Posted on 03/20/2007 6:13:16 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) leads Arizona Senator John McCain (R) by eighteen points in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination. Giuliani now attracts support from 33% of those likely to vote in a Republican Primary. That’s consistent with his level of support for three of the past four weeks, but down from a spike to 37% last week.
McCain slipped another point last week and is supported by just 15% of those surveyed. That is the lowest level of support measured so far for a man recently was presumed to be the frontrunner for the nomination. Thirteen percent (13%) now support former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) while 10% prefer former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R). No other Republican attracts more than 2% support at this time.
Rasmussen Reports releases updated polling data on the Republican nominating contest every Tuesday. Results for the Democrats are updated on Mondays.
Among the 31% of Likely Primary voters who identify themselves as Very Conservative, Gingrich has a statistically insignificant lead over Giuliani. Romney is third among the Very Conservative while McCain is fourth.
Those who identify themselves as Somewhat Conservative prefer Giuliani over McCain by a 37% to 17% margin. Among political moderates in the GOP, 42% say they would vote for Giuliani, 20% for McCain, and 6% for Romney.
A separate survey found that 50% of all Americans voters would definitely vote against Gingrich if he is on the general election ballot. Just 20% would definitely vote for him.
Giuliani is the only candidate in either party who more people would definitely vote for than against. He also currently leads all Democrats in General Election match-ups. This includes Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Barack Obama, former Senator John Edwards, Governor Bill Richardson, and Senator Joe Biden.
McCain is essentially even with Clinton, Obama, and Edwards while leading Richardson and Biden.
Romney trails Clinton, Obama, and Edwards. Other GOP hopefuls also trail Democrats in General Election polling.
The current survey is based upon national telephone interviews with 599 Likely Republican Primary Voters conducted March 12-15, 2007. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
See a summary of all match-ups along with favorability ratings and perceptions of the candidates’ ideology. A summary is also provided for Democratic contenders.
Rudy believes homosexuality is good and normal. Fred does not.
Rudy has marched in numerous gay pride parades, even with NAMBLA. Fred has not.
Rudy has offered to dress up in drag to raise money for homosexual activists. Fred has not.
And, poll out last week stated that 57% of Republicans wanted more choices in the Presidential race, revealing extreme disconnect with the current crop of candidates.
What true conservative would find Rudy conservative enough give his record. He supports or has supported:
Gun-control laws
The idea of man-made global warming
Guest worker programs for illegals while filing lawsuits in favor of illegals
Taxpayer-funded abortion while donating money to pro-abortion groups like NARAL
Hate crime legislation
The appointment of leftist judges as mayor of New York
The homosexual agenda (he marched in every single gay pride parades in New York, even in one including NAMBLA, and has even offered to cross-dress to raise money for militant homosexual groups
This type of ignorance that has resulted in Rudy doing so well in the polls.
No, Fred Thompson is a Reagan conservative while Giuliani supports or has supported the following:
Gun-control laws
The idea of man-made global warming
Guest worker programs for illegals while filing lawsuits in favor of illegals
Taxpayer-funded abortion while donating money to pro-abortion groups like NARAL
Hate crime legislation
The appointment of leftist judges as mayor of New York
The homosexual agenda (he marched in every single gay pride parades in New York, even in one including NAMBLA, and has even offered to cross-dress to raise money for militant homosexual groups.
I must be par for the course, then. There are a few I am interested in, but I don't know these people well.
Rudy's Right Record
Giuliani’s pre-9/11 performance should ease conservatives’ doubts.
By Deroy Murdock, National Review
The same Beltway experts who anointed Senator John McCain (R., Ariz.) the GOP frontrunner, even as he under-polled fellow presidential contender Rudolph W. Giuliani, now parrot equally dodgy talking points: When Republicans meet “the real Rudy,” they will abandon New York’s former mayor like cattle fleeing a burning barn. Then, the wobbly Washington wisdom continues, Giuliani’s three marriages, and his less-than-solidly right-wing views on gays, guns, and gametes will torpedo his buoyant presidential hopes.
