Posted on 02/14/2007 2:19:51 AM PST by ajolympian2004
Conservative Republicans will make a huge mistake if they fail to treat Rudy Giuliani as a serious option for the 2008 presidential nomination. The former New York mayor may have a liberal record on abortion and gay rights - actually, there's no "may" about it - and his messy personal life includes three marriages, but his record as mayor was at times Reaganesque in its willingness to battle an entrenched liberal establishment along a host of fronts. Those who have forgotten his record, or only followed it after 9/11, should read Steven Malanga's article "Yes, Rudy Giuliani is a Conservative" in the winter issue of City Journal (online at city-journal.org). It recounts his groundbreaking initiatives on crime, welfare and dependency, his relentless attempts to reform the public school system (his failure there persuaded him to embrace vouchers), his disdain for social engineering, and his understanding of how high taxes suffocate an entrepreneurial culture.
Giuliani also appreciated the critical role that intact families play in maintaining a healthy society with well-adjusted children, even if his own behavior did not always bear this out.
But if you really want evidence of Giuliani's credentials as a credible Republican candidate, you need to know only this single fact: In the 1990s, the political left in New York despised him. They demonized him without pause, while peddling hysteria about the calamitous effects his supposedly mean-spirited policies would usher in (but didn't).
Put it this way: Even if Giuliani is unacceptable to the social conservatives who dominate the GOP's base, they ought to give the man his due. No candidate so far in the running has jousted more with their own enemies, and none boasts more victories to his credit, either.
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I doubt that the objection to partial-birth abortion is contingent upon the favourability of the candidate.
Murdering babies is a moral issue.
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Uh-oh. :)
I'm praying that Sessions is not ok with abortion.
I've only started seeing it in the last couple of weeks. Looks like the capability to completely 'nuke' posts without leaving the "removed by moderator" comment has been recently added.
He endorsed Giuliani. So maybe you should ask him the same question you asked me.
Is spam contingent upon the favorability of the candidate? Apparently so.
But regardless, now that Jim has decided that certain pictures and spam are okay, I'll be sure to engage in it myself with favorable Rudy articles.
Musta been a doozy.
It was just a bit of fun.
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I'm sure your choice of pictures and spam will be as revealing of your character to us all as your above post.
They will have at least 55 Senators after the 2008 elections.
The House is less clear. I expect NH-01 to be retaken, but I don't know how things are in the rest of the country.
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lol
Not true at all. Here it is posted November of last year:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1735117/posts#18
It apparently only became objectionable when Rudy's pro-PBA positions became an issue on FR.
Kinda like "Nuke 'em from orbit - it's the only way to be sure."
lol, exactly.
OMG. You found where it was posted once and the mods didn't remove it. Well I've seen it removed, until now, every single time it's been posted.
But that purist conservatives don't mind if a child walks by and sees this image doesn't surprise me at all. There's a reason Reagan talked about the extreme right.
Which above post is it you take issue with, Miss Sensitivity?
Bill Clinton and other liberals were regularly beat up on FR over partial birth abortion and a number of other liberal things in the past. When we turn our ire on a so-called Republican who believes and supports things almost identical to Bill Clinton, then WE get trashed. The Rudybots want to complain now about a double standard where there is none except for the double standard that THEY themselves are demonstrating.
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