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Rudy's Running (To take out Romney?)
Weakless Standard ^ | Wednesday June 8, 2011 | Bill Kristol

Posted on 06/08/2011 5:01:12 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

I'm told by two reliable sources that Rudy Giuliani intends to run for the GOP nomination for president in 2012. He may throw his hat in the ring soon.

Rudy's theory of the race: In the fall of 2007, he decided he couldn't compete with both Mitt Romney and John McCain in New Hampshire, and disastrously decided to try to pull back there and pitch his tent in Florida. This year, he'll commit everything to New Hampshire, where he thinks he has a good shot at beating Romney—whom he criticized there earlier this week. He then thinks he can beat whichever more socially conservative candidate(s) is left by winning what are still likely to be winner-take-all primaries in big states like California, New York, and New Jersey.

Rudy's message: I'm tough enough to put our fiscal house in order and to protect us from enemies abroad. The U.S. in 2012 is in bad shape—like New York in 1993.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: backstabberromney; benedictromney; nevertrustromney; palin; poorsportromney; rinoromney; rinorudy; romney; rudy; rudy4palin; rudy4romney; sarahpalin; shamelessromney; spoilerromney
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To: indylindy
I can assure you that FR will never be a Rooty site. There was a pretty large purge of long-time regulars here back in 2008 when his candidacy exposed a serious rift in the GOP.

I'm sure it's only a matter of time before William Kristol or some other "neo-conservative" jack@ss comes out and starts pushing an unbeatable GOP ticket of Rudy Giuliani and Joe Lieberman for 2012. LOL.

21 posted on 06/08/2011 5:26:16 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: Sacajaweau
I like Rudy.

Let the bull$hit begin with the road to the White house and may the best woman win!

22 posted on 06/08/2011 5:27:00 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Sacajaweau

I like Rudy too, but his angry son, shoplifting daughter and three marriages won’t sit well in a national election.


23 posted on 06/08/2011 5:27:02 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Bigtigermike

Surely Rudy knows he has no chance after 2008, and I do think he felt screwed by the Mittster. Whether he felt screwed enough to help Palin, who is pretty far on the other side of most issues than he is, is debatable. But I’d welcome him in the NH race if he weakens Mitt.


24 posted on 06/08/2011 5:28:14 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: Bigtigermike

No thank you


25 posted on 06/08/2011 5:29:00 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: Siena Dreaming
I've got no use for either one. But if you held a gun to my head, I'd pick Romney over Rooty because he at least has a religion and can control his schlong.

Either would be a vast improvement over ObaMao. But so would the oak tree in my front yard.

26 posted on 06/08/2011 5:29:27 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: indylindy
I gotta give credit to a former Freeper named "George W. Bush" (yes, that was his screen name), who posted this classic gem back in 2006 when Giuliani was being pushed as a great presidential candidate:

"He is, at best, the solution to problems the rest of us don't have."

27 posted on 06/08/2011 5:30:00 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: Sacajaweau
I like Rudy

Don't say that too loud, too often or too strongly around here or you won't make your ten-year anniversary. But he certainly is a more acceptable RINO, if there is such a thing, than Romney who has changed his stripes more often than the cat in Alice's tree. I can see Rudy and Sarah getting along -- they both have courage and have been tested in ways that most of us would fail.

28 posted on 06/08/2011 5:32:03 PM PDT by CedarDave (I agree with Obama's immigration comments in El Paso: We do need moats filled with alligators)
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To: indylindy

No it is not! Rudy and Romney can have their cat fight elsewhere! There will be no campaign for abortionist liberals on FR!


29 posted on 06/08/2011 5:34:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: Bigtigermike
I believe that Rudy may be a stalking horse, it may sound strange but his comments over the past few months seem to be that he despises Romney and really respect......ahem* Palin. Who knows!

I doubt Rudy or anyone else would get in the race just to weaken another candidate, but seriously, do we really want to play these games?

Rudy is really not much of a conservative. Economics, foreign policy, defense, he is probably fine. Unfortunately, his liberalism/libertarianism on social issues is a terrible weakness. We need a candidate that can unite economic and social conservatives. Alienate social conservatives and we will not win in 2012. Giuliani is simply not an acceptable candidate.

30 posted on 06/08/2011 5:37:16 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: CaptainK

Unfortunately, I thin the “short, bald, lisping Italian-American New Yorker with glasses” thing would have rendered him completely unelectable even if he were totally solid on all the issues.


31 posted on 06/08/2011 5:37:17 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: Sacajaweau
I like Rudy.

What do you like best about him:

His pro-homosexual agenda support or his anti 2nd Amendment stance?

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32 posted on 06/08/2011 5:40:33 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: indylindy
Palin hasn’t even entered the race.

Which does not mean she will not run. Romney is talking himself out of the party core, and Sarah doesn't have to pay one cent to do it.

33 posted on 06/08/2011 5:43:12 PM PDT by He Rides A White Horse ((unite))
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To: CaptainK
I like Rudy too, but his angry son, shoplifting daughter and three marriages won’t sit well in a national election.

Do you like his pro-abortion viewpoints?

34 posted on 06/08/2011 5:44:07 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: Bigtigermike; mojitojoe; Al B.
Follow Lame Cherry once and a while....lol.
"Just as a note in this, this blog fully intends to push, push, shove, shove, and do whatever else is necessary that when Sarah Palin is President, that Rudy Giuliani and Mark Levin are going to be at the head of Justice to conduct Grand Juries to sort out, root out, and indict all these Obama terrorists, including Barack Hussein Obama."
35 posted on 06/08/2011 5:46:39 PM PDT by onyx (If you truly like and support Sarah Palin and want on her BUSY Ping List, let me know!)
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To: Bigtigermike

meh, dope.


36 posted on 06/08/2011 5:47:04 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Jim Robinson
Let's see - pro-abortion to the point of getting an award from NARAL.

Anti-gun to the point of addressing a Brady rally.

Pro-AGW.

Authoritarian control freak.

Pro-gay.

What could possibly go wrong? /Sarcasm with a capital 'S'.

37 posted on 06/08/2011 5:48:15 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: onyx

Don’t even get me started on Rudy pimping Bernie Kerik to Bush for Homeland Security.


38 posted on 06/08/2011 5:49:53 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Longbow1969

But an establishment Rino would have a great shot at VP.

Rudy and Mitt remember Reagan had to have his Bush Sr.


39 posted on 06/08/2011 5:51:31 PM PDT by mrsmith
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To: Jim Robinson

That is good to hear. I was starting to worry. Rooty is no asset to anybody. We went through all of that before.

He won’t gain any traction this time either.


40 posted on 06/08/2011 5:52:48 PM PDT by dforest
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