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.
Hear, here.
The author believes that simply being “pro-life” makes you a member of the extreme right. Therefore, everything else he has to say on the matter is immediately suspect.
~~~ and you might be goofy, too.
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That's what does it for me ~ Rudy will never get my vote!!
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Well I’m voting for FRED
Happy Easter all ;-)
Delusional. W has given us the first major RTKBA victory in our lifetime. He signed the PBA ban into law. You embrace a gungrabbing babykiller and claim you are a conservative. You need to rethink your definitions set.
>:-}
Liberals often get the zot here. This is a conservative website.
:):):)
Same here. I'll be writing in "Paul Revere" if he's selected in the Primaries.
Rudy has peaked. His number are never gonna get better than they were last week. He is toast.
Not a bad choice: Revere became a pioneer in the production in America of copper plating, opening North America’s first copper mill, south of Boston in Canton.
Copper from Revere’s mill was used to cover the original wooden dome of the Massachusetts State House in 1802, and to produce sheeting for the hull of the USS Constitution.
Ya gotta have good copper plating!! :)
Here’s to good copper, an ingredient of bronze...
Bronze is any of a broad range of copper alloys, usually with tin as the main additive, but sometimes with other elements such as phosphorus, manganese, aluminium, or silicon.
Loved the bronze age. >:-}
“Ya gotta have good copper plating!! :)”
How can you not?
With a higher current, hydrogen bubbles will form on the item to be plated, leaving surface imperfections.
We don’t need any imperfections. >:-}
If it was from the same IP address as you, the mods may have thought you were posting under different screen names. I'm sure if you freepmail the mods and explain that it is actually a different person, they'll be happy to unZOT him or her.
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