Posted on 03/03/2007 10:04:21 PM PST by FairOpinion
The man who was named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for his response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is now leading in a slew of national polls and testing whether cultural and religious conservatives in the GOP will support a candidate who offers strong leadership on security and terrorism rather than ideological purity on social issues.
Whit Ayres, a Georgia-based Republican pollster, said he has been struck by the number of conservatives he encountered who disagree with Giuliani on abortion or gay rights but are still attracted to him as a possible Republican nominee. The issue is whether that appeal can survive through a long campaign in which Giuliani's New York record, his position on issues, his three marriages and his complex business dealings will be subjected to withering scrutiny.
The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll showed Giuliani leading McCain by 44 percent to 21 percent, with former House speaker Newt Gingrich at 15 percent and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney at 4 percent.
Many GOP strategists still question whether Giuliani can survive the scrutiny and develop a message that appeals to voters across the spectrum of Republican conservatism. In his speech Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, Giuliani highlighted his record as a tax cutter, crime fighter and welfare reformer. But he offered little resembling a traditional conservative agenda for the future, other than saying the United States must remain on offense against terrorism. The speech won a polite but hardly enthusiastic response from the audience of activists.
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"Hunter can't win the primary; let alone the general election. And he has the same stance, as Rudy does, on partial birth abortion"
Where did THAT come from????
Read this, then come back and tell me Hunter has the same stance as Rudy.
http://rightwingnews.com/interviews/duncanhunter.php
MM
Makes me dangerous to this nation does it? LOL!! I had no idea that I had so much power and influence that I could actually be dangerous to this nation. You better watch out then! That's really funny. I've said this often, I learn something new here everyday on FR. I've got to say, you have given me a lot of good entertainment tonight. I haven't been up this late for over 20 years. I gotta go to bed now and rest up for another day of reading your ridiculous liberal propaganda. See you in a few hours friend!
The misuse and abuse to that term, by you and your ilk proves one thing and one thing only....that you are indifferent to facts and the actual meanings of words and terms.
Unlike you, I know the reality of not only how important it is for the GOP candidate to beat the Dem presidential candidate, but why it is better to support someone who can do that and give me most of the things I want.
Principles mean less than nothing, when you lose. When you lose an election, you get exactly what you do NOT want and no, your life does NOT just then go on, as if nothing changed.
Amen!
And many fish here are taking the MSM bait.
Same here, good night friend!
Just because you are allowed to break all of FR's rules, with impunity, doesn't mean that you are going to get your dream candidate, in the real world.
LOL Youre a joke. Go peddle your crap elsewhere.
MM
Both Giuliani and Hunter agree that partial birth abortions can only be performed to save the life of the mother.
Post your source...of both candidates position.
MM
Not just you....anyone who refuses to vote for the GOP presidential candidate, in '08, no matter who he is, is giving aid and comfort to the Dems.
"I'm pro-choice. I'm pro-gay rights,Giuliani said. He was then asked whether he supports a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortions. "No, I have not supported that, and I don't see my position on that changing," he responded." -- CNN.com, "Inside Politics" Dec 2, 1999
"Wait until all those pesky people with religion learn more about Sir Rudy."
Won't matter one bit. Look at all the black churches that vote liberal. Look at all the catholics in Mass that vote liberal.
If those "pesky people with religion" decide to stay home then they get what they deserve. If they feel so strongly, then they will vote for Hunter and if he doesn't get the nomination, they will pull the lever for an "R" because they always did and always will.
"We keep on going back to the adage, "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough." After the primaries, we must absolutely put aside our differences and join forces on the basis that even if the winning candidate isn't perfect, at least he must be good enough.'
Bravo. Someone who gets it.
If that's the case then we might as well vote for Hillary because Rooty has less chance of getting my vote than Hillary does.
MY GOD!!! HE WAS THE MAYOR OF THE MOST LIBERAL CITY ON THE PLANET AND HE IS HOSTING A GAY & LESBIAN BREAKFAST!!!!
Yes, that was shouting.
["Giuliani is no more a Dem, than Reagan was, when he was president."]
Yeah. Uh huh. I was there. I saw Reagan, heard him, voted for him, and watched his presidency as it happened. And Rudy is no Reagan. Go ahead. Keep comparing Rudy w/ Ronaldus Magnus. You're really gonna make headway w/ that one./sarc
Oh. My. God. That's even worse than I thought.
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