coma.


36 posted on 02/13/2007 12:51:57 PM PST by pissant
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To: Buck W.
Not surprising, as Rudy will take the toughest position among all candidates against those who killed Barbara.

Great point.

37 posted on 02/13/2007 12:52:00 PM PST by PRND21
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To: zarf

Ted Olson knows who will be tough on terror. GREAT NEWS!!


38 posted on 02/13/2007 12:52:00 PM PST by areafiftyone (RUDY GIULIANI 2008 - STRENGTH AND LEADERSHIP)
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To: zarf

"I admire his character" leaves Olson losing credibility.


39 posted on 02/13/2007 12:52:09 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: zarf
Needless to say, I and many others won't be supporting Rudy in either a primary or a general election.

Rudy Guiliani has marched in lockstep with liberals on affirmative action, gay rights, gay marriage, gun control, school prayer, tuition tax credits, liberal immigration policies, and he's reinforced it, time and time again. Just about everytime Rudy opens his mouth, offensive liberal words come pouring out. As Mayor, Rudy put liberals in high-paid city jobs, an indication what a Rudy WH would look like. Here then is Rudy in his own words:

--The New York State Liberal Party on its endorsement of Rudy Giuliani for Mayor: "When the Liberal Party Policy Committee reviewed a list of key social issues of deep concern to progressive New Yorkers, we found that Rudy Giuliani agreed with the Liberal Party's stance on a majority of such issues. He agreed with the Liberal Party's views on affirmative action, gay rights, gun control, school prayer and tuition tax credits. As Mayor, Rudy Giuliani would uphold the Constitutional and legal rights to abortion." N.Y.S. Liberal Party Endorsement Statement of Candidate Giuliani for Mayor of New York City April 8, 1989

--On the Republican Party: "Mr. Rockefeller represented 'a tradition in the Republican Party' I've worked hard to re-kindle - the Rockefeller, Javits, Lefkowitz tradition." Rudy Giuliani told the New York Times July 9, 1992

--Village Voice Interview with Guiliani: He was asked: "What kind of Republican Is [Giuliani]? A Reagan Republican?" Giuliani pauses before answering: "I'm a Republican." Village Voice January 24, 1989

--On Attending 1996 Republican Convention: Rudy expressed his pleasure when he wasn't invited to the Republican National Convention in San Diego. "If I take three or four days off from city business, I want to do it for a substantive purpose. It didn't seem to me any substantive purpose could be served by going to the Republican convention." said Rudy. Rudy! An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani, Page 459, by Wayne Barrett

--On Barry Goldwater: Giuliani described John Kennedy as "great and brilliant. Barry Goldwater as an "incompetent, confused and sometimes idiotic man." New York Daily News, May 13, 1997

--On President Bill Clinton: Shortly before his last-minute endorsement of Bob Dole in the 1996 presidential election, Giuliani told the Post's Jack Newfield that "most of Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine." Rudy! An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani, Wayne Barrett.

--The Daily News quoted Giuliani as saying March 1996: "Whether you talk about President Clinon, Senator Dole.... The country would be in very good hands in the hands of any of that group." An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani, Wayne Barrett.

--Revealing at one point that he was "open" to the idea of endorsing Clinton, Rudy said: "When I ran for mayor both times, '89 and '93, I promised people that I would be, if not bipartisan, at least open to the possibility of supporting Democrats." Rudy! An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani, Wayne Barrett, Page 459

---Rudy Giuliani Endorses Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo October 1994: "From my point of view as the mayor of New York City, the question that I have to ask is, ˜Who has the best chance in the next four years of successfully fighting for our interest? Who understands them, and who will make the best case for it?' Our future, our destiny is not a matter of chance. It's a matter of choice. My choice is Mario Cuomo." Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City book by Andrew Kirtzman, Page 133

