Jim, I didn’t miss it. Anybody who reads a newspaper knows he is pro-choice/baby killing. Nobody is exactly coming down off the mountain with the tablets with that bit of information.
I’m not a Rudy supporter yet, he has to win me over or some other candidate has to win me over. My sole experience with Rudy consists of:
a. living in NYC when he was mayor and waking up to my car alarm blaring, looking out the window and watching his goons tow my car away because it was 4 inches over the no parking sign so that they can collect $120 plus towing fees to feather the city treasury.
b. ridding the city of squeegie pests who would try to clean said car windshield after I got it out of the impound yard near the pier.
c. meeting him at a Yankee game during the 1998 ALCS where we had a fascinating 15 second conversation about Andy Petitte’s pitching performance. (federal funding for embryonic stem cell research never came up)
But this idea that he is a Socialist when he cut taxes in a liberal city that never met money they didn’t think was theirs is simply not fair. Let’s be honest here.
If anything, I think that social conservatives would love the fact that he transfromed Times Square from Disneyworld for degenerate adults into...well...Disneyworld.
There are two issues that will turn me off to Rudy. If I ever hear a word about Global Warning or a need to perform social engineering to coerce people to quit smoking and lose weight whether they want to voluntarily or not, he can forget any possible support from me. To me, Global Warming hysteria and Nanny State Behavior Syndrome aren’t a disease in and of itself, they are lithmus test indicating a much more serious disease..what you and I call Socialism.
Guess you missed this:
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, insisting he is “100 percent committed” to running for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, wooed Silicon Valley’s tech leaders Monday – saying he “definitely’’ believes in global warming, praising Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for being a “progressive’’ leader on the environment and calling for immigration policies that welcome “people who make contributions” to America’s economy.
Ask, and you shall receive. Heck, I've even got video:
Giuliani Press Conference - 2/12/07 - (Video)And here is some of Giuliani's history on anti-smoking laws and ordinances:Question: Do you believe there is a such thing as "global warming" and what about Governor Schwartzenegger's position - do you support him in the legislation (unintelligible)
Rudy: I do. I do believe there's global warming. Yes. And...and I...I think there are...I'm not a scientist all I can do is look at the reports. I think the last one said that...uh...ummm...fir-fir-first of all there's definitely global warming as far as I can tell. I guess the big question has always been how much is it, how much of it is happening because of just natural climate changes and progressions and how much is happening because of human intervention - carbon in particular - and the overwhelming majority of the scientists believe that there's significant human cause that's making it more difficult, making it worse.
And I've always thought the debate was a little bit...uh...um...unnecessary because most of the things that are happening with global warming are happening with pollution and we should be, we should be dealing with pollution anyway. So, it seems to me there's a community of interest here to do the things that are necessary to reduce polluting the environment.
Question: Have you seen "Inconvenient Truth" and there are some people that say that there aren't a lot of solutions that are posed. You've basically condemned the movie.
Rudy: Oh, I didn't condemn it. Condemn is a really bad...condemn...condemn...condemn is when you put somebody in jail or s...something like that. What I found...what I found indadequate...what I found inadequate about the movie wasit really didn't have any (microphone problems - laughter) I thought this was a technology conference...Um...I didn't think that it had any real strong suggestions about how, about how to deal with it. What...what...I would have been much more satisfied with that movie if it had listed, you know our...uh...what kind of research is going to be done on carbon sequestration, how are you gonna cuh...how are you gonna create clean coal. Is coal the way to go? How much are you going to increase ethanol and uh how much research and development and exactly how can that reduce the problem?
These are all things that we have to do. And we don't do them because of the fluctuations very often of the price of gasoline. And we don't do them because there are special interests that stop them and I did not detect in the movie the same zeal to take on those special interests as I did in explaining the problem.
January 10, 1995 - Mayor Rudolph Giuliani signs the Smoke-Free Air Act, which bans smoking in virtually all public places, with a few exceptions; among them, restaurants seating under 35 patrons, separately ventilated rooms and free-standing bars.Even anarchic New York City has adopted a comprehensive smoking ordinance that goes into effect this month (April 1995), for the first time extending smoking restrictions to outdoor areas, such as parks and stadiums. "This is where the rest of the world is going," explained Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.