Posted on 03/04/2007 1:04:27 PM PST by Al Simmons
With the exception of one lone poster, I think this is one statement that 99% of Freepers will agree with.
But should he be nominated (which will not happen in 1000 years), yes, I would have to vote for him against Hitlary.
If 1,000 poll respondents were asked tomorrow to name everyone they knew of who was running for President, how many would even know Romney's name?
Of course the candidate with greater name recognition will have a better showing in the polls. Rudy Giuliani was canonized in the national news in 2001, so everyone knows his name. How many people even know that Mitt Romney is a governor someplace?
I believe that as the difference between Rudy Giliani and Mitt Romney become apparent, this will be good for Romney and bad for Giuliani.
Yet you allow Rudolph Giuliani's staff to use your website as their campaign headquarters. I don't see how that advances the Conservative agenda.
Are the Rudy-ites bouncing off the Coulter wake? Not buying it.
Then please don't put Rudy up against her because I can't vote for him. I am shocked at the support for Rudy on this site and amazed at the reasons offered for supporting him. The man has an almost svengali effect on people, much like Bill Clinton has.
- Rudy tossed Arafat out of a city sponsored celebrations saying, "I would rather not have someone who has been implicated in the murders of Americans there, if I have the discretion not to have him there”.
- Rudy did the same to Fidel Castro.
- When a Saudi prince donated millions to 9/11 relief efforts and later suggested that United States policy in the Middle East may have been partially responsible for the attacks, Rudy returned the money.
- Rudy refused to meet with racial arsonist Al Sharpton.
- Rudy as mayor was strong on law and order. Rudy said that "government exists above all to keep people safe in their homes and in the streets, not to redistribute income, run a welfare state, or perform social engineering". And Rudy backed this all up by going after both quality-of-life crimes and serious crimes. Total crime went down by some 64 percent during the Giuliani years, and murder went down 67 percent. Auto thefts went down on average about 80,000 per year.
- Rudy supported the police when the police had to enter and deal with Muslims at a mosque.
- Rudy closed down many porn shops across the city and specifically shutdown porn shops in residential neighborhoods.
- Rudy went after both low level and high level drug dealers for the first time in the cities history.
- Rudy had zero tolerance for quality of life crimes such as squeegee extortionists, graffiti vandals, panhandling and public urination.
- Rudy launched a welfare revolution, removing illegal recipients, cutting the rolls by 20% the first year alone and dropping the welfare rolls by 600,000 over the course of his plan.
- Rudy launched a work requirement program for the remaining welfare recipients. The NY Times called it slavery.
- Rudy constantly spoke out against illegitimacy and fatherless families. One of many things that Rudy said on the subject was the following: " If you wanted a social program that would really save these kids, . I guess the social program would be called fatherhood.
" - Rudy objected to affirmative action. Rudy ended the cities set-aside program for minority contractors.
- Rudy rejected the idea of lowering the job requirement standards for minorities and woman. - Rudy said. "it was unfair to expect middle-class kids to work their way through college by holding down jobs and going to classes while exempting students on welfare from working
. " - Rudy reformed the public school system and forced out liberal chancellors who wouldn't install his reforms.
- Rudy tried to privatize 5 of the cities worst public schools.
- Rudy was for school vouchers Rudy said, "The whole notion of choice is really about more freedom for people, rather than being subjugated by a government system that says you have no choice about the education of your child,".
- Rudy fought against public money for an art display that defiled Christ and he fought against other obscene so-called works of art.
- Rudy played hardball with city unions winning concessions from city workers that other mayors had failed to do.
- Rudy strong armed state leaders to merge the cities Housing Police and Transit Police into the NYPD saving the city hundreds of millions. Rudy did this by threatening to fire every housing and transit officer and rehire each as a city cop if legislative leaders did not go along.
- Rudy did the same with the city’s garbageman, many of whom worked only half days because the department was so overstaffed with union jobs. Rudy won $300 million in savings from them by threatening to contract out trash collection to private companies.
- Rudy cut or killed 23 levies and taxes, saving taxpayers $9.8 billion during his terms.
- Rudy cut NYC's top income-tax rate by 20.6%.
- Local NYC taxes on a family of four dropped 23.7% during Rudy's term.
- Rudy cut the commercial-rent tax.
- Rudy cut sales taxes, including taxes on clothing.
- Rudy cut the marriage penalty on taxpaying couples.
