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As Mayor, Rudy Had Thin Skin
Cincinnati Post ^ | March 7, 2007 | Jonathan Capehart

Posted on 03/07/2007 1:00:20 PM PST by garv

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To: garv

I saw this piece in the Newark (NJ) Star Ledger this morning. I figured that Spiff or one of his minions would post it on FR. I didn't think that I would get a Rudy ping with this tidbit.

Rudy is a tough guy. It is what it is. And as that great poet and philosopher Popeye said "I am what I am and that's all I am."

I lived in NYC when Rudy was mayor. Met him a few times. We didn't discuss federal funding for Embryonic Stem Cell research. The 45 second conversation at Yankee Stadium generally involved some handshakes and comments about Andy Pettitte's great pitching performance. Seemed like a nice guy to me. He was a nice guy to everyone unless you were a criminal or a squeezie pest.


61 posted on 03/07/2007 2:57:18 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: LiveFree99

You are assuming that the Union Leader and the single-issue obsessives will get the better of Rudy -- that they'll look better than he will. Don't bet on it.


62 posted on 03/07/2007 2:57:40 PM PST by California Patriot
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To: garv
Rudy Had Thin Skin

Correction. Rudy took NO CRAP. Which is a major reason I love him.

63 posted on 03/07/2007 3:00:28 PM PST by M. Thatcher
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To: garv

Retrospectively, Harry Truman is held in pretty high regard by the electorate.


64 posted on 03/07/2007 3:02:45 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: LiveFree99
It won't last.

We keep hearing that.

What if you're wrong?

65 posted on 03/07/2007 3:03:31 PM PST by M. Thatcher
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To: daviddennis

You think people are being hard on Rudy here, you should have heard some of the things people here were saying about Bush during the 2000 primaries.


66 posted on 03/07/2007 3:04:28 PM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: California Patriot

I think that George Bush means well, but has had it too easy all his life, he had wealthy parents who sent to the best schools, where he was well liked and relatively successful. When he got into the business world, he had enough money behind him to allow him to dabble in various undertakings without worrying about where his next meal was coming from if he failed. I don't think that it ever occurred to him that people would hate him for being who he is and he still can't believe that he can't turn them around.


67 posted on 03/07/2007 3:04:45 PM PST by Eva
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To: California Patriot

What we've had in W. is a president who is right on all but a couple of our issues, but neither understands nor fights the Democrats. Give me a fighter any day....

GWB doesn't seem to understand that being nice to democrats is the same as being nice to islamofascists......they will both smile at you and then stab you in the back and stomp on you.


68 posted on 03/07/2007 3:04:57 PM PST by tkathy (Rudy is the latest phenomenenenenenenena)
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To: Eva

Yes, that's part of the problem. Another, I believe, is his particular understanding of what it means to be a Christian.


69 posted on 03/07/2007 3:06:33 PM PST by California Patriot
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To: Eva

Another problem is the country-club Republican mindset, which Bush Senior embodies and GWB has absorbed far more of than his fans think. The country-club Republican is not only a moderate at heart, but sees all politicians (except those on the "extremes") as being in the same business and having more in common than not. They look down on those who want their politicians to fight. It's pretty clear that W. thinks this way too.


70 posted on 03/07/2007 3:09:11 PM PST by California Patriot
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To: tkathy

Yes.


71 posted on 03/07/2007 3:09:54 PM PST by California Patriot
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To: areafiftyone

Ah, you bring back so many happy memories, area!

Remember when all the horribly racist Korean deli boycotts ended once Rudy took office?
Remember when all pograms involving innocent Jews in Brooklyn ended once Rudy took office?
Remember Rudy on his radio show taking on a negligent mom when she dared to blame him for her son's criminal career? (What a difference from Bloomberg who will only take positive phone calls!)
Remember when Act-Up thought better of entering St. Patrick's cathedral and physically attacking the sacred host during a Mass?
Remember when all the harrassing homeless crack-headed freaks were run out of town?
Remember riding on clean, graffiti-less subways?
Remember walking home at night (say about 12:00am on a summer night) and not coming across one mugger?

I have met Guiliani three times. Admittedly, in public places. He was always gracious to those who approached him. I'm sure he's as tough as nails behind the scene and I say he's the best!


72 posted on 03/07/2007 3:20:34 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: hosepipe

Rudy doesn't have a combover.

73 posted on 03/07/2007 3:23:01 PM PST by Rudder
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To: Rudder
[.. Rudy doesn't have a combover. ..]

Not anymore..

74 posted on 03/07/2007 3:38:14 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: garv
Forget about whether Rudy Giuliani is too moderate ...

Too moderate?

LOL!

That's not Rudy's problem!

75 posted on 03/07/2007 3:41:02 PM PST by airborne ("Why in the hell are we so afraid of being what we are?" HUNTER 2008!)
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To: romanesq
The reason liberals hate Giuliani is he proved all their theories wrong.

The reason liberal hate Rudy (and not all of them do) is because of the (R) after his name.

76 posted on 03/07/2007 3:43:04 PM PST by airborne ("Why in the hell are we so afraid of being what we are?" HUNTER 2008!)
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To: dfwgator; Dog Gone; BunnySlippers; Peach

Actually, in reading this thread, I get the notion that Rudy will be much tougher to defeat than the Duncan Hunter partisans think.

Why?

Because he's a tough guy, and one of the big perceived problems with Bush has been an insufficient toughness level.

Is Duncan Hunter as tough? Can he stand up to the bad guys? Frankly, I don't think there's anyone else in the Presidential candidate field with Rudy's degree of toughness.

In these tough times, a tough guy could go the distance.

And probably should.

D


77 posted on 03/07/2007 3:52:52 PM PST by daviddennis (If you like my stuff, please visit amazing.com, my new social networking site!)
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To: Eva

The reaction to this hit piece might be indicative of what is going to happen with all mean-spirited criticism of Rudy: it's going to backfire. Because he is a whole person, and not a politician upon whom everyone has sat, whatever he does is going to ring true to his personality, and those who get it will continue to get it.


78 posted on 03/07/2007 3:57:16 PM PST by firebrand
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To: garv
Giuliani could be vindictive. He had no qualms about using government to settle a score.

Sounds familiar...like Clinton.

79 posted on 03/07/2007 3:59:25 PM PST by pray4liberty (= >^..^< = Cat Lover)
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To: miss marmelstein

I'd forgotten all that, Miss Marmelstein! What a good memory you have, and all the more glad I am that Rudy is the frontrunner. Thanks for the march down memory lane.


80 posted on 03/07/2007 4:03:06 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons' pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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