David Scull/The New York Times
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, left, at a 1995 news
conference with Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat
of New York, and James S. Brady, who was shot in the
assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.
Posted on 03/23/2007 4:01:10 AM PDT by Pharmboy
David Scull/The New York Times
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, left, at a 1995 news
conference with Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat
of New York, and James S. Brady, who was shot in the
assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.
As mayor of New York City, Rudolph W. Giuliani became the favorite Republican of gun control advocates.
He spoke in favor of a licensing system for gun owners that would require trigger locks and firearms training, and he lobbied Congress to outlaw most military-style assault weapons. He was the only Republican mayor to join a lawsuit by dozens of cities against the gun industry, and he complained that Southern states had lax gun laws that fed the illegal weapons trade in the Northeast.
“It was very important to have a visible Republican to make the case that this wasn’t some liberal Democratic agenda,” said Paul Helmke, a former Republican mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind., and the president of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. “I was at the signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House when Bill Clinton signed the crime bill with the assault weapons ban, and Giuliani had the most prominent seat in the front row.”
But as a presidential candidate, Mr. Giuliani now talks very differently about guns as he tries to allay the concerns of Republican primary voters. He says he supports the right of individuals to bear arms, and that states — and generally not the federal government — should decide whether to put some limits on that right. He also spoke in favor of a federal appeals court ruling this month that struck down a District of Columbia ordinance barring people from keeping handguns in their homes.
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There's no doubt he communicates well with a portion of the electorate. I am not that portion, and need someone like Boortz or The Great One, intellectually.
It's darned close to that already. Goebbels would be proud of 'em.
Sean's constant fawning over Janine Pirro is the primary reason I no longer listen to the man.
(The other reason is that I have sharper, and more eloquent cheese in my fridge.)
No matter what he says now, what will President Rudy do when the first Columbine happens on his watch. Clamp down big time.
Either this is his loop-hole, or he still doesn't get it. Or both.
Oh yes. Rudy is such a disaster he's been the frontrunner for months among Republicans.
Fred can do it!
Duncan Hunter can do it better.
Popularity =/= Right
We're not even at the primaries.
And what are your thoughts on the article?
I'm not wasting my time with the ragers. Just let me leave and say that I'm delighted with Rudy's frontrunner status.
Do you have to denigrate Donna to lift up Rudy? You know he was estranged from his first wife for years and he moved in with Donna while he was still married to the first wife. So, he was estranged from his first wife and had an affair with another woman. Was his first wife "a nut", too?
You might want to source that. My source on estrangement from Rudy and Donna is Newsweek from last week.
And if you wish to defend Donna who played in the Vagina Monologues and would never even say if she voted for her own husband, feel free. ROFL
"I take thee--to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do us part; and, thereto, I plight thee my troth."Now, let's try it the modern, Rudy way:
"I take thee--to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, till we become estranged and/or you become nuts; and, thereto, I reserve my right to find someone else more pleasant and convenient and more mindful of my needs in the meantime and finally dump you, but only after I've used you successfully in campaign commercials to make voters think of me what I want them to think rather than what I actually am, after which I'll lock you and the family out of the mayor's mansion. After all, in the end, what could be more important than my happiness and convenience? And isn't that better for everyone else?"
Yeah, uninformed republicans. The more people hear about him, the less likely they are to suck it up for him like you do incessantly.
Seriously, with all his negatives, how can you support him. Do you have a shred of conscience? Don't bother answering, because anyone who supports Giuliani knowing all his bad points cannot have a conscience. I mean, you have the blood of 50 million dead babies on your hands. That would bother anyone with conscience.
Oh yeah, that unabashedly liberal rag. Great source. LMAO!
Letting the MSM pick your candidate is not going to get you the best deal. Not that you'd understand, though.
Good points, Fierce Allegiance. Don't some of those comments sound vaguely familiar, oh, from about 15-16 years ago? Comments like "character doesn't matter," etc.? I seem to remember lots of people saying that a certain southern governor's personal pecadilloes would in no way reflect upon his behavior if he were elected president. We all know how that turned out, don't we.........?
And the judges award Rudy a 6.5 on the attempted backflip.
"She's a nut and I don't blame him at all for leaving her.
Is that Donna Hanover of the vagina monologues?
I think Rudy did well to dump her. Of course the Rudy haters won't give him credit where credit is due, as in leaving the vagina-monologues wife.
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