Thank you Vanna White.
((((((RUDY PING))))
A deserving name for a guy who mounted so many New York mares.
Hmmmmm. I suppose James Monroe was never a serious presidential candidate!
Yes, I suppose there are many out there who will vote on some "ethnic identity" basis without even beginning to understand what the guy stands for. I actually had somebody tell me that Rudy won't be elected because of prejudice against Italians. I'm an Irish Catholic who wouldn't vote for a Kennedy and I'm sure there are numbers of Italians who are also Catholic who won't vote for Rudy.
Are you an idiot, or something? Or did you forget about John Kerry, or Barry Goldwater?
The title alone should include a barf alert.
We need a War Horse. Not a Miniature Shetland.
This "Italian American" will be voting for a conservative in the primary, hopefully Thompson, if he ever decides to get off his tush and declare.
California is a "swing state"? Since when?
Could it POSSIBLY be because he is an aging, bald-headed (we miss the comb-over RINO-rudy!) little man with a speech impediment (the lisp could be one reason this FABULOUS inner-city bureaucrat is all the rage with the gay community), and a nervous tick (watch ol' RINO-rudy speak, and you'll see it - the uncontrollable eyes WIDENING, then going back to "normal", then WIDENING again - what's with this guy, is there dain bramage?)?
This guy is NOT:
1. A "stallion" in any way shape or form.
2. "America's Mayor", as the left-wing media and the RINO-rudy-ROOTERS would have us believe.
And, most importantly...
RINO-rudy is NOT, I repeat NOT, a CONSERVATIVE.
He is NOT presidential material from a moral (RINO-rudy lacks morals in his personal life, and his view on abortion is immoral) or appearance standpoint (he'd be a PERFECT demonRAT, where moral misfits like bill clinton and appearance-challenged freaks like janet reno and madeline halfbright shine), and he is most especially NOT "REPUBLICAN" (not EVEN close, with his liberal support of abortion and gun control) presidential material.
RINO-rudy for Bronx Dog-Catcher 2008!!!
He could play a Mafia kingpin on a new mob show titled, "The SopRINOS".
Interesting post. I agree that Italian/Americans are generally not a monolithic voting block. They vote on issues and have quietly blended into society, and many have achieved considerable successes in their chosen fields. Justices Scalia and Alito, Vince Lombardi, Frank Sinatra quickly come to mind. However, my experience has been that nothing will galvanize It/Am more than having one of their own candidates for higher office made the object of ridicule based on their ethnicity by the opposition, both in the primaries, and in the general election. If that were to happen, even Nancy Pelosi would flip the switch for Rudy.
So Kennedy wasn't a major candidate?
James Monroe's two vowels cancel each other out?
Silent e's don't count for Fillmore, Coolidge, and Pierce?
Ping. Barf-a-roni, the Guiliani treat. The title alone is nauseating.
More RuBot spam.
"The National Italian American Foundation puts the number at 25 million, close to 10 percent of the population."
I read that 25 million figure back in the early 80s, so today must be correct. The figure includes Italians and Italian-Americans.
"Italian-Americans aren't usually thought of as an electoral bloc," says Dr. Diane Heith, a political scientist as St. John's University. "They aren't even polled separately."
Maybe because noone much cares about mere ethnicities amongst the white race.
They also aren't as positively monolithic as certain other preferred minorities. It would be boring to keep showing that Italian-Americans are going 55-45 Dem, then 55-45 Repub, then 52-49 Repub, etc.
The media love showing how XXXX is going 85-15 Dem. It also helps to push their agenda - focusing on groups that are monolithic Dem. Helps give the impression that EVERYONE tends to be Dem.
Thank you Vanna White.