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Giuliani Is Cautious (indecisive?) as He Weighs ’08 Decision
NY Times ^ | SAM ROBERTS

Posted on 01/27/2007 2:26:06 PM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: electionpresident; elections; gohunter08; medialies; rudy
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To: My GOP
I don't see it ever stopping. What I hope to see is enough states illegalize it that it removes the perception of normalcy and acceptability. It hurts women, and we know what it does to the child. Women are scarred for life - Dr. David Reardon has devoted the better part of his career to studying the trauma, esp. those women who find out what an abortion is after having one! (Ironically this is one of the reasons its supports wish to suppress the truth).

Basically you and I share the same goals it seems. So let me ask why you think Rudy's liberal view on this issue and others will have zero bearing on his appointments to bench, or his proclivity to sign legislation like Rep. Hunter's Right to Life Act, re-introduced just two days ago, into law?

461 posted on 01/27/2007 9:35:08 PM PST by Lexinom
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To: Sunsong
Electing a Democrat will allow matters to become so bad that the American people will once again wake up and long for a conservative in 2012. It would be four years of chastisement.

Does that help?

462 posted on 01/27/2007 9:36:13 PM PST by Lexinom
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To: Lexinom
Electing a Democrat will allow matters to become so bad that the American people will once again wake up and long for a conservative in 2012. It would be four years of chastisement.

That's what you believe? :-)

I think that four years of dems will likely produce two liberal supreme court justices.

463 posted on 01/27/2007 9:43:09 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: Sunsong
I realize that. It sets things back, but OTOH a Democrat is EXPECTED to do such things. For a Republican to do it, or implement other socially-liberal policies, moves the Republican party further left, and based on previous experience (gravity seems to pull left) it would prove quite difficult to right the ship again.

Know that, having given a good part of my life to studying, debating, protesting, and preventing abortion, any statement that it is "settled law"; that "there is nothing we can do"; that we need to "get over it", is equivalent to telling millions of us that years our lives are worthless and wasted. Nothing is set in stone, and nothing is ever hopeless.

A Rudy nomination, however, would send a message that we are finally accepting this massive holocaust, are comfortable with it, are at peace with it, are happy with it, are celebrating it. Many of us would sooner die fighting than ever, ever embrace that view. Hence our strong Rudy opposition.

Similar things could be said about guns - also extremely important - but ending abortion is my particular passion, and there are others to champion the gun-rights cause.

These are reasons many of us oppose Rudy so strongly - even it it were to mean a Dem in the Whitehouse (and I reject the false Rudy/Dem dichotomy, BTW).

464 posted on 01/27/2007 9:55:45 PM PST by Lexinom
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To: Lexinom
Well, it is very possible that Rudy will be the GOP nominee.

So you will be able to decide what that means for you.

If the GOP does not select a good candidate in 2008 - you can expect a dem in the WH and a continued dem Congress. How will that further your cause?

And, btw, after four years of a dem - there is a good chance there will be another four. Clinton was in office eight years!

465 posted on 01/27/2007 10:00:02 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: George W. Bush
"You dodge the issue: does Rudy support returning all decisions on abortion rights and sodomy rights to the states? Will he campaign vigorously and speak to those issues?"

Personally, I don't think he cares about the issue in the sense that most do...he may have his personal opinion aboout it, but he supports the constitution and what it has to say about it...which is that the federal government has no stand. It is a matter that should be left to the states to decide.

466 posted on 01/27/2007 10:01:14 PM PST by Ethrane ("semper consolar")
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

That's been true of the Detroit area for a long time and didn't prevent Reagan or Bush from carrying the state. And that's not ancient history, track the last 30 years of presidential elections and you'll see that the Democrats didn't take the state until 1992, peaked in victory margin in 1996 and then saw their margin narrowed in 2000 and again in 2004.


467 posted on 01/27/2007 10:01:44 PM PST by Dolphy
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To: Lexinom
It will be a long, hard-fought state-by-state effort that only begins with the overturning of Roe.



I agree but while that 50 year battle is fought. .. is it Ok if we in the mean time secure the borders...get control of spending...fight Islamic fascism....maybe accomplish things that Rudy would excel at?
468 posted on 01/27/2007 10:34:40 PM PST by Blackirish (David Dinkins:"Rudy as President is kind of frightening.My question will be, will I move to Bermuda")
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To: Blackirish

The thing is, as long as this is being allowed, we're really not a society worth preserving the first place so those other "priorities" are rather moot, aren't they?


