Posted on 02/15/2007 3:20:42 PM PST by MittFan08
Rudy Building Lead Over McCain... [Rich Lowry]
...according to the new Fox News Poll. Asked who would they support in a Republican primary if the choices were McCain or Giuliani, 56% of Republicans said Giuliani, and 31% said McCain. 50% of Independents said Giuliani, and 27% said McCain. This represents a big bump for Giuliani since early December. Then, 42% of Republicans said they would pick Giuliani, 40% McCain, and 35% of Independents said they would support Giuliani while 41% said they would go with McCain.
02/15 05:34 PM
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Jim, where's the next Ronald Reagan?
Nice Rudy animation!
Thank you nit, I've had some nice comments on it.
Great poll and it's only going to get better! Just wait until Rudy makes the BIG announcement; he'll get an even bigger bump than anyone expects.
Upset? What did I write that ever made you imagine that?
I think you're imagining something that isn't there.
You asked questions. I answered them. If you didn't want me to answer them, why did you ask them?
As to the endorsements and swaying you, I don't want to sway you.
But when you post silly things like I'm not a conservative, it sort of cracks me up when I think of the good conservatives who have endorsed Rudy and how ya'll are willing to throw them under the bus.
Good luck finding that perfect conservative. I saw that you like Newt. FNC had a poll tonight and over 60% of Republicans said they'd never vote for him. He had the worst favorability ratings of any Republican running for the presidency (with the full understanding that he hasn't announced).
When you get a chance, let me know why you think I'm upset with you because that's a mystery to me. I enjoy debating but it is rather frustrating to get an answer like yours because it's not on point in any aspect.
You may be right about that. However, Hillary supposedly only had 9 hundred and something files. Over the past 6 years I have heard mention of at least 2000 people she has the goods on. Doesn't all add up. Somebody's file isn't in that box.
No, she hasn't "been campaigning against Rudy since 1996." And , again, no, she doesn't have Rudy's RAW FBI files; but, she has Newt's.
Nonsense. Giuliani will appoint judges in his own mold. If you listen to what he says you'll hear that he actually believes abortion "rights," gay "rights" and gun control "consistent with the second amendment" are constitutional. He therefore believes his judicial picks that think likewise will be "strict constructionists."
I wish Rudy had different positions on abortion and other issues.
But I try to live in the real world, and in that world we have a finite number of truly electable candidates for the Republican nomination. I am not under some delusion that another Ronald Reagan is going to magically appear on the scene. Rudy looks to me to be the best bet to defeat Hillary, so that's the starting point for my wanting to support him.
Beyond that, a lot changed for me after 9-11. It is now extremely important to me that if I put myself in the position of bin Laden with a suitcase nuke, I want a president in office who he is going to think "maybe I'd better not use this thing, or just maybe Mecca is going to go away." If Hillary were in charge, he'd probably risk it. I don't think he would if Rudy were calling those shots.
THAT is the issue that will drive my vote the most- who will protect my kids from the bin Ladens of the world? And I'm willing to overlook some things if I think I've found that candidate. If that makes me a bad conservative, so be it.
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"Nonsense. Giuliani will appoint judges in his own mold."
The district and appellate court judges are submitted by nominations of the Senators in a particular state when they are Republicans or (I believe) the ranking Republican Congressman if there are no Republican Senators. That means that the same kind of judges will continue to be nominated as has been the case under Bush, for the district and appellate courts.
The Supreme Court nominees will all be Giuliani's call, but he's made a solemn promise to appoint conservative judges. It is the bargain he is making with his party. He's known as a man of his word, and, beyond that, he will know that the conservatives can always torpedo his re-election by nominating a third party candidate. I have little doubt that he will keep his word, even if he ideally would like to appoint more moderate judges.
Or are you saying it is better to lose 8 yrs of the White House on the chance the pendulum might swing far right... after the damage is done?
Well, voting for the "right-wing kook" as Coulter put it also got us Goldwater in 1964. Who was a great conservative, but I think he carried his home state of Arizona, a few deep south states and that's it. And LBJ's Great Society ensued.
Just think what Hillary has in store for us- socialized health care is a likely bet.
Ronald Reagan had name recognition, great conservative credentials, an incredible ability to comunicate and touch people, charisma and huge stones.
Unfortunately, men like that may come once in a lifetime, or even less.
Between them, we find the most electable.
The fact that a quarterback can't match up to a Dan Marino or a Joe Montana doesn't mean that he can't win games.
Not impressive at all. Can't tell the difference between the two. Why vote at all. We will have a democratic President with these two anyway.
Let's say Alan Keyes had been elected President in 2000.
Do you think abortion would be legal today?
Do you think he would have served more than one term?
Do you think any of his SCJ choices would have been seated on the court?
Apparently, abortion is the top issue in this election, so please have each pro-life candidate explain, in detail, how they will stop abortion. Remember, it cannot be reduced or incremental... it must be stopped at once, as soon as possible once they take office.
Ted Olson:
From the article at The Spectator:
"I've known him for 26 years and we've talked about this many times," Olson said. "He feels very strongly that people like Justice Scalia, Chief Justice Roberts, Sam Alito, Clarence Thomas, are the type of people that he would put on the court…I'm quite convinced that this is a genuine viewpoint that he has."
But I can see that Olson is just another person a lot of freepers want to throw under the bus.
Potlatch Bump!
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