- Rudy cut taxes on commercial rents everywhere outside of Manhattan’s major business districts, and various taxes on small businesses and self-employed New Yorkers.
- Rudy's expenditure growth averaged 2.9% annually, while local inflation between January 1994 and December 2001 averaged 3.6%.
- Rudy privatized municipal assets.
- Rudy sold WNYC radio for $20 million, WNYC-TV for $207 million, and NYC's share of the U.N. Plaza Hotel for $85 million.
- Rudy divested the City from the New York Coliseum adding $345 million to city coffers.
- Rudy let the private Central Park Conservancy manage Central Park.
- Rudy cut NYC's hotel tax from 6% to 5%. Consequently, hotel tax revenues increased from $135 million in Fiscal Year 1995 to $239 million in FY 2001.
- When asked if Rudy would raise taxes after 9/11 Rudy said that would be "a dumb, stupid, idiotic, and moronic thing to do.
" - A quote from Rudy on his economic philosophy: “City government should not and cannot create jobs through government planning. The best it can do, and what it has a responsibility to do, is to deal with its own finances first, to create a solid budgetary foundation that allows businesses to move the economy forward on the strength of their energy and ideas. After all, businesses are and have always been the backbone of New York City.
” - Construction permits increased by more than 50% in the city per year during Rudy's terms.
- Tourism increased 50% in the city per year during Rudy's terms.
- City jobs increased by 430,000 to an all time high of 3.72 million during Rudy's terms.
- City personal income increased 50% during Rudy's terms.
- The percentage income that city residence paid in taxes declined from 8.8 to 7.3 percent during Rudy's terms.
- Unemployment in the city went form 10.3% to 5.1% during Rudy's terms.
- Rudy was an outstanding leader during the 9/11 crisis.
- Rudy has been a strong supporting in our WOT including supporting the mission in Iraq.
- Rudy was chosen by Ronald Reagan in 1981 as an Associate Attorney General placing him in the third highest position in the Reagan's DOJ.
- In 1983, Rudy was appointed by Reagan to be U.S. Attorney for the SD of NY. In that position, Rudy amassed 4,152 convictions including the heads of NY's so-called "Five Families". Rudy also prosecuted terrorists and illegal immigrants.
You are despicable.
L
"Rudy is a liar and a fraud.
You're supporting a liar and a fraud."
Now Lurker that is not fair to point out what Rudy has actually said and then use it against him and his supporter. :-)
Okay go ahead, I like it.
"A principled conservative is one who does not 'shift in the wind'."
Why then, should we principled conservatives, "shift in the wind," to vote for this liberal?
I agree with everything you've written; however, there are several who FULLY support major portions of his liberal social agenda (i.e. abortion, homosexual marriage).
As for the talking point that Rudy is so necessary for the war on terror, why should we believe that any Republican will not be just as vigilant in the war?
Should be interesting to see if they really do throw a fit and don't vote. This time if they don't vote, there will be other groups lining up to fill that seat at the table! They better think long and hard and not pull a stunt like they did in 2006 because they will lose their seat at the table when we win in Nov 2008 without their support if we have to. I mean that WE as part of the Republican Party and as part of Team Rudy both of who I am proud to be a member.
Not as colorful as the first comment, but nevertheless quite accurate.
someone has to be the nominee. Gingrich and Fred Thompson are on the fence. at some point, we have to play the hand being dealt.
I surely won't.
True or false: Rudy Giuliani filed lawsuits against gun manufacturers and distributors without any legal basis, for the purpose of imposing harmful legal expenses on those manufacturers and distributors.
True or false: Rudy Giuliani, as mayor, sought to prevent any action from being taken against criminal invaders from Mexico who were in his city.
IMHO, there's plenty more to dislike about the guy, but the former makes him absolutely unacceptable and the latter severely undermines any claims he may have about fighting the WOT.
Reforming, phasing-out, or eliminating socialist institutions such as Social Security and Medicare is going to require real, honest leadership. If Rudy cannot lead on traditional issues that have kept the Republic functioning, then there's no need to believe that he'll lead on fiscal and national security matters as well. Even Rudy's so-called vaunted "leaderhip" will be no match for the millions of Americans and Democrat politicians who are completely dependent on these programs.
Absolutely. As I have said many times before, the independents will put Rudy over the top.
He wants my guns, so he will not get my vote.
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