Posted on 03/10/2007 5:42:54 AM PST by veronica
For the moment, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani sits on double-digit leads over the rest of the Republican presidential-hopeful pack in several national polls.
Why?
"It appears to me that Rudy is going aggressively after the conservative vote," says Pennsylvania Republican and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum. "He has not ceded that ground to anybody."
Santorum, known nationally for his social conservatism, says Giuliani does a good job of reminding people how he governed as a conservative on crime, welfare and taxes in New York City.
Santorum also believes Giuliani has scored points on social issues with his comments about judges and Supreme Court justices.
"Rudy understands that, on those issues, the courts are where conservatives have been losing the battle," he says. "If he is going to be appointing judges in the Scalia-Thomas (mold), then he is sending a very positive message to conservatives that he understands the importance of having the Constitution interpreted for what it says and not for what people want it to be."
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Horse puckey! Santorum was toast anyway. I like the guy and disliked his endorsement of Spector, but let's not get carried away. He was one of the most influential conservative voices in the Senate. The MSM/Lib party had it out for him in a big way.
For conservative purists to think they defeated a true conservative because he was not 100% is delusional.
"A perfect description of the anti-Rudy obsessives who come on every thread, insult the other side, and post the same stupid photos they have been posting since day one."
Pot...kettle...black...get it?
mmmmm...not so much...
Great Presidents have the ability to communicate and to inspire America. That is how Ronald Reagan transformed an America curled up in the fetal position after Jimmy Carter into to the future "Hyper-power" that America became and was up until two years or three years ago.
Bush has failed miserably as a communicator.
Lincoln's list of military disasters, one on the heels of the other, (First Bull Run, The Seven Days, Second Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg) literally fill entire history books. Yet, Lincoln had the leadership qualities to communicate to the nation why final victory must be achieved.
From Katrina to Iraq, Bush has allowed the Democrat Copperheads to falsely communicate to the nation that he has utterly failed and Bush has done very little to defend himself.
I live in an extremely liberal town on the Left Coast and, after Katrina, a liberal coworker started going off on how Bush had totally failed during Katrina. I calmly explained to her about storm surge phenomenon, about New Orleans being under sea level, about the levees being rated to withstand a Category 3 storm, about Katrina being predicted as a Category 5 storm, about the Southern Louisiana Evacuation Plan and how that plan was totally ignored by the Democrat Mayor of New Orleans and the Democrat Governor of Louisiana leaving tens of thousands of low income people stranded in a death trap as hundreds of buses stayed parked in neat rows instead of being used as the Evacuation Plan stated they should be used.
Three days later, my liberal coworker stated she had Googled the issue on the Internet, thanked me for the information, stated that I had opened up her eyes to the truth of the matter and stated that what those Democrats had dome was inexcusable. .
Communicating the truth about Katrina to the American public about Katrina was not my job.
It was the President's job.
However, George W. Bush has yet to do that communicating and it has being his failure to do so in regards to Katrina and in regards to the strategic disaster that an Iraq bug-out will bring that has now given us a Democrat Congress and a demoralized Home Front that may very well lose America a strategecally vital war that, by any historical standard, has already been won.
You may be "the President's best friend" but my Number One loyalty is not to Bush or to any President. My Number One loyalty is to America and Bush's pathetic job in using the Bully Pulpit to inspire and lead America as Lincoln and Reagan did has cost America dearly.
Exactly. Of the candidates in the mix now, WHO HAVE A CHANCE OF WINNING, Rudy is the only choice. That could change. But he's kickin' in the polls among a wide swath of voters, for obvious reasons. That cannot be denied. NO goofball photo or spam changes that.
'scuse me a minute. I have to sit down.
The spin on that post was...incredible.
If I remember correctly, Rudy campaigned for Santorum this last election cycle as well.
"The anti-Rudy crowd here reminds me of a bunch of democRATS."
Hello mcfly?
Rudy reminds US of a democrat.
Alice,
by the way if DH wins the nomination. I'll throw my support behind him 100%.
I just think Rudy will have a much better chance of winning battle ground states like Ohio,Penn. and even some New England states like Maine,NH.
I am afraid the left wing media will paint DH as just another "Bush".
If a democrat gets in the WH we will never see America again.
FWIW, Hannity wsa complaining about all the photos he sees of Rudy in drag.
Looks he he really does read FR.
"I hope he runs. He's a far more realistic choice than Duncan Donuts."
I'm not a Hunter fan, in fact I don't like ANY of the declared candidates. But Duncan Donuts? That is very childish.
From now on I will respond to your posts about Rudy by calling him Benito Giuliani, or Rudy Mussolini.
Rudy was in PA for Santurum at least three times, IIRC.
I wouldn't say Giuliani is the only choice. Romney is frequently underrated-- he is quick on his feet, has the looks, the charisma, and persuasiveness to be competitive. Thompson would be another possible candidate I consider competitive.
But Hunter and Tancredo-- their supporters must be smoking weed or something. They have as much of a chance of winning as Alan Keyes would.
KKKlinton was popular too. It did not make him right.
Truth exists apart from the oohs and ahs of adoring masses.
No. I DON'T go on threads about McCain and act like spoiled child, ranting and raving, comparing him to Hitler, etc. I DON'T fling mud obsessively at Duncan Hunter, who has NO chance of getting the nod. I post pro-Rudy articles, and state my reasons for supporting him, even as the anti-Rudy gang continues it's jihad against him. I have not engaged in that sort of behavior against candidates I don't support.
Of the candidiates who demonstrate, at this time, the ability to beat Hillary and/or Obama, he is the only choice, but I agree that it is far too early to dismiss Romney.
But Hunter and Tancredo-- their supporters must be smoking weed or something. They have as much of a chance of winning as Alan Keyes would.
Ain't that the truth. :)
Thanks for posting the evidence of how out-of-touch Rick Santorum is, and why he is no longer a Senator from Pennsylvania.
"I post pro-Rudy articles, and state my reasons for supporting him, even as the anti-Rudy gang continues it's jihad against him."
The only reason I've read so far is that you think he can win?
And now you compared conservatives to jihadists? Are you sure you aren't really Helen Thomas or Arianna Huffington?
"I have not engaged in that sort of behavior against candidates I don't support."
I'm not a big Duncan Hunter fan, but you called him "Duncan Donuts" so get off your high horse.
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