Bernard Kerik's royalties on this book have so far totaled $75,954.52 for contributing 11-sentences.
(1) secrecy about his clients, and his global business dealings;
(2) rampant speculation about Rooty's porking his mistress on the taxpayers' dime and hiding the bills in obscure city agencies. At the time Rooty's mistress had no visible means of support, shopped at Vera Wang, and lived in a pricey NYC apartment and a Hamptons condo with a taxpayer-subsidized 7-man NYPD security detail at her beck and call 24/7;
(3) Rooty's asssociations with mobbed-up Bernie Kerik, Rooty's bodyguard, driver and Police Commissioner (in that order); Kerik was Rooty's factotum, the yes-man who signed off on the mistress' NYPD security, the man who knows where all of Rooty's bodies are buried.
Speculation remains as to Giuliani's pardoning Kerik, an admitted felon, in order to position Kerik in Homeland Security (a bonanze for Rudy's global security businesses). Kerik is currently under investigation for lying to the White House at the time Giuliani recommended Pres Bush hire Kerik for Homeland Security.
Questions have also risen as to Rooty's health when he turned his plane around and had to be hospitalized for a severe headache recently. Apparently individuals who survived cancer are more susceptible to viruses and such, that can escalate rapidly into more serious medical conditions. Rudy should be asked whether he might experience medical emergencies as prez. Medical research should be made available as to the health dangers cancer survivors might be susceptible to, including a cancer relapse.
Fred Thompson had 1%, with slightly fewer votes than Rep. Ron Paul (also at 1%)We'll see. I'm very skeptical of this. How could this one poll be so different than other polls showing Fred at least tied for 3rd place in Iowa?
IOWA: VOTE FRED
Regarding Romney. I can still remember the relentless media pounding that Ronald Reagan endured. The media absolutely hates Romney’s guts and refuse to give him the slightest break - even FOX News piles on. Yet Romney marches on with head held high. The cheap shots bounce off, just like Ronald Reagan. I am so proud to support Mitt Romney, win or lose.
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We'll know shortly.
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The people of Iowa cannot be that stupid!
ML/NJ
Fred Thompson had 1%,
Oh come on. I don’t believe that. Fred has been running around Iowa for a week and a half and only 150 people are planning on voting for him out of 15000???? Does not pass the smell test to me.
There never was a Huckabee boom except in the MSM’s mind. Expect these useless polls to get closer to reality the day of the caucuses/primaries so the pollsters can say “see, we told you so all along.” Not buying it.
Giuliani was destined to flop bigtime.......the dirt oozing out helped bury him. Not to mention the dirt yet to come about him and his mistress cavorting on public funds (she was living and shopping in pricey NYC and the Hamptons with no visible means of support unless you count the bulge behind Rudy’s zipper).
Watching Giuliani navigate the political process is like watching a horror film festival-—Rooty’s had more sequels than Bela Lugosi. No matter how many stakes are driven into his presidential aspirations, the Rudester comes back from the dead, climbs out of his coffin with the same evil smirk, to wreak havoc on our political process again and again. Rooty’s got the resilience of Count Dracula and the resume of a calculating conman......not exactly star material for the White House.
Hooray...the hate campaign is succeeding. The pundits must be so proud. /s
15000 Republicans is a huge number, and greater still if they are all going to attend the caucus
If remotely true this means that Republicans at large want more government and taxes, lax borders, and little or no change.
'We' are happy with high taxes, socialism, and abortions. 'We' want every illegal alien on our soil to have a more than fair shot at their version of the American Dream - and damn anyone who says otherwise.
I am, however, to be consoled by the fact that 'we' are apparently tolerant enough to endorse a candidate who follows a minority religion.
The only conservative still in he mix is portrayed as being in a dead heat with the only loon still in the mix...
I'm starting to feel as though I'm being asked to vote in a parallel universe and that all of my decisions are being made well before I cast that vote.
Any fight over hanging chads in the 2008 election will be for show only because the outcome will be pretty much the same no matter who wins.
“Fred Thompson had 1%, “
I think it’s safe to stop reading right there.
