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Bloggers to Blame for Rudy's Bad Week? (Rudy Blames Bloggers for His Woes).
Townhall.com ^ | Friday, April 06, 2007 | Matt Lewis

Posted on 04/06/2007 11:16:37 AM PDT by TitansAFC

Has it crossed your mind that this may be an extremely rough primary in 2008? I asked him.

"It has, and it will be," Giuliani replied. But he also said he did not think the attacks would come directly from other Republican presidential candidates.

"I think more of this comes from the atmosphere in the blogging atmosphere, in the instant news atmosphere, and the minute analysis atmosphere," he said.

Is Rudy blaming bloggers for his recent bad publicity?

Rudy's recent problems have arisen from interviews he granted or speeches he gave.

The most damning information has come from YouTube videos, which merely give the voters a chance to hear Rudy -- in his own words. His primary problems -- the ones that have stuck -- have not come from bloggers scurrilous accusations -- they have come from bloggers reporting his own words.

Debate and argument are healthy for Democracy. And as a conservative, I am happy that we are having these fights now -- rather than in the General Election. Imagine if we didn't find out that Rudy Giuliani was in favor of taxpayer-funded abortion until two weeks before the Genereal Election. In that scenario, we could actually have a Republican candidate who is more pro-choice than the Democrat nominee ...

By going through this process, bloggers are ultimately doing two things:

1. Helping inform the voters to make a better decision regarding who best represents their values.

2. Ensuring Republican voters have enough information to nominate a strong Republican candidate who has been tested -- before going into a General Election.

Granted, not all bloggers are responsible. That's how free speech works. But the cure for our problems is more debate and argument -- not less.

Enough of the hand-wringing. Politics is tough. Get a helmet!


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; elections; giuliani; lizhanoverforexample; rudy; sickofrudy; stoprudy2008; verysickofrudy; veryverysickofrudy
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To: traderrob6
if his poll numbers dip substantially he will pull out.

I intend to do everything I can to help the dip.

61 posted on 04/06/2007 11:36:30 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody want a peanut.....)
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To: NeoCaveman

i liked him better when he was unflinchingly saying ‘don’t vote for me if you don’t agree with my positions.’ my respect for him will plummet if he doesn’t stand firm on that, and tries to back away.


62 posted on 04/06/2007 11:37:14 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: TommyDale
Nobody here is officially doing the bidding of the Giuliani campaign, that I know of. The “who pays you to post that” paranoia is just that. Paranoia.
63 posted on 04/06/2007 11:37:18 AM PDT by veronica
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To: TommyDale

How convenient. Now that’s it’s law he disavows it.


64 posted on 04/06/2007 11:38:16 AM PDT by veronica
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To: TommyDale

I also suspect there is a major story behind the first quarter fund-raising figures that isn’t getting a lot of attention, either.


65 posted on 04/06/2007 11:38:57 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: showme_the_Glory
"I intend to do everything I can to help the dip."

Does that mean you are voting FOR Doody Rudy?

66 posted on 04/06/2007 11:39:05 AM PDT by Sensei Ern (http://www.myspace.com/reconcomedy - Ann Coulter is My Press Secretary)
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To: veronica
"Nobody here is an official part of the Giuliani campaign."

Really? And you know that for an absolute fact?

67 posted on 04/06/2007 11:39:43 AM PDT by TommyDale ("Rudy can win the War on Terror!" Perhaps, but for whose side?)
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To: Corin Stormhands
Okay, seriously. Regardless of what you think about Rudy, what's incorrect about this statement?

It means Rudy would rather blame the blogsphere than look at his own missteps over the last week. Ya gotta admit, he's made a few doozies over the last ten days or so.

All the blogsphere is doing is getting out Rudy's own words and videos of Rudy's own past appearances and utterances. Candidates can no longer use campaign advertising to drown out their past OR their present fallocies.

68 posted on 04/06/2007 11:39:43 AM PDT by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08/But Fred would also be great)
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To: TommyDale
The Giuliani campaign made a huge mistake of trying to sell him as a conservative here at FreeRepublic.

Damn -- you're hitting all the marks today. Another excellent point.

69 posted on 04/06/2007 11:39:49 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: TitansAFC

Would someone please inform Rudy and the MSM exactly what a blog is and isn’t?


70 posted on 04/06/2007 11:40:54 AM PDT by gotribe ( I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution... - Grover Cleveland.)
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To: veronica

No, he saw that the end result was not the original intention of the bill, and can see the circumvention of the law.


71 posted on 04/06/2007 11:41:42 AM PDT by TommyDale ("Rudy can win the War on Terror!" Perhaps, but for whose side?)
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To: Sensei Ern
I meant the dip in his numbers. It was a Freudian slip Ern.
72 posted on 04/06/2007 11:41:53 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody want a peanut.....)
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To: veronica
So does Fred Thompson.

No, Fred USED to support McCain-Feingold. He thinks it needs to be replaced with instant and full disclosure.

Rudy thinks McCain-Feingold has holes that need to be plugged.

They have taken diameterically opposed directions to the fact it is not working.

And Rudy's still going the wrong way.

73 posted on 04/06/2007 11:41:59 AM PDT by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08/But Fred would also be great)
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To: TommyDale
Fred Thompson supported the bill initially, but has recently denounced it as a mistake.

Ah, I get it. What we called flip-flopping in John Kerry we applaud in Fred Thompson.

74 posted on 04/06/2007 11:42:04 AM PDT by veronica
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To: veronica
Nobody here is an official part of the Giuliani campaign.

Actually, I know of at least one major consultant to the Giuliani campaign who is signed up here.

75 posted on 04/06/2007 11:42:28 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: veronica
Nobody here is officially doing the bidding of the Giuliani campaign, that I know of.

Note the operative phrase at the end. And the fact that someone isn't "doing the bidding" of a campaign or candidate doesn't mean they aren't an integral part of the campaign.

76 posted on 04/06/2007 11:43:12 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: dirtboy
All the blogsphere is doing is getting out Rudy's own words and videos of Rudy's own past appearances and utterances.

That's my point.

And yes, his performance in the last couple of weeks has been less than stellar. But that doesn't change the fact that his point about it being spread across the 'net is a valid one.

77 posted on 04/06/2007 11:44:11 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://wardsmythe.com)
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To: veronica

Call it what you want. I happen to respect a man who sees bad legislation and says it was a mistake. At least Fred Thompson understands the U.S. Constitution.


78 posted on 04/06/2007 11:44:11 AM PDT by TommyDale ("Rudy can win the War on Terror!" Perhaps, but for whose side?)
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To: traderrob6

I think there are some legit points in that article. The reality is that the big 3 all stink to some degree or another to the conservative base.


79 posted on 04/06/2007 11:44:12 AM PDT by pissant (Rudy fans: the Oprah republicans)
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To: veronica
Ah, I get it. What we called flip-flopping in John Kerry we applaud in Fred Thompson.

A flip flop is "I voted for the 87 billion before I voted against it"

Seeing the effect of a policy you once supported and then changing your mind, is a good thing.

Of course I expect the Rudephiles to keep up that pathetic "flip flop" attack on Mitt and spread it to Fred.

80 posted on 04/06/2007 11:44:19 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Giuliani: A strict constructionist judge can come to either conclusion about Roe against Wade.)
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