Rudy Giuliani carries far too much baggage
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It is way too early and if Fred Thompson comes into the race look out Rudy! Too early the election is not until next year. People do not even care, only the guys running and the political pundits , and of course 24 hour news.
This proves that Gallup is out of touch. Or does it prove that Free Republic is out of touch?
It is way too early and if Fred Thompson comes into the race look out Rudy! Too early the election is not until next year. People do not even care, only the guys running and the political pundits , and of course 24 hour news.
I'll give ten times the amount to Fred Thompson that I gave to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
The Swiftees did their duty and have my eternal gratitude, but I'd much rather be for a real conservative than against a lying gigolo.
Not with this conservative Republican.
Hunter isn't in there. They're scare of Hunter?
Fuggeddaboutit Rudi.Tancredo's running.
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Years ago, Congressman and medical doctor Larry McDonald was working late in his Capitol Hill office when an old friend from medical school knocked on his door. Larry rose and greeted his guest and, after exchanging the usual pleasantries, looking a bit dejected, his friend slumped into a chair.
Larry asked him what was wrong.
With a little sigh, his friend said “Every few years, a group of us have to take time away from our practices and jobs and come all the way up here to meet with our representatives and senators to try to head off some new effort to trash the Constitution. And I often get the feeling that these guys up here just aren’t listening.”
Laughing, Larry offered, “You do know, don’t you, that there’s a better way?”
“What’s that, Larry?”
“You and your friends ought to get together at home and find a House candidates who shares your values and get behind him with support and resources and REPLACE those guys who aren’t listening. And if there is no candidate with those qualifications, go out and CREATE one – maybe even run yourself! And if, down the road, the new guy stops listening to you, work to replace HIM. The beauty of the House of Representatives is that the Founding Fathers designed it so that these folks have to come home every 24 months to get their tickets punched by the voters. And as we both know, the taxing and spending occur in the House. If the lower house refused to fund some liberty destroying or unconstitutional agency or program, it just won’t happen.”
“But, Larry, how do we convince the rest of the voters that the incumbent needs to be replaced?”
“That used to be a real challenge since poll after poll asking folks what they thought of congress usually got very negative answers. But when asked how they thought THEIR guys were doing up here got responses indicating that THEIR guys were doing a good job. There’s a new program called Tax Reform Immediately (TRIM) that uses only one yardstick for its quarterly rating of every member of congress – the United States Constitution.” (http://www.trimonline.org)
“Does it work, Larry?”
“One of my favorite stories about that is the 16 year-old paperboy out in the Midwest who every quarter paid to have 10,000 TRIM Bulletins printed and threw them on his route and in another 9,500 lawns in his district – FROM HIS BIKE! After 3 quarters of that, the incumbent was ousted for someone who more closely represented the views of the voters. On election night, the red-faced loser was interviewed on TV and, waving a TRIM Bulletin, sputtered that it was a right-wing plot to “get him.” It was GREAT TV.”
“A ‘plot’ by a 16 year-old paperboy.” Larry and his guest laughed.
“And it’s happening all over the country – even in my state, Georgia. My supporters down there are keeping the voters in the 7th informed about my votes up here. Since my only standard is the Constitution, they keep sending me back. So it works both ways: The good guys get reelected and the bad guys get sent home – or hang around as lobbyists.” Another chuckle.
“But what about the presidential election?”
“While important, if we had 300 or so decent representatives up here on the Hill, they’d take back much of the power they’ve shipped down to 1600 over the past years and the 4 year beauty contest would become far less important than it now is. A metaphor for these elections for president, representatives and senate is a 3 card Monte game: While everyone is focused on the card marked with the “P,” the “R” and “S” cards are largely ignored.”
Larry’s friend returned home, got his friends and neighbors up to speed with TRIM – and within a year, had a new and improved representative.
TRANSLATION: Conservatives would rather be relevant than right. The 2006 election results were extremely favorable to Giuliani because they woke up all Republicanns, conservatives and moderates, to the political reality that conservatism as a running platform in a general election is no longer a viable strategy. This poll says as much.
Here on FR a few might speak loudly, but even here Giuliani polls favorably, especially head-to-head versus McCain. People recognize the need to reverse the 2006 bleeding, and Giuliani offers the best hope in that regard.
Duncan Hunter remains the best possible candidate. Although it is disturbing that so many Republicans are apparently ignorant to who Duncan Hunter is, I think it will be something when they get a chance to see him during the debates. The man is a natural leader and give it time we can see change. Debates and more campaigning. That is what it is about.
Duncan Hunter looking like a Goliath amoungst Davids < /s>
