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.
Life is not an issue.
It is a RIGHT!
Thats Soooo gay..
I’m a conservative and I’ll vote for Rudy in a hot NY minute regardless of what anyone else says, even when they try to tell me how to think. End of story.
Gosh, no wonder this punk supports Rooty...the guy who ran on the Republican AND the Liberal Party lines...
Conservative is as conservative does.
So in six issues or less, please define “conservative”.
And you don’t get to dictate what either of those are.
I repeat. I’m a conservative and I’ll vote for Rudy in a red hot NY minute.
No.
ROTFLMAO! You claim the mantle and refuse the opportunity to define it. Your embrace of a pro-abort, gungrabbing fan of “gay rights” and “sanctuary cities” makes your claim laughable.
Who do you support in the GOP presidential primaries?
| Fred Thompson | |
| 43.8% |   |
| Duncan Hunter | |
| 11.8% | |
| Rudy Giuliani | |
| 10.5% | |
| Newt Gingrich | |
| 10.1% | |
| Ron Paul | |
| 6.9% | |
| Tom Tancredo | |
| 5.7% | |
| Mit Romney | |
| 4.7% | |
| Undecided/pass | |
| 4.2% | |
| Other | |
| 1.3% |
|
| John McCain | |
| 1.0% |
|
Your actions are speaking so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.
That has to hurt!
Christopher Miles is for Rudy? Wow. Well that settles it again, I mean, Christopher Miles? How coud I disgagree with him?
You think I want to debate you? After you quoted the owner of this site in some half baked effort to intimidate me? Forget that stuff.
I’ll give you two really huge conservative issues. Number one is to fight and win the war on terror. Number two is to make damned sure no Democrat gets in the White House in 08.
But I don’t want to debate you. I just want to let you and everyone know that y’all don’t own the market on conservatism.
I’ll vote for whoever has that R next to his name. And if that’s Rudy, so much the better.
And you don’t get to dictate what either of those are.And zook will NOT define or defend them. He will embrace, in public, babykilling gungrabbers though.
Hold onto that picture, Tommy : )
I don’t care what you can or can’t hear. I’m not here to debate you or win you over. Just to stand up for a good GOP candidate.
I’ll give you two really huge conservative issues. Number one is to fight and win the war on terror. Number two is to make damned sure no Democrat gets in the White House in 08.Number one is a basic American issue and number two is a party issue, unrelated to conservatism.
Do tell, why would anyone believe that a corrupt draft-evading New York lawyer would do well in the War on Terror?
Not so dumb blonde : )
Rudy is not a baby killer. Only extremist punks say that kind of thing. And if Rudy is president, not one single more gun will be “grabbed” than is being “grabbed” now.
Go Rudy!
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