469 posted on 01/27/2007 10:51:04 PM PST by Lexinom
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To: Lexinom
No ...Western Civilization is a good...I reject such talk whether its from the far right..America is and not worth saving or from the left...Amerikkka is a fascist state.
470 posted on 01/27/2007 11:07:49 PM PST by Blackirish (David Dinkins:"Rudy as President is kind of frightening.My question will be, will I move to Bermuda")
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To: Lexinom
we're really not a society worth preserving

Wow - you could always move :-)

471 posted on 01/27/2007 11:53:13 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: appeal2
Agreed. Abortion is settled law, it is here to stay.

The legal and wanton killing of innocent human life is no more "settled law" than was the legal ownership of slaves 150 years ago.

472 posted on 01/28/2007 1:59:47 AM PST by Colorado Buckeye (It's the culture stupid!)
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To: My GOP
How can the government stop gays from being gay?

The Michael Jackson Complex is fixation on mutilation of and deviance with human anatomy in the media. It is a social psychosis catering to the lowest common denominator and generated with Pavlovian behavioral conditioning in popular culture.

Should we really be canonizing special societal privileges in the law based on idolatrous fetishes? Disability, welfare, Social Security, etc., etc., ad nausea...

The social psychosis generated by behavioral conditioning (Pavlov's salivating dogs) in the popular culture and the conditioned response to accept the false premises of mental illness or birth defect will be used as a political tool to systematically rob the public purse.

Then, we could have other self-inflicted mental illness and disease (aside from those we already do) subsidized by the government consolidating an ever increasing portion of the economy in the hands of the cultural Marxists.

It is no coincidence Islamic pagans hate Israel, Jews, Christians and Western Civilization. The entire basis of Western Civilization is Mosaic Law, something both the Neo-Pagan Left and the pagan Islamic thugs cannot abide and wish to destroy.

The very idea that human beings have individual rights not subject to the whims of an earthly monarch, but subject to the laws of Yahweh, is directly from Moses.

Historically, this is proven over and over again with the successive conflicts between the forces of paganism and the Judaic culture. (This includes the idolatry of cultural Marxist paganism.)

A greater number of "atheists" and "pagans" adopt the same hackneyed tenets of a false Judaic-Christian ideal (golden calf). They also subscribe to the Judaic fetishism of "sin," but will fight to their death in denial of it.

Most of them are so wrapped up in their own polemics that they have become nothing more than pathetic anti-Christians with the same false hypocritical philosophy. They just slap a new label on it hoping nobody will notice - - they replace the idea of "avoiding sin" with "morals."

Morality and all of its associated ideals are rooted entirely in the presupposition some higher power defines what is correct in human behavior. Today, "morals" are a religious pagan philosophy of esoteric hobgoblins.

Transfiguration is a pantheon of fantasies as the medium of infinitization. Others get derision for having an unwavering Judaic belief in Yahweh or Yeshua, although their critics and enemies will evangelize insertion of phantasmagoric fetishisms into secular law.

Mosaic Law (of which the Ten Commandments is just a part) is the foundation of Western Civilization. Genesis is the primary focus of the Declaration of Independence, from where our Constitutional rights are derived. The Ten Commandments are the foundation of our judicial system.

Moses wrote Genesis. This is why such people will jump up and down screaming when the Ten Commandments are displayed or the Creationist idea of monogamy from the book of Genesis is introduced.

The latter (Genesis) also ruins the illogical and non-biological arguments of homosexual monogamy. In a secular sense, homosexuality is an idolatry of perversion. It is in no way an anatomical function of the human organism, but a phantasmagoric creation from within the mentally disturbed human mind, a social psychosis, naked and on full exhibitionist display.

This is the whole crux (pun intended) of their attack on creationism - - they are really frustrated by Genesis, but cannot destroy the axiomatic state of procreant human biology, it does not fit their religious agenda.

Homosexual monogamy advocates seek ceremonious sanctification of their anatomical perversions and esoteric absolution for their guilt-ridden, impoverished egos.

Neither of those will satisfy their universal dissatisfaction with mortality or connect them to something eternal. With pantheons of fantasies as their medium of infinitization, they still have nothing in them of reality, any more than there is in the things that seem to stand before us in a dream.

Homosexual deviancy is really a pagan practice (and a self-induced social psychosis) at war with the Judaic culture over what is written in the book of Genesis (1:27, 2:18).

This is exactly what the National Socialists were at war with... so, when someone uses the terms "Feminazi" or "Gaystapo," they might not realize how close to the truth they really are, especially if you consider their eugenic breeding programs.

Many will seek ceremonious sanctification and esoteric absolution in some type of marriage rite, but that still fails to give them a connection to the eternal in both a religious and temporal, procreant sense - - the union does not produce offspring.

Dissatisfaction with inevitable mortality only feeds the impoverishment of the ego further. Homosexuals really hate human life; their whole desire is rooted in the destruction of it.

Abortion is akin to slavery... life to be bought and sold...

