Rudy Takes Message to Talk Radio (Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh)

Washington Post ^ | 3/28/07

[areafiftyone]

Continuing his courtship of conservatives, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is running radio ads on the popular talk radio shows hosted by Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

"My campaign is about leadership and optimism," Giuliani says in the ad. "We need strong leadership to stay on offense in the war against terrorists." (Listen to the ad here.)

He also highlights his support for "supply side policies and reduced government spending" to "keep the economy growing."

The commercial ends with a plug for his campaign site -- joinrudy2008.com.

[kellynch]

Didn't Reagan support the Brady Bill?

[dforest]

All these Rudy cheerleaders make finding any thoughful discussion of the GOP nomination quite tedious. Of course, that's their intent.

Yeah, I get tired of the Rudy FRiberals tactics. They forget they are talking to conservatives. We can tell the difference between fine wine and Ripple. Like this thread. Meant to be deceptive, to make it look like Rush is endorsing Rudy. In the end, if Rudy is up against Hillary, she will probably win. Maybe that is what they really want. They like to call us racist, bigoted, and hypocritical because we don't feel Rudy represents us. Liberal tactics from FRiberals. Nothing new here.

[Alberta's Child]

So if Rudy Giuliani decided that the majority of American voters wanted all U.S. troops removed from Iraq, and he responded by running on an anti-war platform in 2008 . . . would you still support him?

[auto power]

oh please...Rudy has already spoken on that issue...wake up from your Rudy bashing and you just might learn something..

[KATIE-O]

The "Conservative Party" is not going to win the next election.

Republicans will—maybe with Newt Gingrich (or other southerner) as VP to balance the ticket.




I totally agree. This country is neither ultra liberal nor ultra conservative and American's will vote for a moderate Republican in large numbers, IMO. A hard core conservative who is against what the mainstream of America is FOR, will not win.

[KATIE-O]

I'd love to see Rudy kicking Harry Reid around DC like a soccer ball.





The stuff of which dreams are made. lol Love it!

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Rudy enthusiastically supported Bill Clinton's assault weapons ban. That applied to the entire nation.

Does America as a whole favor gun control?

So why did Rudy support a gun-control measure enacted on the entire nation?

[wagglebee]

A hard core conservative who is against what the mainstream of America is FOR, will not win.

So, you are finally admitting that Rudy IS NOT a conservative.

[KATIE-O]

A hard core conservative who is against what the mainstream of America is FOR, will not win


So, you are finally admitting that Rudy IS NOT a conservative.




Take your Ritalin and read my post again. I said "hard core conservatives." Rudy is conservative in many areas but moderate to liberal in a few areas. Just like most of America.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Rudy is conservative in many areas but moderate to liberal in a few areas. Just like most of America.

Hmm. It seems that he's more liberal than conservative from what I've read.

Mind listing these conservative positions of his?

[wagglebee]

Rudy is conservative in many areas

Name them.

[KATIE-O]

from: Real Clear Politics
Michael Smerconish - 3 05 07


The real bridge to conservative voters, Giuliani said, was "the kind of judges I'd appoint" - judges who are "strict constructionists," or, as Justice Antonin Scalia describes them, "originalists." These are "judges who would strive to figure out the meaning of the Constitution, rather than what they would like it to mean."

While the Keystone Poll found that a combined 73 percent of Pennsylvanians surveyed said that abortion should be legal under "any" or "certain" circumstances, Republican primary voters are far more pro-life in their views. So I asked Giuliani if he was speaking in code to the pro-life community when using the words strict constructionist.

"It is not code for my knowing if people would overturn [Roe v. Wade] or wouldn't," he said. "It is, rather than code, a description of the kind of philosophy I would look for in a judge. A judge that I would describe as strict constructionist might come to the conclusion that [Roe v. Wade] was incorrectly decided, or a judge like that might come to the conclusion that it has been the law for so long that we can limit it but can't overturn it."

In a word, Giuliani was reasonable. He was a voice of moderation, not extremism, but with conservative bona fides relative to terrorism. No wonder he is leading the pack in Pennsylvania, where 21 percent of respondents said they considered themselves liberal, 41 percent said moderate, and 32 percent said conservative.

