Giuliani Is Cautious (indecisive?) as He Weighs ’08 Decision

NY Times ^ | SAM ROBERTS

[narses]

Rudolph W. Giuliani, who developed a national reputation for decisive and reassuring leadership after 9/11, now faces the odd challenge of having to reassure some supporters that he can be decisive about a very different issue: running for president. Even as his fellow Republican John McCain and fellow New Yorker Hillary Rodham Clinton have all but formally declared their candidacies, Mr. Giuliani has proceeded more cautiously.

[BunnySlippers]

Do you support jailing homosexuals? Or perhaps mind control and putting them in czmps?

[Blackirish]

He would be a disaster as a candidate, because his many liberal/leftist views would pretty much guarantee a significant third-party candidate

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According to hundreds of polls the base likes Rudy. Sure a few "Rudy Haters" on FR could start their own third party...

Good luck with that LOL

[Victoria Delsoul]

Real conservatives don't go crying to the mods, especially when they are the ones doing the trashing. :-)

[Spiff]

I'd defend Hitler if the charge against him was having the nerve to fall asleep.

You don't get it. The point is that the commie hag doesn't have the intelligence to retire from the court given her mental and physical state. And I'm convinced that the liberals would put her brain in a jar and wheel that in to give her decisions if they could get away with it. Rudy goes and praises her, demonstrating how he feels about appointing strict constructionist judges and all.

[George W. Bush]

OMG, in an age where 50% of all marriages end in divorce God forbid a divorced man become POTUS.

Not quite like Reagan, divorced once and then solidly married for over 20 years before running for national office.

Rudy has divorced several times, once messily with a vengeful liberal ex-wife waiting to drop bombshells on him, and has only been remarried for about three years. (I consider this same divorced-in-the-last-10-years to be a strike again Newt too.)

If a pol's personal life has that much messy and ugly upheaval, shouldn't we question why their personal judgement or personal behavior is at fault for so many marital failures (including infidelities)?

| I tend to think this hurts Rudy more with women than men but a lot of men would take a hard look at his divorce record and not like it. OTOH, we have Hillary, flawed by she has Stood By Her Man, probably a positive for her in the end. Hillary also hasn't left her spouse and moved in with some gay guys.

[Fierce Allegiance]

I can take it jsut fine, but it's the same stuppid, irrelevant question i have already answered.

[BunnySlippers]

Giuliani is being supported by the GOP. Are you saying the GOP is a Liberal organization? If so have you, Fierce Allegiance, ever in your life voted for a Republican?

Tell the truth.

[JimFreedom]

Sure, relax, I couldn't almost hear that inflection in your voice. No harm and no foul!

I haven't really picked anyone yet I defend Rudy because I think he is worth defending, too realy to know whats down the road!

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Yes, you said this on Post 228. We get it.

You don't have a clue and neither does Giuliani.

No vote, no money, no work from me...

NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES..

1. Borders.
2. Private gun ownership to repel invasion.
3. Drug abuse is chemical warfare on the young.
4. Perverts are waging psychological warfare on the young.
5. The youth are tomorrow's soldiers.

The druggies, like the sex perverts, can only perpetuate an ever increasing market for their filth by molesting the minds and bodies of the young ones.

They are the enemy within.

[BunnySlippers]

Rudy was divoriced once. Annulled once.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Is it stuppid really?

[Sunsong]

Somehow this self-procalimed *superior* person - does not realize that this is a public forum :-)

[JimFreedom]

Surprised the hell out of me :)

[Victoria Delsoul]

Because he thinks it's stuppid LOL!

[Spiff]

If Clinton could somehow run again as a Republican, there'd be no shortage of FReepers supporting him.

Sadly, true.

[George W. Bush]

This is a point that seems to get lost in all the talk about abortion. Giuliani is even to the left of many Canadians on gun registration, who are trying to abolish their gun registry.

The point is only lost on those Rudy cheerleaders who live in a happy socialist police state like New York or D.C. or Chicago. They have no idea what the rest of the country is like on this issue. And they don't grasp the relevance of the huge victory we have had in putting concealed carry laws on the books in so many states in recent years.

The tide is running against nanny-state gungrabbers like The Rudy. Even The Hillary knows this.

[My GOP]

And on the other hand, we can't be teaching children to hate gays and to discriminate against them.

[Sunsong]

What is your answer? I'll ask it again: How is the anti-abortion movement going?

[Fierce Allegiance]

They shouldn't even know what gay is!

[My GOP]

" Sure a few "Rudy Haters" on FR could start their own third party..."

That's a great idea!! Then the GOP would be even more attractive to moderates, independents, and Reagan Democrats! We would gain 5 times as many of these voters than we would lose.