Contemplate the religious fervor associated with the pro-abortion advocacy. The societal practice of abortion is ritual mass murder upon the altars of conceit dedicated to idolatrous vanities, a collective human sacrifice before pagan idols.

It has a similitude to the Teutonic paganism of Adolph Hitler (whose idolatry was the idea of a "master race," among other things). In effect, these genocides are a mass human sacrifice to those pagan idols. The abortionists, like the National Socialists, incinerate the remains of their victims.

Aleister Crowley, who openly supported the National Socialists, was affiliated with Ordo Templi Orientis, Golden Dawn, A.A. (Order of the Silver Star) and other such occult lodges all across Germany. Crowley engaged in all manner of deviancy, homoeroticism, sadomasochism and murder. Much of the occultism in National Socialism is derived directly from there. Crowley envisioned himself as the Great Beast (To Mega Therion), just as der Fuhrer made himself in that image. Hitler's life as a struggling, inept artist was where that association blossomed.

Crowley's creed, "Do what thou wilt, shall be the whole of the Law," (which is actually from Francois Rabelais) and used by Neo-Pagan nutcases without attribution for obvious politically correct reasons, is with certainty no different than the National Socialist "will to power," or their ubermensch mentality.

It is also no accident Nietzsche's "over-man" and nihilist philosophy and resulting insanity from venereal disease closely mirrors the insanity of der Fuhrer. These occult orders, sex and drug cults still survive today, as do the Neo-pagan, Neo-Nazi groups, black supremacist Rastafarian potheads, prison gangs and other related filth.

Crowley occultism is also from where L. Ron Hubbard emerges with Scientology. Note the NAZI symbolism of that kooky cult of weirdoes and their deviant adherents. Hollywood Cultural Marxists love Scientology.

Again, morality and all of its associated ideals are rooted entirely in the presupposition some higher power defines what is correct for human behavior.

But, since we are all properly obeying the * modern interpretation * of the First Amendment, good & evil isn't the question... Good & bad, right & wrong, etc., etc., ad nausea; are all inherently religious ideals.

The modern interpretation of the First Amendment (according to the liberal-tarians) says government must exorcise all traces of religion and theism from itself. Therefore, government must never consider issues of morality and right and wrong...

So, it becomes a question of benefits versus costs. Fetus killing has its benefits to society, especially if you like to sleep late on Saturdays. But it also has its costs as well. Society (by which I mean, whoever manages to seize power) needs to evaluate these costs and decide accordingly.

The mythical rights of men and women are also meaningless. The very concept of rights is also founded in religion. Since the enlightened person is freed from any superstitions about some "God," they are free from having to worry about "rights." Only raw power counts and humans are just meat puppets for the powerful...

473 posted on 01/28/2007 4:31:00 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Ethrane
It is a matter that should be left to the states to decide.

States ratify Amendments to the Constitution...

READ it for yourself...

Article V

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress;...

474 posted on 01/28/2007 4:36:59 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Dolphy
...the last 30 years of presidential elections and you'll see that the Democrats didn't take the state until 1992, peaked in victory margin in 1996 and then saw their margin narrowed in 2000 and again in 2004.

Capitulating to them on the issues with a liberal candidate is not a winning strategy.

475 posted on 01/28/2007 4:49:42 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Alberta's Child
would you still stand up here on FreeRepublic and insist he's a "conservative" in any sense of the word?

Can you point to the post where I made any such claim?

476 posted on 01/28/2007 7:35:57 AM PST by Howlin (The GOP RATS - Republicans Against Total Success (Howie66))
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To: Sunsong
If you support Hunter - why do you feel the need to bash Rudy?

One again...Free Republic is a conservative forum. Rudy Guiliani is a liberal man. We bash liberals on FR. There are a lot of freeprs who are casual observers and might not follow politics enough to realize how far left Rudy really is. It is important to get the word out.

477 posted on 01/28/2007 7:40:45 AM PST by jmc813 (Please check out www.marrow.org and consider becoming a donor. You may save a life.)
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To: My GOP
Why do you refuse to expose his anti-tax, fiscal displine, pro growth, anti government regulation

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.-Rudy Giuliani

Does that really sound like an "anti-government regulation" candidate to you?

478 posted on 01/28/2007 7:51:35 AM PST by jmc813 (Please check out www.marrow.org and consider becoming a donor. You may save a life.)
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To: narses
LOL, when it comes to life and values, I am what I am. Liberals hate that. So be it.

Everyone here values life. You just hate the fact that not everyone agrees with your myopic viewpoint.

479 posted on 01/28/2007 8:15:49 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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To: My GOP
Yep, that describes your brain perfectly. I wasn't going to say it but since you did I will :)

43 million abortions since Roe become law is a little hard to ignore.

480 posted on 01/28/2007 8:17:48 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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