Posted on 03/28/2007 10:26:16 AM PDT by Ol' Sparky
When Rudy Giuliani faces Republicans concerned about his support of gay rights and legal abortion, he reassures them that he is a conservative on the decisions that matter most.“I would want judges who are strict constructionists because I am,” he told South Carolina Republicans last month. “Those are the kinds of justices I would appoint — Scalia, Alito and Roberts.”
But most of Giuliani’s judicial appointments during his eight years as mayor of New York were hardly in the model of Chief Justice John Roberts or Samuel Alito — much less aggressive conservatives in the mold of Antonin Scalia.
A Politico review of the 75 judges Giuliani appointed to three of New York state’s lower courts found that Democrats outnumbered Republicans by more than 8 to 1. One of his appointments was an officer of the International Association of Lesbian and Gay Judges. Another ruled that the state law banning liquor sales on Sundays was unconstitutional because it was insufficiently secular.
A third, an abortion-rights supporter, later made it to the federal bench in part because New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer, a liberal Democrat, said he liked her ideology.
Cumulatively, Giuilani’s record was enough to win applause from people like Kelli Conlin, the head of NARAL Pro-Choice New York, the state’s leading abortion-rights group. “They were decent, moderate people,” she said.
“I don’t think he was looking for someone who was particularly conservative,” added Barry Kamins, a Democrat who chaired the panel of the Bar Association of the City of New York, which reviewed Giuliani’s appointments. “He picked a variety from both sides of the spectrum. They were qualified, even-tempered, academically strong.”
Money talks.
Hey Rudy, we're over here on the right side of the Court!
Well those are the issues that matter most to me.
I heard one of them the other day. He is wasting his money...not that there is anything wrong with that.
I suspect this is one big reason why the media love him. They'd never get any of his advertising dollars if they didn't prop him up as a credible candidate.
Understandably.
All the money, campaign ads, and outright lies in the world will never transform the most radically liberal Republican presidential candidate in the history of the known universe into a conservative candidate. These so-called conservative talk show hosts might as well have Hillary and Obama buying air time on their shows to spew their liberal lies right alongside Giuliani. Liberals and liars, all of them.
Social liberalism is ineffectual until it is eventually funded by fiscal liberalism. See GW Bush and Arnold for examples...
I agree. Let him waste his money.
As it stands now, I am backing Ron Paul. When he inevitably pulls out, I will back Giuliani. When we find something incredibly bad about Giuliani’s background, I will migrate towards Richardson. When his campaign fizzles, I will move towards Obama. When Obama starts to proclaim health care is a “right” and backs a single payer system, I will move towards Romney. When Romney flips on something at the last minute, I will jump on Newt’s bandwagon. Once Newt pulls out because he started too late and doesn’t have funding, I will forget about that reason I left Giuliani and back him again.
There, I’m done. See you guys in November of ‘08.
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The question is, when rudy goes courting does he wear a dress???? :)
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" (II Cor. 6:14)
"Rudy went a' courtin and he did ride, uh huh"
Juliwannabe's ads go upon deaf ears in this household.
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