Rep. Peter King Endorses Giuliani

NY Daily News via Political Insider ^ | March 8, 2007

[areafiftyone]

Rep. Peter King Endorses Giuliani

Rep. Peter King (R-NY), former Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has endorsed former Mayor Rudy Giuliani for President in 2008, according to the New York Daily News.

This is newsworthy because King co-chaired Sen. John McCain's New York campaign in 2000.

FROM THE NY DAILY NEWS:

Rudy Giuliani has wooed Rep. Peter King away from Sen. John McCain. King co-chaired McCain's New York campaign in the 2000 White House race, but the Long Island congressman says he'll now be lining up other House members for Giuliani. The ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Committee tells us he thinks Giuliani is "best qualified to fight terrorism." Giuliani and King got to know each other while serving as summer legal interns. "We'd both ride the Long Island Rail Road into Manhattan," recalls King. "Last Friday, we took Amtrak down to D.C. for a conservative conference. I said to myself, 'Forty years later, and I'm still riding the train with Rudy."

[Tarheel]

Hey that has a nice ring to it!

[areafiftyone]

Yup - Jeeze what a horror! (/sarcasm)

[seekthetruth]

"Awesome news! Peter King is one of my favorites because he always tells it like it is. Pulling him away from McCain is huge."

I would never vote for McCain, so King pulling away from him is fine with me. However, King's endorsement of Rudy just tells me that Kind is really a RINO!

[BillyBoy]

BREAKING NEWS!
RINO ENDORSES RINO!
B-B-B-B-arney Fwank sound-alike Peter King sez Rudy is Da Man

"You're talking about a group of individuals who are very hard-nosed and determined to get Bill Clinton.The impeachment managers are strikingly alike. All 13 are white, all 13 males, all 13 Christians, all 13 lawyers. Eight have been prosecutors. Average age 52. They, in many cases, live in an echo chamber. They believe that everyone has as bad of an opinion of Bill Clinton as they do. And the fact is the American people don't share their opinion"

King, a Republican... backed John McCain for the 2000 GOP nomination in 2000 even after ridiculing McCain's stance on campaign finance reform. Throughout his career, King has been one of the strongest and most outspoken supporters of the Irish Republican Army. During negotiations in 1998, King carried messages between the IRA and the British government. King was instrumental in convincing President Bill Clinton to grant a visa to Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams in 1994. Later that year, at Clinton's urging, King voted to support the federal Assault Weapons Ban. King ranks Bill Clinton as one of his closest political friends. In 1998, King was one of only a few House Republicans to vote against the impeachment of Clinton.

[Calpernia]

They are.

[DKNY]

Peter King is a Conservative, check his record. However, everyone supporting Rudy is a RINO according to you.

[BillyBoy]

When the #1 Clinton-supporter in the GOP is called "conservative", I know some fine folks have escaped the farm.

King is one of the top RINOs in the House and this has been well documented by conservative groups across the board for almost a decade. See for yourself:
http://www.salon.com/news/1998/12/cov_17newsc2.html

If a Clinton loving, pro-terrorist, gun-grabbing jerk like Peter King isn't a RINO, then there are no RINOs. King could only get three other Republicans in the entire House to jump on his "Save Clinton" bandwagon during impeachment. He is a shameless political whore who loves whoever happens to be "popular" at that given moment in time. He'd endorse Charlie Manson if it got him glowing praise from the media.

[garv]

Peter King on Rudy Giuliani.

More recently, Liz Trotta had this to say in the Washington Times (8/25/98): “Thirty years ago, Rep. Peter King, a GOP congressman from Long Island worked alongside Mr. Giuliani when they were interns in Richard M. Nixon’s law firm. In those days, Mr. King recalled, the mayor was a “radical left” supporter of activists like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown. “He didn’t think much of Republicans then,” said Mr. King, “except maybe Rocky” — former Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Citing the mayor’s stands on abortion and homosexual rights, Mr. King described Mr. Giuliani as “too liberal” and “too temperamental” to be a GOP presidential choice.

