Posted on 10/17/2007 4:40:11 AM PDT by Liz
After New Yorkers (and others) became outraged that a California supporter threw a fund-raiser for him asking for donations in the denomination of $9.11, the Giuliani campaign quietly began returning the checks. It's a small gesture..... but it's something. Is Giuliani finally recognizing how offensive it is for him to try to own the September 11 tragedy? Is he taking note that if his home city finishes turning against him, he'll have a hard time convincing people that he has a great mayoral legacy? Does this signify personal growth on his part? Eh, probably not. It's just $9.11, people.
Did I say anything about the check story other than it was disgusting? No. I will bring up AGAIN though that Giuliani is a voting member of StonewallVets. Stonewall, run by the Mob, Started by Henry Hay, an admitted communist, for NAMBLA.
That story, there is no end to.
I don’t care about the checks other than they are disgusting.
I care about people making clubs out of NAMBLA though and being in position of power.
I’m no fan of Rudy, but this is ridiculous.
ACTIONS are worth a THOUSAND words, or PICTURES,
and RINO-rudy's disgusting and shameless use of 9/11 in an effort to place himself into the highest office in the land, is the most disgusting ACTION of all.
YOU, RIBPA, should be the one that is ashamed for supporting such a vile, petty little political opportunist as RINO-rudy.
A vast majority of Republican voters do not frequent places like FreeRepubic. The very issue you are so enamored with Rudy over, the WOT and his stature on it after 9/11 is why he still leads.
The average Republican sees two things in Rudy, his image after 9/11 and the R after his name. It is like an Hollywood set, a really nice facade with a big Republican sign out front but an empty building inside full of things not quite Republican.
So they all know his name and extrapolate from his “tough post 9/11” image that he is is a conservative in all regards, every room in the building full of Conservative positions.
Thing is the time is coming for the Republicans to get off the tourist tram and enter that building with the facade. When they see the rooms devoid of Conservative principle, well those numbers will shift, and shift hard. Republicans will head back to the real world and find a man that is just a strong on terror, but was built from the ground up as a Conservative.
That's right. Compromise is what made this country great! A populist autocrat is exactly what the GOP needs.
Unlike chuckie schumer, and his fellow liberal, RINO-rudy, Fred Thompson won't push down little old ladies and step on small children in an effort to get to the cameras. :)
On Sep 12, 2001, I said Giulani would be our next President. Watch a replay of those terrible days, and let me know if anyone running could ever do something similar.
IMO, the answer is clearly no.
LOL. All he has to do is pick up a phone. Is he able to do that????
Another Rudy bashing thread...Free Republic: “Doing what we can to create voter apathy in the republican party and to guarantee a Hillary victory.”
You need to change your tagline.
(Truth : RINO Rooty Toots :: Kryptonite : Superman)
You see that is a very narrow qualification for a Conservative president. That is all Rudy has going for him, and it looks good right now, since that is all the majority knows.
People usually bash anything liberal around here. No surprise, right?
Watch how George Bush handled himself after those days & you will see the same thing. I thought he, as Rudy - was magnificent.
But now the dust has settled & I am seeing things differently. Bush hasn't turned out to be the President I thought he would be after those days & I don't believe Rudy would either. We were ALL united after 9/11 - we certainly aren't now. I don't believe you should make a presidential choice based on that event. We were all standing together as Americans then - we're not so much now.
Now, can you tell me what, exactly, Rudi did to "curb" abortions? Did he give speeches? Did he initiate counseling groups or offer alternatives?
He keeps getting the credit for an upturn in the economy and for a nationwide decrease in abortions as if he did something to stop them and I'm curious what he actually did.
If, like most dems and libs, WE voted with EMOTION trumping a logical THOUGHT process, then we MIGHT vote like you, for a petty little political opportunist who his anathema to our party and our country's CORE PRINCIPLES and VALUES.
Now, I know all about Rooty Toot's FAILURES in his seven and a half years as mayor before 9/11. But I'm curious, what specifically did Rooty Toot do on 9/11?
Do you think that Admiral Husband E. Kimmell should have been the GOP presidential nominee back in 1944?
Are you a big Ray Nagin fan, because he actually did a BETTER job in the days leading up to Katrina than Rooty Tood did in the days leading up to 9/11.
“Another step in rebuilding a strong diplomacy will be to make changes in the State Department and the Foreign Service. The time has come to refine the diplomats’ mission down to their core purpose: presenting U.S. policy to the rest of the world. Reforming the State Department is a matter not of changing its organizational chart — although simplification is needed — but of changing the way we practice diplomacy and the way we measure results. Our ambassadors must clearly understand and clearly advocate for U.S. policies and be judged on the results. Too many people denounce our country or our policies simply because they are confident that they will not hear any serious refutation from our representatives. The American ideals of freedom and democracy deserve stronger advocacy. And the era of cost-free anti-Americanism must end.”
>>>Watch a replay of those terrible days, and let me know if anyone running could ever do something similar.
Governor Frank Keating
Rooty Toot gets a bigger pass from Hannity that Hitlery gets from Chris Matthews or Katie Couric.
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