These seers now detect unhappiness with the GOP aspirants. They cite a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll in which 26 percent of Republican primary voters were dissatisfied with Giuliani, McCain, and former Massachusetts governor Willard Mitt Romney, among others. However, 56 percent called these choices satisfactory. This lines up with the 57 percent of conservative Republicans who preferred Giuliani, versus 31 percent for McCain. More broadly, Republicans backed Giuliani 38 percent to McCain’s 24, former House speaker Newt Gingrich’s 10, Romney’s 8, and 2 percent each for Kansas Senator Sam Brownback and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.
But what if voters like Giuliani better once they understand his pre-9/11 performance? Educating Republicans on his complete mayoral record — and soon — may be Giuliani’s best bet for extinguishing lingering grumbling about his candidacy.
I recently visited Baltimore, Charlotte, Richmond, Salem, Oregon; Seattle, and Johnstown, Pennsylvania, mainly to deliver speeches sponsored by Young America’s Foundation. I conversed with conservative activists, College Republican leaders, university professors, and think-tank scholars, among others.
These Americans vividly remember Giuliani emerging from the ashes of September 11, like a latter-day Churchill rising from the rubble of the London Blitz. However, these involved and informed citizens knew startlingly little about Giuliani’s other mayoral achievements:
Through robust policing, Giuliani drove overall crime down 56.1 percent, while chopping homicides 66.6 percent, from 1,946 in 1993 to 649 in 2001.
Abortions on Giuliani’s watch dropped 16.9 percent, according to figures from the New York State Office of Vital Statistics. It reports 103,997 legal abortions in New York City in 1993 and 86,466 in 2001. Abortions fell more quickly under the pro-choice Giuliani than they did nationwide. The pro-choice Guttmacher Institute tracked 1,495,000 abortions across the U.S. in 1993 versus 1,303,000 in 2001. This 12.8 percent national decrease lagged the swifter fall-off in local abortions during Giuliani’s tenure. Meanwhile, taxpayer-funded Medicaid abortions plunged 22.9 percent under Giuliani. Giuliani’s pro-choice rhetoric seemed to accompany an official hands-off policy that otherwise did not promote abortion.
Gotham’s foster-care population fell 38 percent as Giuliani helped loving families adopt 17,804 boys and girls.
By fighting fraud and finding work for legitimate beneficiaries, Giuliani cut welfare rolls 58 percent, starting two years before federal welfare reform. Giuliani renamed welfare offices “Job Centers.”
Giuliani privatized 23,625 previously confiscated, city-owned dwellings, 78 percent of supply, benefiting family and individual homeowners and tenants.
Pursuant to his “One Standard. One City” campaign slogan, Giuliani dumped Gotham’s 20 percent set-aside and 10-percent overbid bonus for minority and female contractors. “The whole idea of quotas to me perpetuates discrimination,” he explained. He initiated this on his 24th day in office, far exceeding any colorblindness legislation Congress even debated during the 12-year “Republican Revolution.”
Similarly, Giuliani shuttered the David Dinkins-era Offices of African-American/Caribbean Affairs, Asian Affairs, European-American Affairs, Gay Community Affairs, Immigrant Affairs, Jewish Community Affairs, and Latino Affairs.
Giuliani’s $10 million Charter School Improvement Fund helped 3,286 pupils in 17 new charter schools, up from $0, zero students, and zero campuses in 1997. He ended tenure for school principals, so slackers could be sacked. He also stopped social promotion; students needed to complete grade-level work to matriculate.
Giuliani ended “open admissions” at the City University of New York. Mean SAT scores for incoming freshmen rose from 863 in 1993 to 1049 in 2001, a 21.6 percent improvement. Stricter entrance requirements did not impede minorities, as critics ominously predicted. First-time freshmen enrollment at CUNY’s seven senior colleges grew from 7,104 in fall 1999 to 9,576 in fall 2006, up 34.8 percent. Black-student arrivals simultaneously increased from 1,655 to 1,765 (up 6.65 percent). Hispanic freshmen jumped 37.1 percent, from 1,771 to 2,428. Meanwhile, blacks earned 5.15 percent more bachelor degrees, from 3,843 in 1999-2000 to 4,041 in 2005-2006. For Hispanics, the equivalent figures were 2,456 and 3,032 — a 23.45 percent advancement.
