Posted on 08/22/2006 8:38:59 AM PDT by presidio9
Republicans relish the prospect of Hillary Clinton running for president in 2008, just so they can vote against her, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani was quoted as saying.
Giuliani, who is expected to be a leading candidate for the Republican Party nomination, described the New York senator and former first lady as a polarising force who ignited strong passions across the political spectrum, the New York Post reported.
"Democrats seem to support her as their main candidate for president -- she's way ahead of anybody else -- and it seems like Republicans are just waiting for her to be the candidate so they can vote against her," he said.
"She definitely creates passions on both sides," he added.
"Hillary probably has the distinction of being the best fundraiser for the Democratic Party -- and the best fundraiser for the Republican Party," he said.
Clinton has yet to officially state her intention to run, but has been tipped as the leading Democratic hope, ahead of other potential candidates such as husband Bill Clinton's vice president Al Gore, former senator John Edwards and 2004 candidate John Kerry.
A poll in Time Magazine, however, suggested that she would be pipped in a head to head challenge by top Republican contender Senator John McCain.
How else, pray tell, would someone from the "Party of Lincoln" carry the South?
No anti-gun candidate will ever get my vote. That one issue IS enough.
Neither 911 nor the POW years make either candidate. Both did what was expected of them. Guiliani's leadership was a sprint, while McCain's was a marathon.
You're certainly entitled to your opinion, and thank you for sharing it, even if I do not agree.
Tancredo has zero chance of being elected president.
I'd definitely stay home and watch vampire movies rather than vote for or against either.
And that fries my frenchie, dontcha know.
You think you don't pay that much here? Sales tax, excise taxes, property taxes, income taxes, estate taxes, telephone freaking taxes of all things .... believe me .. I'd bet it's about the same.
Switzerland's benefit ? Every adult male keeps a fully automatic assault rifle and knows how to use it.
Tancredo could siphon off significant votes. Behind the scenes, Soros would probably put up money for him. Hillary walks into the WH with 40%.
I agree. If Tancredo runs third party, Hillary Clinton is our next president.
and don't forget the trip they went on where they did gin shots all night, just like one of the boys, mcpain was heard saying later....
McCain and Giuliani are certainly not my first choices as Republican nominees. They are probably my last choices. But, given a hypothetical situation where one of them is the nominee and Hillary is the opponent...well, I would walk over glass and fire to vote against her. So, yeah, it would be a hold-your-nose and vote for them scenario for me...but it sure as heck beats having Hildabeast in the White House.
The Cover-Up Continues
Peter Flaherty writes, “Hillary’s official biography prepared by the ’92 Clinton campaign makes no mention of her stint as NWF chairman, despite the fact that she oversaw some $23 million in foundation assets. A few journalists, like Dan Wattenberg of The American Spectator, did report on the NWF grants during the summer of 1992, but the major media paid almost no attention. There was no need for Hillary to defend herself.”
Hillary also took advantage of Bill Clinton’s radical connections, many developed in his trips abroad. Strobe Talbott and Bill Clinton had been Rhodes Scholars in England together, for example, and Talbott and his wife, Brooke Shearer, “became friends of mine,” she writes. Brooke’s brother, Derek Shearer, another Yale graduate, became a friend of Bill and pro-Marxist economic adviser to Clinton.
Talbott, who also graduated from Yale and is now president of the Brookings Institution, became Deputy Secretary of State in the Clinton administration. Before that, he had been a columnist for Time magazine, writing a July 20, 1992, column, “The Birth of the Global Nation,” that in the next century “nationhood as we know it will be obsolete,” that we would all some day become world citizens, and that wars and human rights violations in the 20th century had clinched “the case for world government.”
To help accomplish this, Talbott pressed for the use of the U.S. military to restore an extreme leftist, defrocked Catholic priest Jean Bertrand Aristide, to power in Haiti in 1994. Confidential documents from the U.N., publicized by AIM at the time, said that Talbott and other officials viewed an invasion as “politically desirable.”
Aristide, a Marxist-oriented advocate of Liberation Theology, had been booted from the presidency by the military because, among other things, he was inciting mobs to threaten to burn to death judges and legislators if they did not do his bidding.
Hillary’s book describes this as a case of “the elected President” of Haiti being returned to power “after a harrowing year of diplomacy and the landing of American troops.” But the book, Voodoo Politics by Lynn Garrison, tells a far different story, exposing Aristide as an anti-American figure not only allegedly involved in murder but drug trafficking. Garrison was an adviser to one of the generals involved in the anti-Aristide coup.
The political reasons for the invasion can be seen in the make-up of the “Aristide Foundation for Democracy,” whose board included left-wing Democrats such as Reps. Maxine Waters, John Conyers, and Joseph Kennedy, and former Rep. Michael Barnes.
Talbott’s global left-wing vision was endorsed by President Clinton, who had sent a June 22, 1993, letter to the World Federalist Association (WFA) when it gave Talbott its Norman Cousins Global Governance Award. In the letter, Clinton noted that Norman Cousins, the WFA founder, had “worked for world peace and world government” and that Talbott was a “worthy recipient” of the award.
As far as I am concerned, she needs to move to a communistic country and become its leader....her and bj would blend in very nicely....
I do hope she DOES NOT become POTUS....
I really think the MSM is pushing Repubulicans to accept McCain as the frontrunner. I cannot see this happening, no matter who else is out there for the Republicans.
McCain haters will apparently believe anything no matter how ludicrous. Any one knowledgeable about the man knows he would never take a backseat to Hillary.
McCain would get crushed by Hillary.
.....How many can you name that would be more noxious than Guiliani? Look, he could easily pass for a democrat. He's liberal on social issues, gun control, and moral values.......
Ah, but name another candidate who has the cojones of Rudy???
Right now, with the total Islam world in full hornet mode, maybe an ass-kicker is needed for some years, before we get back to social issues, gun control, and moral values.
Screw moral values for awhile, kick some serious muslim ass! Let 'em all die - no tears!
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