Posted on 03/06/2008 10:18:38 AM PST by kingattax
John McCain is the GOP candidate for president. But who will run for Veep? One of the smartest decisions George W. Bush made was choosing Dick Cheney. Contrary to the Cheney image peddled by the hysterical Left, a sort of a projected Darth Vader on the screen of their childish nightmares, in reality Dick Cheney is wise, experienced, thoughtful, calm, humorous, and ready to step up to be president. Cheney is not a hot electoral commodity; he excels at governance.
So does Rudy Giuliani.
McCain has his pick of running mates, but Rudy stands out. He is younger than McCain, but not so much as to create a negative contrast with the presidential candidate. Having recovered from his cancer scare, Rudy can campaign vigorously. Giuliani was the best mayor New York City has had in the last fifty years, by objective standards of markedly improved economic health, lower unemployment, lower welfare rolls and much lower crime. In New York Rudy demonstrated the power of conservative ideas to fix what had become a liberal disaster area. And that was before 9/11, when he performed with real bravery and intelligence.
Rudy is very smart and well-informed, and has a good sense of humor. Like Barack Obama, he can think on his feet, but he is far wiser and more experienced than Obama. He has decades of executive experience starting in the Reagan Justice Department. He understands market economics and how it can be mobilized to enhance the general welfare. Giuliani appeals to liberal states and big cities. He successfully fought the Mafia. And he is a walking reminder of the terrorist menace. (It would be fun to see him debating a Democrat denier about the war.)
Mitt Romney comes closest to Rudy in executive experience and overall competence. But there is something off-putting about Romney, a sort of mannequin perfection that does not connect with people. That is not Romney's own fault, but I find it undeniable. Rudy has the common touch -- at least for New Yorkers.
Rudy has been unfairly slandered as being pro-abortion. That was always malicious nonsense. Giuliani is a social conservative along the lines of the Manhattan Institute, the think tank that originated many of his best ideas as mayor. He believes in families, parental authority, and the preciousness of life. His bottom line during the campaign was that he had in fact ended up reducing abortions in New York City. That is a darned good outcome in a city where the establishment is rigidly leftist. A strong anti-abortion amendment to the US Constitution is not going to pass, as a practical matter. And any moral legislation to abortion has to balance the delicate question of the mother's health against the life of the fetus.
The great abomination today is that the MTV culture has trivialized the immensely serious choice of aborting a fetus, the most agonizing moral dilemma that most of us will ever have to cope with. By trivializing life in the womb, the pro-abortion crowd has become a cult of feticide for nothing more than one's personal convenience. In those hard-to-change circumstances, Giuliani decided to go for the bottom line of saving lives. One can debate the pros and cons of that position, but it is grossly unfair to call it pro-abortion.
In sum, McCain might place Giuliani on his short list of potential running mates. We could do far worse than having Rudy Giuliani as Vice President, especially in a White House that must constantly battle the croc-infested swamplands of Washington. And in eight years, Giuliani will be as old as John McCain is today
If Mr. McCain were to choose Mr. Giuliani, that would confirm for me that I’d be voting third party.
Rudy would be a lousy choice if McCain expects to attract the conservatives enough so that they will hold their noses and vote for him. Guliani is anti-gun, pro-amnesty, pro-sanctuary cities, pro-abortion ....why would he make a good Veep????
LOL!
oh yeah, like McCain isn’t enough of a RINO he needs to shore up the RINO dept, LOL!!!
LMAO, that very succintly sums up my reaction as well!
“Rudy has been unfairly slandered as being pro-abortion. That was always malicious nonsense. Giuliani is a social conservative along the lines of the Manhattan Institute, the think tank that originated many of his best ideas as mayor.”
This is pure bullsh!t. It entirely destroys the little credibility of the braindead author. Up until the 2008 election, Mr. Giuliani was actually in favor of keeping PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTIONS legal.
When did this develop?
American non-Thinker
I thought the Republicans were stupid for running Bob Dole. They’re doing much worse this year.
I just loved the photo op with McCain and Bush. That’s the stuff a dozen Democrat TV commercials will be made of.
Why should they care about the base?
Most of you are slaves to fear and will vote for the Republican ticket no matter who’s on it. The FR polls shows as much.
NO! Just . . . no.
The question is, If the POTUS is taken by anybody other than a psycho, who do you want making the subsequent decisions?
veeps are sometimes chosen from those who tried but failed to get the potus nomination
but not from among the absolute losers
rudy had one major constituency - snowbirds living in florida
the rest of his support was created by his personal pr network
i am going to hold my nose and vote for mcpain, hoping to help prevent getting billary/obama
he could chose ronald reagan as his veep
it won’t make me hold my nose any less
his admin will be HIS and no veep of his will be a major policy influence on it - no veep is
i don’t give a &%%$$0 who his veep is, it makes no difference whatsoever - accept to the ignorant sheeple
any conservative who would give their vote to billary/obama due to mcpain’s veep choice simply asks conservatism to commit political suicide in 2008
you only get ANY voice if you sit at the table, not if, in a fit of childish pique, you pick up your ball and go home
the mcpain veep choice will be
younger
married with children
NOT holding a federal office
an incumbent goper, prominent, well known, well liked in their own state
with no past positions offensive to conservatives
very good, smart and amiable communicator
someone from whom those qualities will come out in a very, very active grass roots campaign agenda
someone who the media will cover, often, as a rising goper
someone whose presentation will appear the antithesis of many of mcpain’s negatives
“Rudy for Veep?”
Why have two “liberal conservatives” on the same ticket?
Rudy is MY choice for Attorney General.
What an insult to Cheney. Giuliani can't hold a candle to Cheney.
And he's a liberal, to boot.
Oh, Great! The man that wants to grab your guns, and thinks "Freedom is about authority", as AG? Frankly, I think Giuliani should be prohibited from holding any position of power in this country. Put him on the ballot with the guy that wants to outlaw free speech in elections and the fascists have the perfect ticket.
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