In September 1999, Giuliani loudly wondered why taxpayers helped finance a Brooklyn Museum exhibition that featured a painting of the Virgin Mary decorated with a dried chunk of elephant dung. Photos of vaginas and recta, clipped from adult magazines, also festooned artist Chris Ofili’s depiction of Jesus’ mom.
“The city shouldn’t have to pay for sick stuff,” Giuliani said. Often decried by Giuliani critics as an attack on free speech, he merely asked why such a provocative work could not appear in a private museum, without government subsidy.
Meanwhile, ex-pornography mecca Times Square now welcomes families, tourists, and locals for fully clothed musicals like The Lion King and Mary Poppins. Under Giuliani, the city prohibited sex shops within 500 feet of schools, churches, and residential communities.
Beyond these socially conservative victories, Giuliani governed as a Reaganesque supply-sider:
Giuliani scrapped three taxes and slashed 20 others, lowering Gotham’s tax burden by 17 percent and saving individual and business taxpayers $9.8 billion. A family of four earning $50,000 saw its local taxes plummet 23.7 percent.
While inflation averaged 3.9 percent, Giuliani’s average spending grew 2.9 percent annually. If the departed GOP Congress were that fiscally disciplined, the next federal budget would be $2.275 trillion — $625 billion cheaper, Cato Institute fiscal analyst Stephen Slivinski calculates.
While hiring 12 percent more cops and 12.8 percent more teachers, Giuliani sliced other positions 17.2 percent. Overall, municipal headcount fell 3.1 percent.
These policies helped cut local unemployment from 10.4 percent in 1993 to 5.7 percent in 2001. Tourist arrivals rose 32 percent in that period, while the Big Apple’s population grew 9.3 percent. People who came stuck around, and those already here stopped evacuating, as they were doing before Giuliani Time. Not insignificantly, the personal incomes of New Yorkers ballooned 53 percent during Giuliani’s tenure.
Rudy got this done thanks largely to a management style that he described Wednesday at a $2 million Manhattan fundraiser: “I’m impatient and single-minded about my goals.”
Giuliani’s legacy has earned him the endorsements of such screaming liberals as President Bush’s former solicitor general, Ted Olson, as well as Senator David Vitter (R., La.) and Congressman Pete Sessions (R., Texas) — both proud owners of 100 percent ratings from the National Right to Life Committee.
Before Giuliani’s enemies caricature him as a divorce-driven, abortion-peddling, gun-grabbing transvestite, he should familiarize Republicans with his mayoral accomplishments. From Westwood to Washington’s echo chamber, Rudy Giuliani and his supporters should specify how he rescued America’s largest left-wing city through Reaganite social and economic reforms.
— Deroy Murdock is a New York-based columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution.
"Gun-control laws" Mayors enforce the laws on the books.
"The idea of man-made global warming" Typical distortion of what he said on this matter. What he said was that GW was widely accepted among scientists which is TRUE. Then went on to make a lot of sense by saying that even if it were not true we should be trying to reduce pollution which is claimed to lead to GW since they are negatives in any case. THEN he proceded to drive the stake through the environmentalist balloon by saying that the answer to the problem is moving to Nuclear energy. THAT is the last thing an environazi wants to hear.
Most of your other complaints are either equally distorted, of little significance or guilt by association.
That is a greater threat than al Queda since it prevents us from having the American people on board in dealing with it. Being able to turn a tremendous victory in Iraq into a defeat in the minds of the dumbasses is its most astounding show of power since Watergate.
Guiliani's position on global warming is LIBERAL. What about this don't you understand?
