Posted on 10/10/2007 11:47:13 AM PDT by TitansAFC
I’m sure thats the case. Still, he’s making the same mistake Guiliani is, think whats good for a metropolis is good for the other 95% of the nation, that doesn’t live in those huge urban jungles.
Too many New Yorkers believe New York City is the center of the universe. Hannity and Rudy among them....
You have two hours of debate with nine candidates. 30% of the time is taken up by the persons asking the questions. 10% of the time is breaks/commercials. That leaves 60% of the time divided nine ways = 8 minutes per candidate to answer approximately 8-10 questions (not always divided equally between candidates and not counting applause time). I think Huckabee probably had about 2 minutes yesterday to talk about where he was coming from on taxes. These aren’t debates, they are sound bites and attempts at “Gotchas”.
Ping!
I'm with you. I think Romney polls lousy in the South because nobody ever heard of him, or at least a lot of folks don't know him. Once he starts winning some early primaries he'll jump into first.
We banded together back in 2006 to keep control of Congress, and we all see how well that worked out.
If we were talking about supporting a decent Republican and easily defeating Hilary, then yes I’d be on board. But you can’t just toss up a pro-choice leader soft on gun control and gay rights, and expect the Bible belt to go along with it. This is literally the lesser of two evils.
I don’t want Hilary to win any more than you. But God a-mighty, I don’t want to spend the next four years defending someone I can’t stand. I voted for Bush in 2004 because I thought he would be more aggressive on convservative issues, and he has done about zero to help the religious right.
I’m not saying I won’t support any Republican. I’m saying don’t dress up a liberal in an elephant costume and tell me to vote for him or else.
When the going gets tough, Rudy bows to liberal pressure. He always has. I agree with some of the others on here: we can’t be sure he’ll do us proud once elected anyway.
I'd rather have Hillary and a rightious and vehement oppositional Republican Party than Rudy and the Rinocrats rolling over again and again. I like gridlock.
You haven’t done your homework if you like Romney. He is a “tell them what I think they want to hear guy”. Go back to his campaigns for the Senate against Ted (which he lost) and his campaign for Governor. He has one set of values for Mass. voters and another set for the country. He is a lot slicker and polished than John Edwards of the Democrat party, but he is his equal when it comes to being a hypocrit.
If Rudy gets the GOP nod...Bloomberg is going to cut him to shreds with some of his chump change.... bet on it
Gridlock IS the best we could hope for, but you has better do a State by State analysis of what is probably going to happen in the Senate and the House with a Hillary win. There wont be enough votes to create gridlock and Hillary will get her way on everything. Check the math.
Don't know where Maggie Gallagher lives, but Rudy's past almost always comes up when talking about him. In fact, it came up almost immediately when I attended a GOP happy hour on the hill last Friday.
That also includes any of the above, whether they have a "D" OR an "R" after their names.
In other words, I WOULD rather vote for Homer Simpson than either Hillary, Obama, RINO-rudy, etc.
Can I be any more clear on this?
“He has one set of values for Mass. voters and another set for the country. He is a lot slicker and polished than John Edwards of the Democrat party, but he is his equal when it comes to being a hypocrit.”
Amen old pro, I second and third and fourth it all! Mitt is a flip-flopper worse than John Kerry. He’d say Martians waged war on Jupiter if it won a Republican vote.
Yes, the math stinks. My answer is to pray and pray hard, very hard to our Creator to preserve our freedom.
I’m not voting for Rudy under any circumstances. There is absolutely nothing that Rudy or the rinos running the RNC can do or say to change my mind.
Was it just me, or did anyone else notice the NYer love fest between Rudy and Christopher Matthews at the GOP debate???
Well my advice to you if you feel that strongly is start now to create either a new Conservative Party or challenge the Rino’s in the Republican Party. It is too late to do much about 08, but every movement had to start somewhere. It may take 12 or even 20 years and it will be an evolving process requiring a lot a patience, hard work and fund raising. I am too old for that stuff, so I will take my chances with what we have. I wish you well if you and other YOUNG conservatives want to take on this challenge. From an old Army guy may I give you a little hint of what will be the biggest foreign affairs issue in those future years... CHINA.
You may as well if Rudy gets the GOP nod......
This is the point I’m trying to get across. Folks like Hannity are trying to portray Guiliani as a good Republican choice.
If the election comes down to Hilary vs Rudy, it won’t be a simple case of blue vs. red. It’ll be blue vs purple.
So they fall back on saying, “well, yeah, he’s bad, but he’s not that bad,” I don’t want to vote for someone just because they’re not as bad a Hilary. That’s like eating pizza for dinner because it’s not as bad as McDonald’s....not the point!
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