Posted on 02/25/2007 7:17:47 AM PST by areafiftyone
February 24, 2007
Rudy To Attend CPAC
I reported a piece last month about how Rudy and McCain were skipping some conservative conferences. One of the events I mentioned that they had not yet RSVP'd to is the Grandaddy Of Them All -- the Conservative Political Action Conference or CPAC.
Turns out Rudy will attend CPAC. He'll speak to the confab Friday.
Well said. As we're being told to ad nauseam by the Rudybots. Rudy is a security expert tough on terrorism, with unquestioned leadership skills, and only he can beat Hillary. Those are presumptions, NOT hard facts. Problem: I don't see any proof to back it up. Rudy did a good job as Mayor by NYCity standards. However, cleaning up Times Square, eliminating the squeegee-men, arresting public urinators, catching turnstile jumpers, throwing Arafat out of NYCity and refusing $10-million from some Arab, are not the issues that conservative activists will be judging candidates on in the GOP primaries.
These endless diatribes telling us how Rudy Giuliani is the savior of the GOP aren't based on any conservative analysis I know of. They're downright silly. More emotionally based then intellectual. Rudy`s brand of politics has always been about liberalism. Not conservatism.
He was only on wife number two then. He dumped wife number two in a public press conference while Mayor though.
Well, we're in good company, then:
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.
---Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787).
Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American...[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.
---Tenche Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
[W]hereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it.
---Richard Henry Lee, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
[C]onceived it to be the privilege of every citizen, and one of his most essential rights, to bear arms, and to resist every attack upon his liberty or property, by whomsoever made. The particular states, like private citizens, have a right to be armed, and to defend, by force of arms, their rights, when invaded.
14 Debates in the House of Representatives, ed. Linda Grand De Pauw. (Balt., Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1972), 92-3.
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
--- Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1785. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (Memorial Edition) Lipscomb and Bergh, editors.
No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
---Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution, 1776.
[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
---James Madison,The Federalist Papers, No. 46.
No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
---Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution, 1776.
He dropped out of the race due to illness. Find a better argument.
Does Catholic theology have the one bite rule?
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It is interesting that Jefferson wrote about the salubriousness of guns as to one's health. Who knew? :)
Yet he wasn't too ill to continue his mayoral duties and being mayor of NYC is arguably far more strenuous than a senate campaign.
That was my impression last time I attended.
And why I no longer do.
That's right. To restore a healthy America, every man should be armed. :-)
So, I was just wondering, if Catholic theology allows one to divorce once, but not twice, on the theory that the first mistake is not negligence, but the second one is. After all, Rudy was elected as a divorced man.
I guess given the illness Rudy figured he couldn't do both.
Yeah. It's pretty much become Hackville. Shoot, they let the ACLU have a booth. I wish I was joking...
No, his first wife was a second cousin. He got a very legitimate RCC Annulment after his civil divorce from wife number one. He then married, in a RCC ceremony wife number two. In spite of the civil divorce, that is still considered a VALID wedding contract and he is not free to contract again as long as Donna (wife number two) is alive, unless of course, he can get another annulment. Therefore, if he is still married to wife number two in the eyes of the Church, he is living in sin in a public and disgraceful fashion with the women he calls he current wife.
That was in Georgia as I recall.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789720/posts?page=36#36
Excerpt:
In the early to mid 1990s, mayor Giuliani provided profuse tax incentives to corporations to move into Manhattan, and initiated a “quality of life” campaign in order to cleanse the urban space of cultural and social elements undesired by these corporate citizens. As part of this campaign, Giuliani established the Multi-Agency Nightclub Enforcement Task Force in 1997, in order to monitor violations of the cabaret law.
Thanks Cal. Fascism made the dance clubs "safe" from competition. No Rudy, not now, not never.
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