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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: Graymatter

No need for you to support Rudy. Who *do* you support?


61 posted on 01/27/2007 5:34:44 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: Sunsong

Thanks for the compliment!


62 posted on 01/27/2007 5:34:50 PM PST by My GOP (Conservatives should be realistic and pragmatic!!)
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To: Spiff

thanks


63 posted on 01/27/2007 5:35:25 PM PST by righthand man (WE'RE SOUTHERN AND PROUD OF IT)
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To: Sunsong
You are free to support whoever you like. There will be those who support Rudy. Others will support Romney. Some McCain - some Hunter. That's life.

Tom calls "glib" on that....

64 posted on 01/27/2007 5:35:30 PM PST by edpc (The pen is mightier than the sword......until you fight someone.)
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To: Spiff
Sure - Rudy will see that Spiff doesn't like him and that will do it. Just like he caved to the ACLU when they were upset he was going to clean up NYC. :-)

It's not about you, Spiff. How did you say you were doing, btw, in preventing abortion?

65 posted on 01/27/2007 5:36:37 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: NapkinUser

a STOP Giuliani ping list? Add me!


Hunter is the guy!


66 posted on 01/27/2007 5:39:10 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance ("Campers laugh at clowns behind closed doors." GOHUNTER08!)
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To: My GOP

No, comedian, but it does describe the millions of unborn who have been brutally murdered. If turning a blind eye to that is now considered "pragmatic" or "conservative," then Conservatism and this Nation are in a bad place.


67 posted on 01/27/2007 5:39:11 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: My GOP
What?

Hannity? THAT RINO? Supports Rudy? Oh well, no big loss, he only has about 15 million who listen to him every day.(/sarc.)
68 posted on 01/27/2007 5:39:43 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (Never argue with an idiot, because they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience)
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To: Reagan Man

Rudy is NOT a social conservative. He may never appeal to you. But he DOES appeal to others.


69 posted on 01/27/2007 5:40:17 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: metalurgist; My GOP
This is a partial transcript from "Hannity & Colmes," July 20, 2005...

COLMES: Now, on abortion — now, you are pro-choice, right?

GIULIANI: Yes.

COLMES: You're a pro-choice Republican.

GIULIANI: I am.

~snip~

COLMES: Now, Roe vs. Wade -- You are pro-choice. How important is it to you as a pro-choice Republican to have a pro-choice on the court as someone...

GIULIANI: That is not the critical factor. And what's important to me is to have a very intelligent, very honest, very good lawyer on the court. And he fits that category, in the same way Justice Ginsburg fit that category.

I mean, she was — she maybe came at it from a very different political background, very qualified lawyer, very smart person. Lots of Republicans supported her. I expect, and listening to Senator Nelson, I expect that John Roberts will get support from a lot of Democrats.

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So Rudy thinks Ruth Bader Ginsberg is a "very intelligent, very honest, very good lawyer".... "very qualified lawyer, very smart person". I don't know any conservative who heaps praises on J.Ginsberg like that. J.Ginsberg is the ultimate liberal. Obviously, Rudy is not a conservative when it comes to his idea of what makes a good strict constructionist judge-jurist-justice. Rudy would be more inclined to appoint a Lawrence Tribe, George Mitchell or Alan Dershowitz to the SCOTUS, then he would be to appoint another Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas or William Rehnquist.

70 posted on 01/27/2007 5:41:00 PM PST by Reagan Man (Conservatives don't vote for liberals.)
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To: Howlin
Wise words there; and yet here we have a whole group of people on this web site with one agenda -- stopping abortion -- and their answer is to turn power over to the very people who will GUARANTEE that there is abortion on demand for the foreseeable future.

LOL - you know that will go right over their heads :-)

71 posted on 01/27/2007 5:42:02 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: My GOP

Reagan was a great president, and won by a landlside, right? Is giuliani anything like Reagan? Nope, not even close. Hunter is very much like Reagan. He can win by a landslide, with a little more face time on TV. We have close to a year before the new hampshire primaries, too.


72 posted on 01/27/2007 5:42:48 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance ("Campers laugh at clowns behind closed doors." GOHUNTER08!)
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To: Sunsong

Like most everything else.

To me, they appear to be living in a timewarp; it's like they cannot accept the fact that the world has passed them by, it's not the 1990's or 80's anymore, and we have to COMPROMISE.


73 posted on 01/27/2007 5:43:18 PM PST by Howlin (The GOP RATS - Republicans Against Total Success (Howie66))
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To: narses

How do you feel you have done so far in preventing abortion?


74 posted on 01/27/2007 5:43:21 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: narses

Of course, because he's fighting a losing battle. Whenever your candidate is the lesser of two librals, you automatically lose no matter what the outcome is.


75 posted on 01/27/2007 5:44:03 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance ("Campers laugh at clowns behind closed doors." GOHUNTER08!)
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To: Reagan Man

"So Rudy thinks Ruth Bader Ginsberg is a "very intelligent, very honest, very good lawyer".... "very qualified lawyer, very smart person". I don't know any conservative who heaps praises on J.Ginsberg like that

LOL! You are so taking that out of context. Just because Rudy thinks Ginsburg is intelligent, honest and a good lawyer doesn't mean he agrees with her judicial ideology. Heck, I'll admit that Bill Clinton is very intelligent, he was a Rhodes scholar after all and a law professor, but that doesn't mean I agree with his politics.


76 posted on 01/27/2007 5:44:16 PM PST by My GOP (Conservatives should be realistic and pragmatic!!)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

If Giuliani is so bad, why did Reagan appoint him to be his Associate Attorney General?


77 posted on 01/27/2007 5:45:12 PM PST by My GOP (Conservatives should be realistic and pragmatic!!)
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To: Gop1040

You don't really follow national politics much, do you?


78 posted on 01/27/2007 5:45:13 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance ("Campers laugh at clowns behind closed doors." GOHUNTER08!)
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To: My GOP

You are most welcome. It is nice to read something with some real thought behind it - instead of all this spam and hatred.


79 posted on 01/27/2007 5:45:41 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: Sunsong
>>>>>Rudy .... DOES appeal to others.

I agree. Rudy appeals to moderates, centrists and liberals. Maybe conservatives should take a cue from Cong Vito Fossella, and join him in throwing away their principles and their integrity, and jump on the Rudy's liberal bandwagon. LOL

80 posted on 01/27/2007 5:45:46 PM PST by Reagan Man (Conservatives don't vote for liberals.)
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