Posted on 03/02/2007 8:40:17 AM PST by areafiftyone
All day today we are covering speakers and panels at the 34th Annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC. This morning, we'll hear from Republican presidential hopeful former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. He will be followed by Reps. Scott Garrett (NJ), Tom Tancredo (CO), and others.
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ROFL...that's funny on several levels.
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LOL, you're hysterical on several levels.
Don't worry, Brownback's speech was even worse.
Yes, Brownback was terrible. What do you know, we agreed on something :)
Miracles never cease! :-)
Actually, Romney is a better speaker than Guiliani and FAR more articulate. AND unlike Rudy, he has NO LISP.
I didn't know a lisp disqualified one from being POTUS.
What exactly is your definition of "conservatism"? My definition is a desire for less government control over our lives and more individual freedom.
"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is. Now, I can’t say that I will agree with all the things that the present group who call themselves Libertarians in the sense of a party say, because I think that like in any political movement there are shades, and there are libertarians who are almost over at the point of wanting no government at all or anarchy. I believe there are legitimate government functions. There is a legitimate need in an orderly society for some government to maintain freedom or we will have tyranny by individuals. The strongest man on the block will run the neighborhood. We have government to insure that we don’t each one of us have to carry a club to defend ourselves. But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are travelling the same path".
--Ronald Reagan
Here's the entire Reagan interview from Reason in July 1975.
Heck, if Rudy can invoke my idol's name ad nauseam, why can't I? When did Reagan, Goldwater, Frank Meyer or Buckley ever mention homos? I have many concerns about Giuliani as President, but I'm sick and tired of people disqualifying him for President because he slept on a couch at the townhouse of a friend who happened to be gay. Don't confuse the hundreds of millions of voting Americans with someone who actually gives a crap about that. Give me a legitimate, logical policy argument. Guns, gay marriage, abortion are fair game.
I watched it again tonight and thought he did a great job, as did many others I have spoken to who watched today. Some were sitting on the fence but they liked what he had to say especially on taxes, education and the WOT. I missed George Will earlier so I was glad I got to see his intro too.
I thought George Will's intro was especially strong. He really gave a great overview of how debased NYC had become as a result of gross mismanagement ... and how Rudy brought it back.
I missed it this morning. Glad I caught it tonight.
His segue from domestic issues into the WOT (where he flipped 3 pages of notes while the audience applauded) looked too scripted and uncomfortable. But boring? No, come on. It's a CPAC political speech not an Eddie Murphy "Raw" stand up routine for crying out loud. That's about as entertaining as you're going to get.
Incoherent. He'd start a sentence, stop, go in another direction and never make it back to where he started.
True enough. But that's what people like about folksy orators that make it sound like they are talking from the heart instead of from a prepared speech. If the oratory is perfect in this environment it sounds canned.
He kept talking about public education like any Democrat would talk. I wanted to throw up. He talked about "bringing people out of poverty"
Yeah, we right wingers care about those things too. (I do and I'm sure you do also) They just don't believe that mo Gubmint is the solution. I thought he did a good job speaking about free market solutions to those issues.
But if that's your impression of him, you weren't watching the same speech as the rest of us.
You are mischaracterizing what he said on so many levels, but particularly in regard to what he said about our enemies.
What he said was that the war will continue until they no longer want to come over here and kill us. He said this is not a war on terror, this is their war on us. And he was VERY strong about meeting that challenge.
Yes, he looked with hope to the future. He gave the example that our enemies of WWII are now our friends. Our enemies of the Cold War are ~becoming~ our friends.
And THEN he said that someday - IF WE MEET THE CHALLENGE AS RONALD REAGAN DID WITH "PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH" then our enemies of today may someday be our friends.
That's what he said E.V.
And it was brilliant.
Maybe that's why you missed it.
I didn't catch Brownback. I just caught the tail end of Huckabee.
I thought the response was "polite" but not quite excited.
George Will is one of the most respected and brilliant conservatives minds of this era, and I think his introduction showed the high esteem and respect he has for Rudy.
I've never seen a less presidential speech.
Then you obviously need to get out more.
He also seemed to have a particular affinity for speaking before the CPAC crowd.
We have all seen EV's posts and one thing we can say for sure is that he isnt known for factual analysis.
Well, yes. There's that. ;-)
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