Posted on 02/17/2006 8:01:45 PM PST by Mia T
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This is HARDBALL on MSNBC.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
[NOTE: My comments in blue.]
MATTHEWS: We're back with Anne Kornblut of "The New York Times" and Dana Milbank of "The Washington Post." Let's talk about Gotham's candidates for president.
First, Rudolph Giuliani, the pro-choice, pro-gay rights, former mayor spent today, or the day in Orlando speaking to a conference of Evangelicals.
Dana, he's up to it, isn't he? This is below the radar. This is Rudy campaigning for president in the south.
MILBANK: This is about as convincing as Jerry Falwell at the gay pride parade.
MATTHEWS: You don't buy this?
MILBANK: Well, he can try to do it. But, look, he faces an awful uphill battle in winning over the typical Republican voter in a primary. Now, if the election was fought on national security, he is fine. But he's never going to convince them that he is one of them, that he is a religious conservative.
KORNBLUT: Right and not only that, but he's going to be in a death struggle with John McCain for the exact same constituency.
MATTHEWS: Let me tell you something. I'll say it here a thousand time. Watch Rudolph Giuliani. Watch him. Security is the issue in this country. Whoever is the next president is going to be seen as more on the ball than even this president on security and terrorism. This country is not going sort on terrorism. We are going to get smarter on it is my hunch.
And Rudy is the guy to do it. And he can be an SOB in many ways. But this country may really want an SOB, a really tough cop as the next president. So watch Rudy, I'm saying it.
Now here is Hillary Clinton, that other New Yorker in the subway series. A new Gallup poll just came out. "USA TODAY" Gallup poll, it shows that 16 percent say that they'll definitely vote for Hillary right now, 32 percent say they might vote for her.
But here's the dagger in the back. Fifty-one percent say they would definitely not vote for Hillary Clinton already the campaign hasn't begun.
KORNBLUT: I mean, this is exactly what Democrats are worried about is that already people have made up their minds. I would argue, I guess, that it is awfully early. We all know how early it is to be talking about this.
MATTHEWS: Definitely.
MATTHEWS: But there's lot of tooth behind that. If somebody tells a pollster, I've already made up my mind definitely.
KORNBLUT: And, look, I know more Democrats who believe this though than Republicans. A lot of Republicans say that this is a deceptive number, that once she gets out there with all of her money running against who, Giuliani or McCain, the numbers may not be that weak. [She has 100% name recognition, Anne. You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear. Even when the sow isn't hillary.]
MATTHEWS: How much of that is don't throw me in that briar patch, Dana? We're so afraid of Hillary. Please don't run her against us. She'll kill us.
MILBANK: Anne is right that these polls are completely useless because you don't know what the alternative is. But the fact is that she... [Earth to Dana: 51% would vote for their mother-in-law before they would vote for HER.]
MATTHEWS: OK. McCain against Hillary. Who wins?
MATTHEWS: Well, let me ask you about these definite numbers in a poll. Do you believe the definite? Do you believe somebody right in 2006 knows how they are going to vote in 2008?
MILBANK: I think they definitely think that's what they are going to do right now, but they have no idea what they are going to be doing in a couple years. And Hillary is going to have the opposite problem of Rudy. And that is she's absolutely fine with her base if she decides to run. But she is seemingly incapable of crossing over.
MATTHEWS: The poll was taken over the week right through Sunday, the Gallup poll. And the Gallup poll is, of course, the most prestigious poll there is right now and has been for years.
Dana, do you think she's paying the price for her plantation remark last week?
KORNBLUT: And I would add to that. It's 51 percent say definitely not. Remember the margin that's we've been talking about in the last few presidential races, 51 percent is terrible, but all she would have to do is bump it by a few numbers, a few percentage points and be OK. [I can see why Pinch hired you, Anne. Your Alice-in-Wonderland illogic is quintessential New York Times. With 100% name recognition and roughly 10% corruption recognition (thanks in no small measure to your rag), missus clinton has only one way to go. And it isn't up.]
... Anyway, thank you Anne Kornblut of "The New York Times," Dana Milbank of "The Washington Post."
Join us again tomorrow night at 5:00 and 7:00 Eastern for more HARDBALL. Right now it is time for "THE ABRAM'S REPORT" with Dan.
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COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006
I was referring to Maher but the "comedian and celebrity "tag could apply to either ;-)
And you refuse to give any reasonable and convincing reasons as to why Giuliani fits this description. He has done not one thing to show he'd be competent as POTUS, let alone lead in the war on terror.
Having a "global character", (whatever that means), may sound nifty but it won't sell in Dixie or the West. And outside of Greenwich Village and San Francisco, I doubt this will sway the masses -
Rudy Giuliani
..if Evita chooses to run, no matter what the polls, it is beyond dangerous to be found standing in her way...
..she, unlike Bill , is an ideologue--fully committed to her cause and herself.
I'm disappointed by your misuse of that photo. (Ad hominem in drag is still ad hominem.)
If post-9/11 New York City is a microcosm of post-9/11 America, (and it is) then how can you say he hasn't demonstrated his competence to be POTUS during these perilous times?
Should be said again..
thanx :)
It bothers me that I finally agree with Bill M.
cognitive dissonance ;)
thx :)
BUMP...PURRRFECT
I finally found it. ;)
thx :)
ping
I agree with all you stated.
As a NYer, I also remember saying that Hillary could never become Senator of my state. That the NY press wouldn't give her a free ride. Boy, was I wrong. The press protected her very large behind.
Had I known, I would have been forced to take poetic license. "House" doesn't quite cut it, metaphorically. ;)
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Hosepipe says ...What Maher says would be true IF massive democrat voter fraud was not always present and will really be present in 2008..
Would be different if ANY republican official cared about it.. They DON'T.. therefore it is being planned and will be executed in spades.. in 2008.. Treason and voter fraud are merely political tactics these days.. legal by neglect of prosecution.. Washington D.C. is political BIZARRO WORLD..
Be Ever Vigilant!
Hosepipe nails it, indeed. bump.
thx malia... Mahalo. :)
thx blackie :)
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