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 ...
I can see it's just killing the increasingly irrelevant ragers that Newt and now Santorum have praised Rudy and talked about how he governed as a conservative. ROFL
Yep...
They are freaking out at Rudy's frontrunner status and it will only get worse as time goes on.
You'll likley not ever see a true conservative in the WH again....You can thank the incompetent over his head bumbling stumbling idiot that now presides there now, for that.
Rudy is the only shot we have at the WH.
Rudy knows how to lead the whole country not just some bible thumpers from KY.
I went on a Hunter thrad to ask a question and a few times to ish him luck but like you, I wouldn't dream of going on a Hunter thread and posting links to Rudy's frontrunner status.
It's immature and the freepers involved in doing it don't even have the good sense to know what fools they look like.
In the primaries I will vote for the candidate that promises to STOP illegal immigration and to WIN in Iraq.
Those two issues are so far above in importance that every other issue appears as specks to the eye of the EAGLE that soars the mountains of this land.
Yikes - I guess those typos are what I get for posting without my contacts.
Just yesterday I noticed how at one point there were four Guliani threads each with hundreds of hits, and two Hunter threads each with about 20 hits (by about six-seven people). The Duncanites are too busy to support their own threads.
There was one Duncan thread last night that was different...where his big spending voting record was revealed and a lot of interesting things came out about his penchant for fat envelopes of money from defense contractors.
Indeed, in one recent poll, majorities of Republicans who were informed of Giuliani’s views on social issues said that they were either minor issues or no issues at all; only 16% said that they wouldn't vote for him after being informed of these views.
In the online GOP Bloggers poll, Giuliani is consistently one of the few candidates to end up with a net positive acceptability rating. These internet denizens are well-informed, and overwhelmingly self-describe as conservative (78% self-describe as 7 or higher on a 10-scale of conservatism). If these people can support Rudy, anyone can.
Human Events, Is Giuliani the Republican Peyton Manning,
2/6/07
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780060/posts
Giuliani-Santorum 2008?
I guess that would make Santorum a commie RINO!
Answer: Contrary to popular belief, evangelicals (who comprise the party's base) are fully capable of chewing gum and voting at the same time.
No, evangelicals haven't abandoned the faith-based domestic agenda that brought them to the polls for Bush in 2004. But, in wartime, they have other concerns as well.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796618/posts
He hssn't gone after it at all yet.
To my astonishment, frankly.
There are no absolutes in politics. It ebbs and flows. One event can radically alter the landscape, as 9-11 did for Rudy. And I think history will treat GWB much kinder than your post gives him credit for.
Take a good look at photos of Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo. Don't they both look like the guy who sold your aunt that used Chevy lemon?
There is no et tu. Santorum is saying Giuliani is doing a good job shopping for the conservative vote. That is all that is said here.
Unlike shopping for defense industry contributions?
>>>>Santorum said that Rudy governed as a conservative?
No, Santorum said Rudy does a good job REMINDING people he governed as a conservative.
There is a difference in that statement.
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