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Christoper Miles: Why I'm Voting for Rudy Guiliani
Tampa Bay Online ^ | 4/6/07 | Chris Miles

Posted on 04/07/2007 2:30:04 PM PDT by meg88

Rudy Giuliani is the best presidential candidate.

On Thursday, April 5, there were two articles in the opinion section that led me to this conclusion. One was "Rudy would kill pro-life movement" written by Doug Patton and the other, "A New Yorker Remembers Rudy" written by Ted Rall.

Patton represents the religious right movement that has taken over the Republican Party. Within his article, he even commends Rudy Giuliani as a candidate. However he is ready to jettison a candidate on one issue only. Patton equates conservatism to pro-life. I would say that anyone who wants to have government tell others how to live by their religious standards is not conservative at all.

From Rudy's website: "Rudy Giuliani supports reasonable restrictions on abortion such as parental notification with a judicial bypass and a ban on partial birth abortion -- except when the life of the mother is at stake. He's proud that adoptions increased 66 percent while abortions decreased over 16 percent in New York City when he was mayor. But Rudy understands that this is a deeply personal moral dilemma, and people of good conscience can disagree respectfully. Ultimately he believes that it is a decision between a woman, her doctor, her family and her God.

Ted Rall is as far left as you can get. His article is spent on Rudy Giuliani's performance during and after 9/11 and his personality. He also chastises him for running off panhandlers. It is his opinion. He never mentions performance in other areas such as when Rudy restored fiscal discipline by controlling spending and cutting wasteful programs. He cut the size of city-funded government bureaucracy by nearly 20 percent -- excluding the number of cops on the street and teachers in the classroom.

He cut taxes 23 times in New York and turned a $2.3 billion budget deficit into a multi-billion dollar surplus, while balancing the city's budget. He put more cops on the street and more criminals in jail. He cut crime in half and reduced murders by two-thirds during his time as mayor. He accomplished this as a Republican mayor with a Democratic city council. Could a "self sabotaging, thin skinned bully" deliver these results?

The extreme right and left in politics dislike him as a candidate. To me, this is the best reason to vote for him.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: electionpresident; giuliani; rinorudy; rinowhine; rudy
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1 posted on 04/07/2007 2:30:05 PM PDT by meg88
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To: meg88

HAPPY EASTER!


2 posted on 04/07/2007 2:32:08 PM PDT by airborne (Freedom is worth fighting for !! And I'm in a fighting mood !! HUNTER 2008 !)
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To: airborne

No barf alert?


3 posted on 04/07/2007 2:35:46 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: meg88

Why I’m not voting for Rudy: I’m a conservative!!


4 posted on 04/07/2007 2:36:38 PM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: meg88
So we're now posting letters to the editor to try to prop up Rudy? Isn't enough to post when county commissioners, etc endorse?

Whatever...

5 posted on 04/07/2007 2:39:52 PM PDT by don-o (Fight, fight. fight to drive the GOP to the right!!!!)
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To: meg88

Why would Christopher Miles waste a perfectly good vote on a liberal like Guiliani? Has Chrissy been smokin’ dope?


6 posted on 04/07/2007 2:40:46 PM PDT by politicalwit (Family values don't stop at the border...but Federal laws do.)
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To: traderrob6

HAPPY EASTER!


7 posted on 04/07/2007 2:40:52 PM PDT by airborne (Freedom is worth fighting for !! And I'm in a fighting mood !! HUNTER 2008 !)
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“I would say that anyone who wants to have government tell others how to live by their religious standards is not conservative at all.”

For many opposition to abortion isn’t based on religious precepts. Its due to the simple fact that the act is the destruction of life. And life is viewed under conservatism, IMHO, as a primary object worth defending and protecting. Whether or not its the job of the Federal govt or the state is another story but the point stands. The idiot author of this piece is simply trying to shelve the abortion issue by tying opposition to abortion to the GOP religious busybodies. Yes they exist and are just as disgusting as the leftwing varient. But sorry, nice try - no dice.


8 posted on 04/07/2007 2:41:14 PM PDT by KantianBurke
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To: meg88

Nothing to see here, just another RINO whine.


9 posted on 04/07/2007 2:45:31 PM PDT by darkangel82 (Socialism is NOT an American value.)
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To: meg88
written by Ted Rall.

He's basing his decision on Ted Rall???

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

10 posted on 04/07/2007 2:48:05 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Ben Franklin, we tried but we couldn't keep it.)
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To: don-o

I don’t see anyone writing letters to the editor supporting other candidates...


11 posted on 04/07/2007 2:48:14 PM PDT by meg88
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Rudy says "a woman has a right to choose" to kill her unborn baby.

He's wrong, a woman DOES NOT have a right to choose to kill her unborn baby no matter what the lawyers say.

He will not get the nomination based on that alone.

12 posted on 04/07/2007 2:49:21 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: meg88
Patton represents the religious right movement that has taken over the Republican Party.

When I see something like this, it makes me think one thing.

Anti-Christian bigot.

The rest of the rah-rah was soiled after that bit of venom.
13 posted on 04/07/2007 2:51:31 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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To: KantianBurke

Post #8 well said! Being pro-life has nothing to do with “interfering” with other people’s rights. Humans believe that life should be protected since the dawn of time. The author uses a big strawman here.


14 posted on 04/07/2007 2:55:51 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Ben Franklin, we tried but we couldn't keep it.)
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To: meg88
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15 posted on 04/07/2007 2:58:15 PM PDT by TommyDale ("Rudy can win the War on Terror!" Perhaps, but for whose side?)
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To: meg88
I don’t see anyone writing letters to the editor supporting other candidates...

That's because we know what our candidates stand for and they're confident in their beliefs and in own skin. Compare Rudy's schizo statements with that of a Hunter, who's grounded in his beliefs without regard to public opinion polls or MSM hit pieces. If you've got to shill for someone who's supposedly leading the polls, especially this early in the race, then that said candidate is in trouble.

16 posted on 04/07/2007 2:59:33 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Ben Franklin, we tried but we couldn't keep it.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

This guy must not like his second amendment rights.


17 posted on 04/07/2007 3:00:56 PM PDT by oldenuff2no
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To: meg88
I would say that anyone who wants to have government tell others how to live by their religious standards is not conservative at all.

Translation: Voters with moral values will not be welcome in Giuliani's GOP.

18 posted on 04/07/2007 3:02:32 PM PDT by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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“However he is ready to jettison a candidate on one issue only. Patton equates conservatism to pro-life.”

Giuliani would fund abortions with taxpayer money, which is a socialist plan, not a conservative plan. And it’s not just “one issue”. Giuliani is a champion of gay rights and same-sex “unions”; he marched in a Gay Pride parade in NYC. He wants national gun laws and national registration of all guns, has supported Bloomberg’s anti-gun position, and supported the Clintonista Gun Ban of 1994. He would violate the Second Amendment with unconstitutional laws. Giuliani has said, “most of Bill Clinton’s policies are very similar to mine”. Giuliani can’t be trusted anymore than McCain.


19 posted on 04/07/2007 3:24:54 PM PDT by pleikumud
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To: meg88

It’s news to me that you’re not a conservative if you have objections to murder.


20 posted on 04/07/2007 4:03:43 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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