Posted on 03/05/2007 1:11:47 PM PST by meg88
Today I have seen the future and that future is President Rudy.
It's not that I'm voting for Rudy, but the vacuum to be filled has been filled.
Consider this:
Rudy Giuliani and Tony Snow are the only guys who have had to have fire marshals bar people from entering due to overcapacity in a very big room.
In the green room, Giuliani's speech was the only one to cause everyone to sit down, shut up and watch.
More and more, the conservatives at CPAC are realigning. You have the Brownback folks, the Mitt folks, and the people who are headed quickly to Rudy. And you know what? They are more or less cheerful in doing it.
They've found the guy who knows he needs them to get in the door. They know the calculus Rudy has made -- the conservatives aren't selling out their principles; Rudy is telling them he won't impose his social view on them, but he'll keep them safe.
After all, abortion is not an issue when a terrorist has killed you.
Look for all guns to turn on Rudy now. He's been the frontrunner all along and now the rest of the pack realizes it.
The reception he got at CPAC should worry them.
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Get used to it Duncanistas.
I remember that too, I didn't see Snow's speech though, I got kicked out from where I was standing in the back of the room.
I am not on the Rudy Bandwagon. Actually, I'm not on anybody's bandwagon this early in the campaign season.
I was very, very impressed with his actions following 9/11, and he did a great job of cleaning up NYC during his term as mayor. However, his social stands and personal affairs make it very difficult to support him for higher office.
Nevertheless, it's easy enough to see why people are lining up behind him. Celebrity sells, and if you don't think so, just look at the most successful politician to call himself a Republican in California.
What the County needs is a candidate with character and vision. What it will probably elect is a celebrity. When it's time to mark my ballot, I'll probably have to choose the celebrity that I think will do the least damage.
When you figure out a way for the UNborn to vote then you might have a point.
Are you ready to concede that Hunter came out of the CPAC terribly weakened. I say his campaign is dead.
I am so thankful Ronald Reagan is not alive to see the end of his revolution.
Not going to happen. If we are going to have a gun grabbing pro-abortion gay sympathizer she won't be named Rudy.
Heaven help us.
Wasn't Rudy a part of the Reagan team?
With the Republicans and Democrats BOTH standing far left of Center 18 months before the election it will be the best opportunity since Perot for a 3rd party candidate to get a plurality of the vote.
Anything is possible, but I have to disagree with you. My SIL and her family were visiting from Illinois this weekend. They started talking about what a great president they thought Rudy would be. Knowing my SIL as I do, I asked her how she got past the abortion issue to support Rudy. Turns out she was not aware of his position. My BIL did not know how Rudy felt about civil unions.
By the time they left town this morning, they were no longer Rudy supporters. This is going to happen more and more everyday with an increasing number of people.
The election isn't for another 22 months. Nobody has "waited too long".
Howard Dean was inevitable 2 months before the Iowa Caucus.
In the Rudy vs. Hillary FR poll 69.3% of FReepers would vote for Rudy.
This is FAR higher than the percentage of the general electorate who would vote for him.
Not that this means you shouldn't vote for someone else in the primaries. I might not vote for Rudy in the primary but he will wipe the floor with any opponents in the Illinois primary.
Who could possibly beat him in the primaries North of the Mason-Dixon line? McCain is the only one with any chance and he is roundly hated especially here.
Was this at the same CPAC that voted for Romney in the straw?
At the moment, what amazes me is that a year before the primaries, so many people have already conceded the election to a liberal, and are just trying to figure out how to make it THEIR liberal instead of the other side's liberal.
Any way you cut it, we lose in '08. I'm very concerned that the conservative right is about to get pushed to margins in the same way the liberal left has been. i.e., welcome to the pay-no-mind list.
Forgive my ignorance, but we know who the frontrunners a year from now are?
"All of them prohibit abortion except to save the life of the mother." What humanitarians, I am shocked at such liberalism.
I saw no such thing. Wishful thinking on your part. You act like the first caucus is tomorrow.
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