Everyone and their dog (and probably also their cat) are trying to take a poll right now, and pawn it off as big news.
After reading posts on FR for a month or more regarding the GOP candidates, I am afraid that the GOP candidate will lose because of the vitriol among the supposed GOP base. Is FR the GOP base? I hope not, because if it is, we are doomed to elect a Democrat as President. If that happens we’ll have only ourselves to blame.
My opinion is that each GOP candidate has something good to offer, and each has some weaknesses. Anyone of them is better than Hilary, Obama or Edwards, IMHO.
The problem with our current early caususes is there is too much time for nitpicking. I am diappointed in Fred Thompson’s showing, as I think he seems presidential and will certainly have the gumption to stand up to silly leftist media types such as the last moderator in Iowa. But, Fred, for some reason is not catching on, so I will continue to look at Romney and McCain as my next preferences.
I can tell you truthfully, I think Romney looks like he would be capable of governing, and also of debating with the Democrats. I wish, however, he would get more of Fred’s gumption. Regarding his faith, it’s a non-issue for me. I’m a Catholic and I know personally quite a few Mormons through my interest in genealogy. I have never met a Mormon who was not decent and friendly.
Re: McCain - his resume looks fairly good. But, he pushed through that stupid McCain-Feingold legislation, and he often tries to be friendly with the media so as to be liked. He is not my 1st or second choice. In fact he is a distant third or fourth.
Duncan Hunter seems good on all issues and he can certainly debate with the rest of them, but the MSM ignores him, and so he cannot get any traction at all. I’m thinking Hunter will withdraw after Iowa and throw his lot in with Romney. I could be wrong.
Huckabee is not very attractive as a serious candidate (to me).
Guiliani really has too many negative factors, both politically and personally to have much of a realistic chance to get the nod. Still, he looks good on national security issues.
I think the senile old bastard is simply lying about the poll results!
Adding up the numbers Novak cites, you get 21% undecided. I'm sure that there's at least that many Iowa voters who don't know who they're going to vote for. But pollsters usually report the undecideds, and it's wierd of Novak not to mention them, because they amplify the scale of what Novak's reporting about.
Both Thompson and Paul, representing opposite type voters getting just 1%? And why mention two candidates getting 1% and not mention the other guy getting such low numbers (Hunter)
But now Novak isn't citing a poll we can all go read. Someone showed him numbers. And wouldn't it be so easy for Novak to claim he misread 10% as 1.0% if caught in such a lie? Let's look at the numbers again, presuming 10%, instead of 1%. Now, the numbers add up to 97%, leaving a very normal 3% for none of the above.
A freeper assignment.... Who the heck is the “private” entity that did this poll.
The less than 1% for Fred is so off the charts it doesn’t pass the SMELL TEST.
To make it’s way to a Novak column with his circulation is unbelievable.
1. Who commissioned the “poll”?
2. Who conducted the “poll”?
Puleeeeze, a “private corporate interest” commissions an “oversize” survey which shows Romney at 30% and Fred at 1%. What, no name for any of the parties involved in either commissioning or conducting the survey? Wonder if there might not be an agenda at work here?!!!!!
This thing stinks to high heaven.
Onetime front-runner Giuliani's decline has been attributed to:(1) secrecy about his clients, and his global business dealings;
(2) rampant speculation about Rooty's porking his mistress on the taxpayers' dime and hiding the bills in obscure city agencies. At the time Rooty's mistress had no visible means of support, shopped at Vera Wang, and lived in a pricey NYC apartment and a Hamptons condo with a taxpayer-subsidized 7-man NYPD security detail at her beck and call 24/7;
(3) Rooty's asssociations with mobbed-up Bernie Kerik, Rooty's bodyguard, driver and Police Commissioner (in that order); Kerik was Rooty's factotum, the yes-man who signed off on the mistress' NYPD security, the man who knows where all of Rooty's bodies are buried.
and (4)...
However, this is what I want: A fiscal conservative--a strong economy is the bottom line with me--and a social liberal--liberty means individual liberty. Both of these positions are liberal (dispite its claim to the word liberal as an excellent example of Orwellian newspeak, the Left is the opposite of liberal).