Posted on 09/13/2007 2:25:12 PM PDT by Sonora
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) said Thursday that he is asking The New York Times for the “same heavily discounted rate they gave MoveOn.org” for his campaign to run an ad in Friday’s paper. Giuliani, calling MoveOn.org’s controversial “General Betray Us” ad “abominable,” said his campaign is asking the paper for a comparable rate for an ad to run following President Bush’s speech on Iraq.
The former mayor said his ad “will obviously take the opposite view” from MoveOn.org, which argued in its ad that Gen. David Petraeus is “cooking the books” on Iraq and cherry-picking facts that support his recommendation to keep a large number of troops in Iraq for some time.
Giuliani continued to include Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in his criticisms for her comments that it would take “a willing suspension of disbelief” to accept at face value Petraeus’s report on the situation in Iraq. Giuliani interpreted Clinton’s remarks at a hearing earlier this week as questioning the general’s integrity.
“We think that her attack on Gen. Petraeus was a follow-up to the MoveOn.org/Times attack,” Giuliani told reporters in Atlanta.
You won't find Joe proposing many tax cuts.
He's as conservative as anyone out there on national defense and the WOT. He has a reputation of being tough on crime from his days as a prosecutor and mayor.
He was not a big advocate of tax cutting as mayor. Most of the modest NYC tax cuts during his mayoral regime came (believe it or not) from the Pataki administration in New York State. He was never known as a big advocate of supply-side economics.
He is considered a liberal on abortion and gun control, and has a reputation of being friendly with gay advocacy groups. However, though he won't advocate overturn of Roe v. Wade, he does not encourage abortion and would probably agree to restictions. He believes in state and local gun control policy determinations. On gay issues, he does not go so far as to endorse "gay marriage."
Yes, that is the SINGLE issue he is conservative on. I'm not a single-issue voter.
As far as taxes, Giuliani has refused to take a no new taxes pledge.
His administration left New York with the second highest debt in the nation during his last term in office.
His a radical liberal on social issues, gun control, illegal immigration and global warming.
Being conservative on one issue doesn't make any candidate a conservative. It just makes them not a ideologically-pure liberal.
I think many here feel that way.
I disagree here. Him asking for the same rate as Moveon.org forces the NYT's hand to either break election law by refusing it, or to demonstrate that even they cannot disregard election law.
Tell me, is there anyone left in the US that has not figured out the NYT is partisan?
Yes. My mom. My in-laws. Lots of legacy Northeast liberals who still believe that the NYT is the bastion of journalistic fairness, integrity and objectivity.
What’s a “hate Hillary fetishist”? This is a serious question, as I’ve been pulled away from the web the past couple of weeks, and I must have missed something. Thanks.
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