[wagglebee]

That is a bunch of gibberish. Rudy is pro-abortion, that is NOT A CONSERVATIVE POSITION and it doesn't matter how you or anyone else attempts to parse it.

Would you consider voting for Joe Lieberman, Dick Gephardt or Tom Daschle? Because all of them have positions that match or are even more conservative than Rudy's.

[KATIE-O]

Metro Daily News
By Deroy Murdock/Syndicated columnist
Sunday, February 18, 2007 - Updated: 12:40 AM EST


By Deroy Murdock


The Republican primary's most accomplished supply-sider is the all-but-announced Rudolph W. Giuliani. Having sliced taxes and slashed Gotham's government, New York's former mayor is the leading fiscal conservative among 2008's GOP presidential contenders.

Before Giuliani's Jan. 1, 1994, inauguration, New York's economy was on a stretcher. Amid soaring unemployment, 235 jobs vanished daily within the city. Financier Felix Rohatyn complained: "Virtually all human activities are taxed to the hilt." Punitive taxes helped fuel a $2.3 billion deficit.

Mayor-elect Giuliani sounded Reaganesque when he announced he would "reduce the size and cost of city government" to balance the budget. In his first State of the City address, he said: "We're going to cut taxes to attract jobs so our people can work."

Giuliani spent eight years keeping these promises.

Giuliani cut or killed 23 levies, saving taxpayers $9.8 billion. Giuliani pared Gotham's top income-tax rate by 20.6 percent. Washington, D.C.'s CFO reported that between 1993 and 2001, local taxes on a family of four New Yorkers earning $50,000 fell 23.7 percent.

Giuliani cut the commercial-rent tax, curbed sales taxes and curtailed the marriage penalty on taxpaying couples. Giuliani proudly shaved Gotham's hotel tax from 6 percent to 5 in 1994. Consequently, that tax's revenues soared from $135 million in fiscal year 1995 to $239 million in 2001.

Giuliani defends his supply-side instincts with bracing candor. Asked after the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center towers whether he would hike taxes, Giuliani called that "a dumb, stupid, idiotic, and moronic thing to do."

Giuliani's expenditure growth averaged 2.9 percent annually, while local inflation between January 1994 and December 2001 averaged 3.6 percent. His 1995 fiscal year budget decreased outlays by 1.6 percent, while his post-9/11 2002 plan lowered appropriations by 2.6 percent.

If President Bush had followed Giuliani's example and limited Washington's spending to 2.9 percent average, annual growth, the just-unveiled fiscal 2008 federal budget would cost $2.275 trillion, not $2.9 trillion, saving taxpayers $625 billion, the Cato Institute's Stephen Slivinski estimates. Such Giulianian fiscal discipline would generate a $386 billion surplus, not an anticipated $239 billion deficit.

Giuliani repeatedly privatized municipal assets. Giuliani sold WNYC radio for $20 million, WNYC-TV for $207 million and Gotham's share of the U.N. Plaza Hotel for $85 million. Divesting the New York Coliseum excised an eyesore from Columbus Circle and added $345 million to city coffers. Giuliani also let the private Central Park Conservancy manage Manhattan's fabled urban forest.

These eight years of tax reduction and fiscal responsibility helped hammer unemployment from 10.4 percent in 1993 to 5.7 percent in 2001. Simultaneously, personal income advanced 53 percent.

It's hard to compare a two-term ex-mayor, a one-term governor and a four-term U.S. senator. Nevertheless, Cato's 2006 gubernatorial report card gives former Massachusetts chief executive Mitt Romney a "C." While the top personal tax rate fell 6 percent on his watch, thanks to a referendum voters approved before he arrived, Romney's first budget raised $140 million by closing corporate-tax loopholes. It also featured some $501.5 million in increased fees, including higher marriage licenses (from $4 to $50), pricier gun permits ($25 to $100), a $100 biannual fee for volunteer firefighters (rescinded under pressure), and a $10, previously free, ID card that lets the blind ride Boston public-transit gratis.

