Posted on 05/28/2007 6:47:49 PM PDT by ellery
-snip- I picked up a copy of the newly released Reagan Diaries and found the following in an entry from Tuesday, June 14, 1988 :
Jim Kelly NSC came in to report Philippine legis. is giving us trouble on renewing our mil. bases there. And Giuliani (U.S. Attorney) is talking of drawing up an indictment against Marcos. I think he's crazy.
UPDATE: Jonathan Martin has documents of the cordial exchange between Reagan and Rudy when Giuliani resigned as associate attorney general to become U.S. Attorney.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Cool.
I’m no fan of Giuliani but that one is such a stretch the last name is Armstrong.
Heehehee
Kind of takes the shine off the “Giuliani shakes Pres. Reagan’s hand” pic, doesn’t it??
Well, he is a liberal. That is a fair assumption.
I want to get in early on this one. Oh, man!
(BTW, I wouldn't recommend using Ronald Reagan to violate the 11th Commandment.)
Not a Rudy supporter here, but is Reagan saying that about Giuliani in total, or about this particular idea?
No, Giuliani wasn’t shaking President Reagan’s hand - the President was taking something away from Giuliani.
it's open season, haven't you noticed?
Context-abuse alert.
or is he saying it about Marcos...
The only thing I really like about Rudy is that the sociocons/theocons dislike him so.
“The only thing I really like about Rudy is that the sociocons/theocons dislike him so.”
The only thing I really like about Rudy is that there is nothing to like about him.
Rudy was right. In 1988 Marcos was in exile, living the life of a king in Kahala, Oahu. He should have been in prison.
BTW, the U.S. did file an indictment against Marcos earlier in 1986 for fraud.
I'll say it again, Gudy was right to target that murderous scumbag. If you pious "conservatives" disagree, please explain.
Dittos on all previous stretch Armstrong comments.
You want us to leave Reagan out of it, yet you use him to weigh in on Free Republic politics?
These desperate RudyBots who survived the Bug Zapper are trying so hard to have it both ways, they want SO much to believe that Ronald Reagan practically adopted Rudy and had him baptized, but when something like this pops up, they immediate shriek about ‘context’, ‘stretch Armstrong’, ‘Reagan would never approve’, blah-blah-blah, and the curious thing is that it would appear that Reagan’s comment about Rudy ‘being crazy’ suggests that even the Gipper could see circumstances in which that ‘11th Commandment’ (that Freepers have been pummeled with by the Rudyphiles), could be set aside if necessary.
Rudy isn’t going to be the GOP nominee, and he damn sure isn’t going to be President. End of story.
I take offense to the comment. I'm the first one that said anything about Stretch Armstrong and I'm no RudyBot. I'm on record as supporting Duncan Hunter, it is made perfectly clear in my profile and I alluded to the fact that I am no fan of Giuliani in the original post. I still think it is a ridiculous stretch for someone to write "I think Jake is crazy" in his diary and anyone to propose that means anything serious.
If it does mean anything well then it means I couldn't even vote for my own brother since I've called him that and worse.
There are plenty of legitimate concerns about Giuliani without silly pigs in a poke like this.
The only people that would need this particular pig are either desperate, lazy or incapable.
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