"I do believe there's global warming, yes,'' said Giuliani, in response to reporters' questions following his talk to the Churchill Club. "The big question has always been how much of it is happening because of natural climate changes and how much of it is happening because of human intervention.'' But "the overwhelming number of scientists now believe that there is significant human cause,'' he said, adding the debate on the existence of global warming "is almost unnecessary ... because we should be dealing with pollution anyway.''
That means he supports radical environmental regulations that will harm the economy because on the absurd notion that man in anyway is causing global warming.
You can't even comprehend what you post and I should listen to YOU?
"I do believe there's global warming, yes,..." There is little dispute that the world has been warming since the little Ice Age ended 400 yrs. ago.
"The big question has always been how much of it is happening because of natural climate changes and how much of it is happening because of human intervention." Another indisputably CORRECT comment.
"'the overwhelming number of scientists now believe that there is significant human cause,' he said, adding the debate on the existence of global warming 'is almost unnecessary ... because we should be dealing with pollution anyway.'" Those statements are also ENTIRELY true. We should be trying to wean our nation off oil as an energy source for more reasons than just the environment.
Your post showed that what I said was ENTIRELY correct and that you distorted what he said yet you don't even know it.
"That means he supports radical environmental regulations that will harm the economy because on the absurd notion that man in anyway is causing global warming." That absurd statement cannot be derived from ANY of the comments your posted. He did NOT suggest that man is causing the warming but that it doesn't MATTER since we should be reducing the pollutants CLAIMED to be contributing to global warming.
Now I don't know if you really cannot understand what was said or it you do and are willing to LIE about it. But in either case you are FALSIFYING the point he was making.
I perfectly comprehended the nonsense you posted. You believe that 1) Because Bush has sold out conservatives on global warming that conservatives should accept the fact that Giuliani would do the same and 2) And, that because the majority of environmentalists whackos (the same fools that were promoting global cooling in the 1970s) believe that mankind has something to do with the minor increase in temperature that conservatives should accept the fact RINO Rudy believes it.
Further, you believe it is a good idea for conservatives to sellout 80% of what they believe in order to defeat Hillary. That strategy is brain dead. Electing RINOs to office -- Christie Todd Whitman, Arnold Schwartzenkennedy and Michael Bloomberg -- has been a disaster every time it has been tried.
Conservatives can't win of alleged "conservatives" are dumb and deluded enough to elect a liberal to office. Eight years of a liberal Republican and or Democrat is worse than four years of Hillary Clinton.
Your misrepresented what Giuliani said and I showed you where and how. Didn't matter and you just yammer on as though I hadn't.
Then you go and brazenly post LIES for which there is NO proof about what I believe.
Those you consider "conservatives" are shrinking fast and becoming more insignificant in political impact because they are becoming too fanatical for the American people. Fanatics and extremists do NOT win National elections. Never have here.
But never fear Fred will save the day no doubt.
Further, he praised his fellow RINO Arnold Schwartenzkennedy's liberal policies to stop FURTHER proving me right -- that Giuliani is a liberal that would enact extreme environmental policies that harm the economy to deal with it:
(CNSNews.com) - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani told a Silicon Valley business group on Monday that he "definitely'' believes in global warming, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. He also praised Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for being a "progressive'' leader on the environment and calling for immigration policies that welcome "people who make contributions" to America's economy.
The only one lying here is phony conservatives like you that are trying to peddle off a liberal Republican as something he isn't.
With "conservatives" like you, we don't need any liberals.
"I do believe there's global warming, yes. The big question has always been how much of it is happening because of natural climate changes and how much of it is happening because of human intervention. The overwhelming number of scientists now believe that there is significant human cause."
That PROVES my statement 100% accurate and proves you're the one doing the spinning here.
What that proves is that you do not comprehend what is said. Rudy states the FACT that there is global warming going on then he refers to the dispute over what part of that warming is due to humans and says scientists say there is a human component. BUT Rudy never says he agrees but goes on to state that IT DOES NOT matter we should be reducing pollution ANYWAY no matter which side is correct.
This is not difficult to understand and is clearly stated in the quote you post. Why are you having such difficulty in understanding this? Could it be that your urge to slander Rudy prevents you from actually understanding what is said?
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