Posted on 04/25/2007 9:37:29 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
When I tell my liberal friends and associates that there are only a handful of Republicans that I would vote for before Hillary Clinton, the response is universally the same. I get a blank stare, followed by the question: "do you really think Rudy Giuliani can win the Republican nomination?"
If you've read about my infatuation with the Giuliani candidacy, you know my answer is YES. While Democrats like to fall in love with a candidate—Howard Dean or Senator Obama, for example—Republicans prefer picking winners.
With notable exceptions, like the 2002 California Gubernatorial race—Republicans recognize that they, like the Democrats, are a minority party. And yes, the Religious Right will vote for Rudy Giuliani just like they voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger in California in 2003 and again in 2006.
While most Republicans would rather support a candidate who opposed abortion rights and supported the Second Amendment, they also realize that, after seven years of George W. Bush's religious-right mobilization efforts, Americans would be hard pressed to elect such a person.
Republicans don't like being losers. Being losers is why people become Democrats.
Rudy Giuliani offers the best and most practical hope to fight off the evil empire of American politics—the Clinton Family—because he remains a national hero and is not tarnished by the Iraq war. What's more, Giuliani's "urban conservative" message of freedom for all evokes the origins of the Grand Old Party—while chipping away at the core voter base of the Democrats.
Giuliani's electability is what will get Religious voters to support him—and some will do so even enthusiastically.
If you don't believe me, then just follow the money. Campaign logic would say that Rudy Giuliani, the more moderate—dare I say liberal—Republican would be sweeping in campaign dollars from urban areas, where Republicans have more libertarian leanings. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney, the born-again religious conservative, should be raking in the dough from suburban, ex-urban and rural areas where like-minded folks call home.
Campaign logic, however, would be wrong.
Romney leads Republicans in fundraising nationwide—but also in Los Angeles and its most liberal zip-codes of Beverly Hills, Hollywood and the Westside. Giuliani, on the other hand, wins the fundraising battle in the neighborhoods West of the 405 of Brentwood and Pacific Palisades with a higher concentration of single-family homes.
This anomaly is more stark when you look at the numbers from across the State. Romney is raising more money in urban areas like Sacramento, San Diego and San Francisco. Giuliani is taking in the preponderance of dollars in faraway places like Yolo County, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Napa, Salinas, the Inland Empire and Fresno.
If you looked at a map of fundraising by County in California, Giuliani would win the Red Counties and Romney would take the Blue. It is as if Mitt Romney were the GOP's Phil Angelides.
Look no further than the case of Real Estate Developer/Hotelier C. Frederick Wehba if you need more convincing. The passionately evangelical Christian—who started his own church in Beverly Hills and is a major contributor to George Bush and the RNC. C. Frederick is backing Rudolph Giuliani in 2008, as are Bill Simon and many others in the Christian Community.
Without Ted Haggard to tell them how to vote, Republicans of all stripes seem to be coming to the same conclusion—that the perfect should not be the enemy of the good, especially when the cost of failure is a sequel to President Clinton.
From your LINK Ultra Sonic 007 explaining what dirtboy called me.
Dipweed/dillweed. Literally, “dillweed” likens someone to pubic hair - “dill” being slang for “penis” (think dill pickle) and “weed” being slang for “hair.”
Basically, an idiot.
To be more concise, an idiotic idiot.
That’s not what I read at your link.
Most of the drivel that the Liberal-Rudy-Supporters post is from Liberal sources and uncomfirmed stories in blogs. We even had one of them post some Washington Post/ABC poll and swear it was 100 percent reliable.
The same people that not a few months ago called it and the Times, BS rags. Rudy-Supporters = Liberals, period.
As in someone who doesn't notice taglines as she repeatedly asks who an FR poster supports.
You pick and choose from the definitions offered, I see.
Although I wouldn’t go for that one, I’d go for the first one: “Idiot; Bunghole; one lacking in intelligence or wit; inconsiderate”.
What can I say, it’s an urban dictionary.
That's not foreign policy experience. Unless you have been President of the USA, you have no foreign policy experience. You should know that.
Dipweed = Dipward + Dillweed
Now, I wasn’t aware of the “pubic hair” definition, but I was familiar with the “idiot” part, and both dipwad and dillweed are slang terms for idiots.
Thus,
Dipward = Idiot + Idiot = Twice the amount of Idiot
Or idiotic idiot, for short.
Wow. Just... wow.
And so it’s Fred’s fault that a bunch of corrupt bankers and politicians played the system, eh?
Apparently,’CW’ isn’t bothered that a Kalifornia liberal likes Rudy almost as much as he likes Hillary.
Go figure.
He’s talking to his LIBERAL friends in California.
Can’t you get the joke?
Are you trying to suggest that working to pass a law is equivalent to breaking it?
[does not compute]
I’ve talked to more Dems than I like to count, about what sank Dean, and I’m convinced it all boils down to one simple word: lightweight. Libs loved him but they sensed he would do about as well as Dukakis had done. Worse for him, the Republican was a sitting president.
Kerry didn’t set hearts afire, but they thought he had gravitas (this was in his pre-bluebunny days) and better credentials to sway the undecided.
Kerry was also considered too experienced to say or do anything ridiculous. (!)
Even the moonbats had a sense that Dean was not ready for the big leagues.
It’s like swattin’ flies! lol.
" Oh, please, let me sound conservative. Who knew I'd need those
'dumb pro-life Christian conservatives' to make a primary showing?
They're killing me on FR just b/c I had three wives, several mistresses,
was honored by NARAL, donated to Planned Parenthood, and marched
for gay rights under the NAMBLA banner."
Do you soften your support for your beliefs whenever you’re around a liberal friend (if you have one)?
If you don’t, then why are you sticking up for this guy?
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