[Tarheel]

Instead, he appeared too scared to run against her.

The man was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. If he was scared of anything it was the frapping cancer. Scared of the Hildabeast?? ROTFLOLPIMP! The woman is The Hag from Hell!

[BillyBoy]

>> The Dems will go after him with everything they've got in 2008. Mejias was a weak candidate, but that's a very dangerous district for any Republican these days. Long Island is not a healthy place to be. He'll be gone after 2010, assuming the Dems take the Senate, given pending redistricting. <<

Good riddance, Pete.

Perhaps we should save this seat from being "vulnerable" in the first place by getting rid of his pompous Clinton loving @$$ in the primary. Conservatives promised to get a primary challenger against King in 2000. We're eight years overdue.

[DKNY]

RINO Peter King's voting record:

Voted NO on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (May 2005)

Voted YES on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions. (Apr 2005)

Voted YES on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)

Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mother’s life. (Oct 2003)

Voted YES on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (Feb 2003)

Rated 0% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)

Voted YES on prohibiting product misuse lawsuits on gun manufacturers. (Oct 2005)

Voted YES on prohibiting suing gunmakers & sellers for gun misuse. (Apr 2003)

Voted YES on decreasing gun waiting period from 3 days to 1. (Jun 1999)

Rated D by the NRA, indicating a pro-gun control voting record. (Dec 2003

[texicali]

bombs will beat a gun every single time

[DKNY]

Love it!!!...lol

[texicali]

they do get it out here:)

[PhiKapMom]

Exactly! About the time someone would draw a gun, the bomb would be exploded and it would be 1-0 bomb over gun!

[oceanview]

places like nassau county, are good examples of the kinds of suburbs that republicans do poorly in now, but should do better in. the narrow focus of the party causes this. and its the same in places like suburban philadelphia, and norther virginia (suburban DC). states like PA used to be an R state, then a swing state, now a solid Dem state. VA is moving in that direction, so is OH. if we don't have candidates who do better in these kinds of "metro-suburbs", we won't be able to win statewide in places that have them - as with PA, there just aren't enough votes in other parts of the states to makeup for blowouts in these suburban enclaves.

[aligncare]

Your point's correct, on the facts -- but not the characterization.

All I've seen is widening support and endorsements for Mr. Giuliani. Even Hailey Barbour, the popular governor of Mississippi, has spoken well of Mr. Giuliani.

Bill Simon the former California Republican gubernatorial nominee considered to be the conservative alternative to Schwarzenegger in the California primary, just joined Mr. Giuliani as Director of policy.

I have read where Mr. Giuliani has even been gaining support among conservative christians.

I don't think the term insular applies. Every candidate surrounds himself with friends and supporters from back home, people who know him best.

[BillyBoy]

I'm well aware of Peter King's "record", and although he has the right position on a few issues like abortion, he is in no way "conservative". Here's a sample of his "record":

- Representative King supported the interests of the Bread for the World 100 % in 2003.
- Representative King supported the interests of the National Council of La Raza 100 % in 2004.
- Representative King supported the interests of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence 66 % from 1988-2003
- Representative King supported the interests of the National Taxpayers Union 52 % in 2005.
- Representative King supported the interests of the NAACP 40 % in 2003-2004.
- Representative King supported the interests of the League of United Latin American Citizens 50 % in 2000.
- Representative King supported the interests of the Republican Liberty Caucus 48 % in 2004.
- Based on the results of a questionnaire the Gun Owners of America assigned Representative King a grade of D-

I never said "anyone" who supports Rudy is a RINO, the only one claiming such a ridiculous notion is whiners like you. There are a number of conservatives backing Rudy, such as Bill Simon.

King's endorsement of Rudy has nothing to do with him being a RINO, and is due to King endorsing whoever happens to be "popular" at the time. (King would happily be touting Tancredo or Hunter if it was to his politial advantage) What makes King a RINO is his "proven record" as a Clinton loving, pro-terrorist, gun-grabbing scumbag.

[texicali]

yup imagine that:)

[texicali]

yup imagine that:)