[areafiftyone]

((((Rudy PING)))))

[tkathy]

Like it or not, Rudy is connecting with a wide spectrum of voters.

[TommyDale]

Woop-de-doo.

[TommyDale]

Recent headline:

Rudy top choice among mental patients

[You Dirty Rats]

This is a VERY conservative part of Ohio (NW Hamilton County) and there were a lot of influential local Republicans at this meeting.

Also, this area is very important for fund raising. The zipcode for Indian Hill a few miles east of the meeting ranked 2nd among all zipcodes in the country for GWB fundraising.

[garv]

No way! Rudy got 27 votes at a pancake breakfast, it's all over now.

I took a poll of the seven people in my house this morning and Rudy got zero. I'll alert the media.

[LdSentinal]

Way too early. 4 years ago, Joe Lieberman was was ahead in the Dem primary polls.

[Condor51]

Rudy Giuliani's Vulnerabilities
Secret study cited "weirdness factor" among candidate weaknesses

Conservative Case Against Rudy Giuliani
"If you agree with the way that Nancy Pelosi and Company deal with illegal immigration, then you'll find the way that Rudy Giuliani tackles the issue to be right down your alley."

Is that all there is?
"But it seems foolish and unprincipled to advance a Republican alternative (Rudy) who is at least equally as committed as the Democrat, and maybe even more so, to a muscular, intrusive and virtually unlimited government...

his views on gay marriage and his highly publicized bitter divorce, but the consistent strands throughout his public life revolve around his arrogance and lust for power."

To paraphrase Ralph Nader ... Unacceptable At Any Speed.

[Sun]

There are liberal Republicans and conservative Republicans, so I hope the CONSERVATIVE Republicans will vote for Duncan Hunter in the primaries:

And another thing....

"Giuliani recently told my buddy Sean Hannity that he knows how to pick strict constructionist judges because he was in the meetings at the White House when the president was selecting judges. The fact is that Giuliani had little or no role in the selection of judges. I know this because I was later intimately involved in the process. As both counselor to the president and attorney general, Ed Meese was Ronald Reagan's right-hand man in helping to change the judiciary, as he was in so many policy areas. This would be the same Ed Meese, Reagan’s closest advisor, who Giuliani or someone on his staff once called a “sleaze” during the course of another rogue independent counsel’s investigation. This was Giuliani trying to distance himself from the Reagan administration to appeal to liberal New Yorkers – the same Reagan administration he now proudly embraces. It was an act of political cowardice and betrayal for which Giuliani has never apologized.

There are other issues that not only provide voters with the measure of a man, but which are very important to the future of the nation. Some of us believe that man-made global warming is a farce being vigorously promoted by the Left as a major assault on liberty, capitalism and limited government. It is the latest effort to grow the administrative state and regulate vast areas of private life. While campaigning earlier this week in California, the San Francisco Chronicle quotes Giuliani saying:
“The overwhelming number of scientists now believe that there is significant human cause.” He said the debate on the existence of global warming is "is almost unnecessary...because we should be dealing with pollution anyway.”

Others have debunked the idiocy that is the latest United Nations report on this subject. But the point is that Giuliani, like McCain and Arnold Swarzenegger, is prepared to expand government power in ways that few conservatives could justify or endorse.

I also don’t think Swarzenegger is anybody’s example of a conservative these days. But during this same California trip, Giuliani announced: "I generally agree with Gov. Schwarzenegger. He's a good friend and a progressive leader.'' Swarzenegger is also the most widely irresponsible, big-spending governor in the history of California, and that’s saying something. So, which is it? Is Giuliani a limited government Reaganite, or is he a global warming, big-government progressive? His signals and actions are mixed, as they’ve been for decades."

excerpt from levin.nationalreview.com

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

If you have to post from the Enquirer... LOL!

Are all of your dogs barking?

[Afronaut]

Of 80 ballots cast at the Sharonville Convention Center, Giuliani was the leader with 27 votes.

This is NEWS? You are really diggin' areafiftyone! LOL!