Few in Congress expose outrageous federal boondoggles as fervently as does John McCain. However, he is an ambivalent tax fighter. According to Club for Growth research, McCain opposed President Clinton's 1993 tax increases and supported his 1997 capital gains tax cuts. He also voted to extend President Bush's 2003 tax cuts. For 2005, McCain earned a 78 percent National Taxpayers Union rating an "A."

Unfortunately, McCain opposed President Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. McCain voted against repealing the Death Tax in 2002. Also, in 1998, McCain embraced former South Dakota Democratic Senator Tom Daschle's motion to approve Big Tobacco's Master Settlement Agreement, including a $1.10-per-pack cigarette-tax increase.

[wagglebee]

And just so we're real clear, Michael Smerconish is no more a conservative than Rudy is. He has given money to Arlen Specter, Rudy and even Bill Bradley.

http://www.newsmeat.com/media_political_donations/Michael_Smerconish.php

[Ultra Sonic 007]

You stick to fiscal issues, which is fine.

Lowering spending (which seemed to end as he neared the end of his mayoral term) and cutting taxes. That's two.

Not enough to overwhelm his other positions, much less equal.

[KATIE-O]

And just so we're real clear, Michael Smerconish is no more a conservative than Rudy is. He has given money to Arlen Specter, Rudy and even Bill Bradley.




Nice try, you can kill the messenger but you can't kill his facts!

[KATIE-O]

Didn't Reagan support the Brady Bill?


Yes, he did.


http://www.keepandbeararms.com/newsarchives/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=2955


The KABA poll presented six “gun control” examples. Here are our sources:

Items 1, 2 and 4:


“Reagan last week declared his support for a bill requiring a seven-day waiting period for handgun purchases. He did so at a George Washington University ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the shooting that almost killed him and permanently disabled his press secretary, James S. Brady.


“It is called the Brady Bill, and Reagan said Congress should enact it without delay. ‘It's just plain common sense that there be a waiting period to allow local law enforcement officials to conduct background checks on those who wish to buy a handgun,’ the former president said.’”


Item 3 and 5:


“It was Governor Ronald Reagan of California who signed the Mulford Act in 1967, ‘prohibiting the carrying of firearms on one's person or in a vehicle, in any public place or on any public street.’ The law was aimed at stopping the Black Panthers, but affected all gun owners.

“Twenty-four years later, Reagan was still pushing gun control. ‘I support the Brady Bill,’ he said in a March 28, 1991 speech, ‘and I urge the Congress to enact it without further delay.’"


Item 6:


“All those magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds will be legal to manufacture again. It will once again be legal to import the group of shotguns administratively banned by Ronald Reagan and the group of semi-automatic rifles similarly banned by the first President Bush. (Both of these executive bans were codified in the 1994 law.)”

Since the KABA poll was released, additional information has resurfaced concerning President Reagan’s support for the 1994 “assault weapon” ban: “Kenneth J. Cooper & Ann Devroy, Backers of Assault Weapons Ban Make Final Push for Undecided Votes, WASH. POST, May 5, 1994, at A5. Former Presidents Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan announced their support of the ban in a letter.”

Finally, know that gun owners are not alone in mourning the passing of President Reagan. A touching memorial tribute can be found here, written by people who professed to love him and call him “friend."

With this clear evidence of Mr. Reagan supporting the Brady Bill, a ban on shotguns and semiautos, and a ban on carrying firearms in public, it seems fair to ask:

Why is NRA republishing their 1983 resolution (issued, incidentally, 16 years after he signed the Mulford Act) where they proclaimed “President Reagan has forcefully stood by his convictions in support of the second amendment right of citizens to keep and bear arms for any legitimate purpose, including self-defense; and…vigorously rejects the myth that gun control is crime control…”?

And why is the Second Amendment Foundation telling its supporters, “President Reagan knew the value of gun ownership?”

[Sunsong]

Vote for whoever you like. I hope that you do like someone.

[dforest]

I like Hunter and Thompson. I'll vote for a conservative.