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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Goerge Will is introducing Rudy according to National Review Magazine.
Will the Rudy Shill is speaking. Audience is somewhat restrained.
Since I'm watching...I picked that up! Thanks!
No, they don't have a sense of humor. It's really very sad.
George Will:
Talking about the decline of NYC. Conventional wisdom was that to be mayor of NYC was to be dead end and an impossible job.
Only 3 presidents were ever former mayors.
Mayor of NYC has more people than 39 other states, more difficult to govern than any of the states. A seriously troubled place because of its liberalism.
Produced governance by grievance groups and learned dependency on a welfare state.
But then came a man (Rudy) who said "Millions of people from across the world have acome here and didn't come here to be taken care of by the government. They came here to take care of themselves."
Rudy said 70% of long term prisoners in NYC come from homes without fathers so the best social programs would be called fatherhood.
He said of the school system it's time to go to a choice system and break up the monolopy.
He said he fought bilingual education. He restored the City Univesity to what it had been -- the Harvard to the working class. Then it went to open admissions and no longer was an avenue to upward mobility.
Public school choice line gets applause for George Will
Hey,we are both in NY call me on the phone... I will put you next to the speaker and you can listen!!!
George Will is doing a terrific job!
Peach your typing abilities are amazing! Thanks so much!
Applause when George Will talked about how Rudy had lowered the welfare rolls.
Great intro by George Will
Ironic that he should bring that up since Rudy Giuliani dumped his wife and family, kicking them out of their home, and leaving them in a home without a father when he moved in his most recent extramarital sex partner. His kids were aged 10 and 14 when he left them in a home without a father. Hmmmm....
George Will:
Think of Breakfast at Tiffany's and how it had become Bonfire of the Vanities.
Welfare rolls increased (gave #'s) to huge proportions. Rudy shrank the welfare rolls by 600,000. The murder rate declined 67%. The city budget in his 8 years increasd at only 2.9% a year.
He lowered taxes. When he first came into office he was handed a deficit and a study which recommended a tax increase. Rudy literally dropped it in the garbage.
After 9/11, some people asked him if taxes should be increased and he said "That would be dumb, stupid, idiotic and moronic."
Micahel Barone has written that Rudy improved the life of American citizens more than any other person in America (We need that exact quote!)
You are amazing!
George Will:
Rudy's conservatism is the flavor of Margaret Thatchers. Hurray
M. Thatcher: I hope you're watching.
STANDIING OVATION FOR RUDY!!!!!!!
GW says Rudy produced the 8 most effective years of conservative local governance in the 20th Century
Wow, pretty enthusiastic reception!
I loved that!!!
George Will is lying through his teech right now, calling Giuliani a conservative. Mentioned 8 successive years of conservative governance. I guess George and I haven't been looking at the same mayor's record. I don't know who he's got Giuliani confused with.
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