Posted on 02/29/2008 6:36:54 AM PST by Liz
Thanks for the suggestion, see below.
Thank you, Mike. That misjudgment helped save the country from Rudy. Way to go!
Donna, his former wife, just didn’t know how, or care, to keep her man. I blame her.
Add in Rooty's in your face liberalism and it spelled doom. His quest to be POTUS running as a Republican was a fool's errand of the nth degree.
Mike had on the ruby slippers when he said that----Dorothy told him "wishing will make it so." ROTFL.
CALCOWGIRL'S EXCELLENT RESEARCH CAME UP WITH THIS TIDBIT:
McCain was planning to leave the Republican Party to fight Bush in 2004. The option was being discussed by McCain’s inner circle of advisers and some of his backers have begun setting up policy think-tanks and other groups to lay the ideological foundations for another third-party challenge in the Bull Moose style.
Fox pundit Billy Kristol and Marshall Wittmann started something called the Project for Conservative Reform (aka Kick Conservatives to the Curb Project). The Project for Conservative Reform at the Hudson Institute has assembled a group keeping up a steady stream of criticism aimed at Mr Bush for his reliance on corporate cash. Having lost control of the Senate after the defection of Senator James Jeffords earlier this year, the White House is sensitive to the threat that McCainr could also leave the party. Any such move would almost certainly deny Mr Bush a second term by splitting the Republican vote. Mr Bush is also facing mounting pressure from moderates within his party who, like Mr McCain, are at odds with the tough conservative line taken by the Republican leadership.
“We are making life tougher for the leadership,” Amory Houghton, one of the most prominent Republican moderates in the House of Representatives, said. Mr McCain campaigned energetically for House Republicans during the election and some are coming to see him as their natural leader. “In the past, the House Republican moderates were the most docile group in town,” Marshall Whittmann, a McCain adviser and the director of the project for Conservative Reform, said. “That’s changing.”
Which raises a question. If national-greatness conservatism scorns the Christian right, jettisons the struggle to shrink government, and champions an idealistic foreign policy more likely to be supported by The New York Times than Dick Armey, in what meaningful, contemporary sense is it conservatism at all?
If you haven't seen much of this heresy in the pages of The Weekly Standard, that's because on domestic policy Kristol and Brooks have become a minority in their own office. Unable to turn the Standard into a vehicle for their movement, they've essentially stopped writing about economics and social policy. Instead, Kristol and Wittmann's think tank The Project for Conservative Reform, run out of the Hudson Institute are developing position papers for their movement. And Brooks's next book will aim to infuse national-greatness conservatism with some needed marrow.
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POSTERS COMMENTS If limp-wristed Kristol's national-greatness conservatism scorns the Christian right, jettisons the struggle to shrink government, and champions an idealistic foreign policy, in what meaningful, contemporary sense is it conservatism at all?
How, indeed, can this be called conservatism.
These elite plutocrats are disgusting---you'd think they'd be content w/ the power they now have. Not by a longshot. They will not rest until they wrest control of every political system and agency, and destroy the entire American political process, as we know it, in the bargain.
The Kristol crowd springs from the Everything-For-Us-Nothing-For-You wing of American politics.
No question, these types have their claws into lotsa politicians---they operate in secret, insinuating themselves into the political process advancing their super-secret agendas. Only a select few are in on it--we peons are left in the dark.
The elitist contempt they show for conservatism and all we represent will not go unchallenged. They can kick conservatives all they want---we are not going anywhere. This is our party and we're sticking with it. Kristol can go suck eggs.
Oh, great. And look at what a great job they have done developing Mexico’s potential. sarc/
Well, Rudy and Judi are welcome to each other and appear to probably richly deserve each other. His ex-wives should thank their lucky stars they’re rid of him every day, as should her ex-husbands. Now we’re, hopefully, rid of both of them and should also thank our lucky stars.
For reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973677/posts?page=8#8
Just wanted to clarify that other than a single phrase from me, kluged with words from someone else,
what you just posed are mostly quotes from 2001 articles in the
Times/U.K. and the New Republic.
I hate to be picky, but attributing stuff to me that I didn’t write doesn’t go down well.
I can only imagine what the two of them would have been like in the White House.
his dropping out was the highlight of this depressing primary campaign season for me. the thought of those two in the White House was abominable.
Agreed. I shudder to think of it.
Hannity must be sweating bullets.
Bill Kristol makes my skin crawl. He and his fellow traveler neo-cons are lower than whale sh*t. Especially that &#%&face Richard Perle who was (cough) 'advising' Rummy and the DoD.
Those self serving maggots clamored for war in the middle east, egging Dubya and Rummy on at every turn. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran - they didn't care. Then when things got tough they abandoned Bush like he was a Leper. I read an article where Perle was interviewed during the tough times in Iraq and my head almost exploded. He's a treacherous bottom feeding pos.
A pox on all those Perpetual War neo-cons. IMO they should all be rounded up and exiled to some God forsaken, desolate, deserted island like St Helena (where Napoleon was sent the 2nd time). Let them play their GD Perpetual World Wars on a table top with toy soldiers!
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080229/FREE/567748227/1057
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Next week Mr. Giuliani will also return to the eponymous consulting firm that he founded six years ago. In his absence the two firms have changed dramatically.
Bracewell & Giuliani, based in Houston, has grown hugely, opening offices as far afield as Dubai. Its New York outpost, which opened with three lawyers in 2005, boasts 50 attorneys today. Mr. Giuliani’s own office there has remained untouched, according New York Managing Partner Daniel Connolly.
The consulting firm, on the other hand, has shrunk. Although Mr. Giuliani calls it “more streamlined,” the fact is that the firm has suffered without its namesake, with its client list shrinking from 20 to 15, according to published reports.
The returning lawyer will split his New York time between both offices, as he did prior to his leave of absence. Next week will be spent in heavy re-orientation, getting up to speed on all matters. “He’s always been a quick study,” says Mr. Connolly.
He’s also not one to let a little defeat get him down. Instead, Mr. Giuliani insists that his failure to win a single presidential primary will not hurt him in the long run. “If anything, running for office has broadened me and made me better known,” he says.
All the politicking and national attention hasn’t dimmed his legal ambitions either. He admits that his favorite activity is still arguing cases in front of an appellate—or higher—court. The last time Mr. Giuliani faced the U.S. Supreme Court was in a 1983 bank robbery case, which he distinctly recalls winning by a tally of 8-1. “I would like to argue appeals again,” Mr. Giuliani says. “If there’s a good one around, let me know.”
His wives and his family can’t trust him why did he think voters would ?
Doom on the POS !
Stay Safe Liz !
We know you didn’t write it-—but you have to be given credit for finding it and passing it on.
LOL-——Mexico and Kazakhstan-—Rooty ‘s money spots.
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