Posted on 03/25/2007 11:44:12 AM PDT by FairOpinion
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani led off with his strongest card, his terrorism-fighting credentials, before touching on healthcare, immigration and energy policy in a speech to a welcoming crowd Saturday.
"Sept. 11, 2001, taught me — and I believe it taught a lot of people, including President Bush — that we have to remain on offense," Giuliani said. "That means that we have to use our military. We can't show weakness."
Giuliani seemed to hit all the right notes Saturday, getting applause when he criticized Democrats' stance on healthcare and advocated vouchers for schools.
On immigration, he told reporters he doesn't support amnesty for illegal immigrants, but he could support a guest worker program if there were adequate border security and tamper-proof ID cards. He said that even if illegal immigrants "can demonstrate that they are lawful, that they are paying taxes [and] that they'll pay penalties," they still shouldn't be put ahead of people who go through legal channels.
"And citizenship here, if it's earned, should be premised on being able to read and write English and understand American history, so we restore assimilation to the process of immigration," he said.
"Nothing will unite the Republicans more than a candidate who can beat Hillary Clinton," Curry said.
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C'mon, you know Arnold won on star power. You know how California is.
How's that tax increase to pay to butcher embryos for macabre science experiments working out?
Of course he wasn't saying that women should be allowed to slaughter babies, nor was he in favor of homosexual union/marriage, not even grabbing guns.
LMAO!
You're joking right? Please tell me you don't honestly believe that all Republicans are conservative.
Cut it out. Your views if they are Rudys views are not conservative.
Rudys views and past performance are unacceptable to lifelong conservatives and you know it.
This is getting more hysterical by the minute!
Abortion, militant homosexualism, gun grabbing. Yep, those are hallmarks of conservatism.
Right, so he's just a proabort.
Oh, and he's anti-gun.
And pro-amnesty.
And, of course, has a checkered personal life.
But aside from that he "has all the conservative credentials that any Republican has", whatever the hell that means.
I'll try this one again, let's see if any Rudyites can solve my little riddle.
If I referred to an anonymous candidate and I did not give you their party affiliation and gave you the following information:
- The candidate believes in the "right" to abortion, including partial birth abortion.
- The candidate believes in the "right" of homosexuals to have a legal union that resembles marriage.
- The candidate believes in the "right" of illegal aliens to illegally enter and remain in our country.
- The candidate believes government has the "right" to modify the Second Amendment of the Constitution at will to curtail the right to keep and bear arms.
If this was the ONLY information you had, would your conclusion be that this unnamed candidate was a conservative Republican or a liberal Democrat?
That was painful and ... err... icky. I'm gonna take a shower now. ;-)
almost every jurisdiction in the country has a "sanctuary policy", but they do it quietly. INS deports almost no one, so its a waste of time to use local law enforcement to chase down illegals at schools and hospitals for deportation.
Is it me, or is it getting weird around here?
http://www.joinrudy2008.com/index.php?section=2&pageid=98
Was this written by a 7th grader?
It is a little strange having to defend conservative principles on a conservative forum.
It sure reads that way.
Welcome to the "Rudy 1984" campaign!
Where liberal is conservative and lies are truth.
OH MY! What a WHOPPER!
Yeah, that was the funniest thing I've read all day.
I guess it would be true if the Republicans used as the "frame of reference" are Snowe, Susan Collins, Lincoln Chafee, Bloomberg and Schwarzenegger.
"Rudy has all the conservative credentials that any Republican has, except he has not flip flopped on his belief in a woman's right to choose"...----but he has on his gun-grabbing, sort of but NOT his support for the radicals in NARAL and the Stonewall Vets and for more government.
RINO Rudy is a liberal.
BUMP!
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