[garv]

Nasty, brutish and short

[sono]

And just what NYC needed to resuscitate the Big Apple from the morass that was the Dinkins Administration.

[pogo101]

Meh, mixed feelings. Perhaps NYC could have been (begun to be) turned around by a personally NICER mayor. Perhaps, however, it was like The Joker said in the Batman movie, "This town needs an enema!"

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Gee, how awful it would be to have a President that would tell off intellectually dishonest reporters...Yeah, that would really suck.

[Vigilanteman]

Just a small sample of the crap that's going to be thrown at him as the election nears. And it will take just one on-camera eruption for the entire campaign to implode.

Contrast this to Romney's smooth handling of the smarmy reported who claim "I represent the people" to which he responded with a classic but polite put-down as follows: "No you do not. You represent the media. I represent the people."

[Screamname]

Yeah he`s got his faults but I just loved the way he kicked Arafat in the ass. "Get tha hell outta my city ya bum!" Wish he was Mayor when those two other bums Chavez and Pres of Iran, Mahmoud Im-a-mad-idiot were here for their UN arse kissing. It drove me up the wall how those two got their rear ends kissed, police escorts, streets shut down, blocks closed around their hotels like they were Royalty. Screw that, Guliani would have set them up in the Bowery with crackheads where they belong.

[romanesq]

Yes, most WAPO reporters are all those things but that's besides the point.

The reason liberals hate Giuliani is he proved all their theories wrong. He took their ideas of decay and threw them in the wastebasket.

They will never forgive how he made them look like jackasses. Now Rudy may not be the best guy in the world, but he's leagues ahead of the whining liberals who makeover NYC into a festering hole.

At that point, liberals told us NYC was ungovernable (so we should get used to it). The only salvation for us was they were taking care of the poor downtrodden masses who would cut our throats if we didn't provide the liberal solution.

Rudy ended all that. And then he ended them as a political force in NYC.
They were just laughingstocks after Rudy got down with their treasured projects.

[oceanview]

yes, he fights back - so the media describes him as "thin skinned", because he would dare speak up.

they prefer republicans who roll over.

[flashbunny]

anybody who thinks this isn't true of giuliani should research ny magazine v city of new york - rudy lost the case on first amendment grounds. Basically tried to deny NY magazine ad space on city buses because their ad poked fun at him.

[hosepipe]

[.. As Mayor, Rudy Had Thin Skin ..]

And thinner scalp.. When the combover went anything conservative went too..

[Eva]

I wish some other Republicans would show some guts and speak out against the Democrat attack machine. This is actually a plus for Rudy. I'm tired of whimps.

[Gop1040]

"Nasty, brutish and short"

You forgot to add........."from another liberal hack".

Google Jonathan Capehart and see what he's about.

[areafiftyone]

The same media who howled with disapproval When Rudy kicked out Arafat.
The Same media who howled their disapproval when Rudy called Castro a Murderer and wouldn't invite him to a city dinner.
The same media who howled their disapproval when he took on the Virgin Mary Elephant dung painting.
The same media who howled their disapproval when he took on the Black Female Christ in The Last Supper painting.

I SAY GOOD FOR RUDY!

[Cicero]

Thing skin? No. Rudy is a fighter, and he hits back.

[Reagan Man]

Giuliani was spitting fire over my column in that morning's New York Daily News, in which I likened his second term to the sitcom "Seinfeld." The thesis was summed up in the first paragraph: "The show has been reincarnated as Mayor Giuliani's second term, which has turned into a term about nothing."

LOL

[Gop1040]

"Nasty, brutish and short"

BTW, a convenient fact that was omitted by Mr. Capehart is that the accused police officers in the unfortunate Diallo incident were all acquitted by a jury.

[WalterSkinner]

Nasty, brutish and short

..remember Ross Perot?

[Calpernia]

>>>>Giuliani ripped me apart, calling my column "intellectually dishonest," among other things.

What is his FR Nic?

[Calpernia]

>>>>He had no qualms about using government to settle a score.

Hey! That sounds familiar!

Yes, it's his site, his rules, and he manages it; however, once this site is turned into a one candidate promoting site, with all other views banned, then the LLC nature of the rules come into play and FR becomes an illegal political arm of that candidate.

265 posted on 03/06/2007 11:10:44 PM EST by nopardons

[CharlesWayneCT]

Rudy or the opinion piece? Or both?

[wolfcreek]

Rudy was a fed prosecutor, of course he's an asshole.