Posted on 10/02/2005 9:21:43 AM PDT by wagglebee
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Sunday he will contemplate next year whether to run for president in 2008.
"I will be considering it next year," Giuliani said during a visit to Denmark. But he added that playing with the idea of running for the Republican nomination for president did not mean he would actually do it.
"Sometime you warm up and get ready and you don't get in and pitch," he told reporters, in a baseball analogy.
Giuliani who was praised for his leadership following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, thanked Danish firefighters who raised $8,400 in support for their New York colleagues.
"To us it was the only thing we could do, raise money and show our support," firefighter Jens Hjorth said.
Eight firefighters from the station raised the money by recording a CD with six songs called "The Skyline Changed." They sold 27,000 copies.
On Sunday, the band members handed over a copy of the CD to Giuliani, who in return gave them a New York Fire Department hat.
Giuliani was in Denmark to speak at a business leadership conference in the Danish capital on Monday.
In 2000, Giuliani ran for the U.S. Senate, but dropped out after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
-PJ
When push comes to shove and Rudy is the Republicans' best hope, Pat Robertson and company will bring the social conservatives to the table. Rudy will soften a bit here and there, and there will be a "meeting of the minds" between Rudy and the conservative leaders.
I feel the same, but if he runs against the Hildabeast,
I'm for Guili!
Here's a quick google link regarding your quote. I made it fairly selective, only 17 hits:
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Rudy+Giuliani+%22June+10%2C+1994%22&num=10&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=New+York+Times&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=images
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Conservative? Really? Since when?
This is why presidential candidates lose a substantial number of moderate voters any time they appear like this in photographs:
Giuliani's appearance in drag in a Broadway show in and of itself would have been bad enough, but when you couple that with his marital problems and his bizarre living arrangements late in his term as New York mayor (he was sharing living quarters with a gay couple in Manhattan while his ex-wife -- who had no formal position with the City of New York -- occupied the mayor's residence at Gracie Mansion) . . . well, you can be rest assured that nobody with even a minimal desire for an emotionally stable President is going to vote for him.
Uh, OK -- I shoulda known better than to assume that. LOL.
Sorry about that.
His "speech impediment" isn't a New York accent, either -- it's a lisp.
If he were a serious candidate, I'd say stick a fork in him, 'cause he's done. However, I've said here for a long time that he is not -- nor will he ever be -- a serious White House contender.
What is real political suicide is for the GOP to abandon social issues.
"Ma, Ma, Where's My Pa? Gone to the White House - Ha Ha Ha!"
Arguably the nadir of American mudslinging, this attempt to raise the morality issue did little to derail Grover Cleveland's campaign against James G. Blaine. Also, Hamilton and Franklin were wayward men as well. Enough time has passed to negate the shock value of raising the Donna "Vagina Monologues" Hanover issue against Rudy. This pales in comparison to Rudy's handling of 9-11, which stands out all the more after Hurricane Katrina's exposure of bumbling at all levels of government.
It's become part of the job description for the White House, and I'm sure Rudy Giuliani knows this better than anyone else.
Giuliani in 2008...
Does anybody remember Vice President Rockefeller? Moderate (or worse) on domestic issues, hawkish on foreign issues?
Anti-Arab Warrior Rudy over disgraceful Arab appeaser Condi any day.
That will not happen in the primaries. Most of the names floating around as GOP candidates for President are moderates/liberals. They will split the moderate/liberal vote among them, leaving the bulk of the conservative base free to support a single conservative candidate.
Giuliani's sole appeal is as a maverick. Once he begins changing and panders to the right, he will lose that appeal. The media will turn against him as a phony.
Yet he knows he cannot win without the conservative base. With his liberal history, gaining that base is impossible. He will never be trusted by the right. Once he starts trying to gain that trust, his appeal among his supporters will be lost.
It's a catch-22 that makes him unelectable.
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