--Reaction to Giuliani Endorsement of Cuomo: "Once again, Rudolph Giuliani has demonstrated that liberalism is the foundation of his political philosophy. While Giuliani sold a bill of goods to trusting Republicans and Reagan Democrats that he had abandoned his roots as a McGovern Democrat, in his endorsement of Mario Cuomo, Mr. Liberal himself, he has shown his true colors. Giuliani's argument that Cuomo will be better for the city has a hollow ring to it. Perhaps Rudy wants a governor who will sign over a blank check to constantly bail out the city from its fiscal problems. Giuliani knows, as do all New Yorkers, that Cuomo's liberal policies have been an economic disaster for our city and state." "But Rudy doesn't care. He has proven he will do anything to stop the election of a conservative Republican - but he won't succeed." Michael Long, Chairman N.Y.S. Conservative Party Press Statement, October 25, 1994

--"[Quite] frankly, you have to understand the fact that Rudy Giuliani was a McGovern Democrat, he was endorsed by the Liberal Party when he ran for Mayor. In his heart, he's a Democrat. He's paraded all over this country with Bill Clinton and, in fact, he's very comfortable with Mario Cuomo. But what Rudy Giuliani wants is to be bailed out in the city, in the mess he's in, and everybody understands very clearly in politics that they struck a deal, that Mario's going to continue to be the big spender, save Rudy the options of raising taxes by pouring money statewide into the City of New York and bailing it out. Quite frankly, I predict that he will join the Democratic Party." Interview with Michael Long, Chairman N.Y.S. Conservative Party, CNN Crossfire, October 25, 1994

--On Gay Domestic-Partner Rights: "National Republicans can lump it if they don't like his new domestic-partners bill, "Mayor Giuliani said yesterday. "I really haven't thought about what the impact is on Republican politics or national politics or Democratic politics," Giuliani said. The bill he submitted to the City Council would extend the benefits city agencies must grant to gay and lesbian couples. "I'm proud of it," Giuliani said of the bill. "I think it puts New York City ahead of other places in the country." New York Daily News, May 13, 1998

--On Gay-Rights/Gay Rights Bill: Giuliani favors extended civil-rights protection for gays and lesbians. Giuliani urged, by letter, to the New York Senate Majority Leader to pass the state's first ever gay rights bill, but did it privately. "I am writing to convey my support for the current legislation to prohibit discrimination against gays and lesbians, and to urge you to allow the bill onto the floor of the Senate for prompt action." ".......It is my belief that we can penalize discrimination [against gays] without creating any potentially objectionable special privileges or preferential treatment." New York Post, June 5, 1993

--Now Rudy Giuliani has jumped on the bandwagon, pressing the state Republican Party to release a gay-rights bill to the Senate floor for a vote. Marching in Sunday's [Gay Pride] parade, he has enlisted in the struggle to destroy the family. What a perfectly abominable springboard to seek high political office. Ray Kerrison New York Post, June 30, 1993

--Giuliani said homosexuality is "good and normal." quoting Ray Kerrison New York Post, July 7, 1989

--On Gay Domestic Partnership: "I have no objection to the concept of domestic partnership," said Rudy Giuliani on Informed Sources New York T.V. Show (PBS), May, 1992

--On Abortion: Leaflets distributed by the Giuliani campaign .... said that he opposes restrictions to Federal Medicaid financing for abortions and opposes the Hyde Amendment, which is intended to deny support for that financing. New York Times, June 18, 1993.

--Rudy Guiliani on abortion: "I'd give my daughter the money for it [an abortion]."

--"I never called for the overturning of Roe vs. Wade." Rudy Giuliani, New York Newsday, September 1, 1989

--As mayor, Rudy Giuliani will uphold a woman's right of choice to have an abortion. Giuliani will fund all city programs which provide abortions to insure that no woman is deprived of her right due to an inability to pay. He will oppose reductions in state funding. He will oppose making abortion illegal. New York Times, August 4, 1989

--On Partial Birth Abortion: Mr. Giuliani has said that New York State law should not be changed to outlaw the procedure. New York Times, January 7, 1998

--On School Choice: "He doesn't support tuition tax credits and vouchers." Sandra Feldman, President of N.Y.C. Teacher's Union, 1993

--On Taxes: [Giuliani] says ruling out a tax increase is "political pandering." Newsday, August 31, 1989
40 posted on 02/13/2007 12:52:32 PM PST by Old_Mil (http://www.gohunter08.com/)
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