Posted on 02/14/2007 11:59:06 AM PST by areafiftyone
Mike DuHaime, the former RNC political director, sure has loyal colleagues.
Ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani's exploratory cmte. announced a bunch of new hires today to its political team, at the national and regional levels.
Mark Campbell, nat'l pol. dir.; "past clients" include Bush-Quayle, American Medical Association PAC, RNC, NRCC, Bush-Cheney FL Recount
Rick Wiley, dep. pol. dir.; previously served as executive director and pol. dir. of GOP of WI, exec. dir. of GOP Victory '04
Bill Stepien, nat'l field dir.; dir. of '05-'05 Nat'l 72 Hour, BC04 NH field dir
Jake Menges, sr. advisor to pol. dept.; worked for National Media, a GOP media firm in Alexandria, VA, and managed Bill Simon's CA GOV primary.
Cary Evans, nat'l field advisor; previously worked as RNC regional pol. dir., BC04 regional pol. dir., dep. manager for Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR),
Regional Political Directors
Chris Gulugian-Taylor, previously served as exec. dir. of NV Victory '06, exec. dir of NV GOP, the Nevada Republican Party as Executive Director and Political Director. Gulugian-Taylor has worked for the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C., and in the field, serving as the Washington State 72 Hour Director for President Bush's 2004 re-election campaign.
K.C. Jones, manager for Rick O'Donnell's House Run (CO-07), VA dir. of RNC's 72 Hour, BC04 IA field dir., BC04 MN dep. exec. dir.
Matthew R. Mahoney, Giuliani's WH Pol. Affairs Liason from '02-'07, dep. dir. of advance for Giuliani between '98-'02, sr. legal adviser to Solutions America PAC.
Matt Mason, dir. GOTV in '04 and '06 for OH GOP, joined Marines after 9/11, served a tour in Iraq in '05
Tyler O'Connor, state. dir. for MO GOP 72 Hour/Victory '06, pol. dir. for Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) '04 camp
Mike Roman, dir. of Election Day Operations at RNC in '06 and in PA in '04, before that at the PA GOP camp. cmte., Phill Ward Leader from '02 to '06
Mike Vallante, COO of CA GOP, chair of RI GOP, regional pol. dir. for RNC
David Watts, exec. dir./pol. dir. of Dallas County GOP ('98-'01), Western reg. pol. dir. for BC04.
Hey, how are you doing. After alittle break I'm back for more. I've updated my post I've been using the last few weeks. How do you like my revised edition?
I just can’t understand why so many are making Rudy look more liberal than he really is on social issues and why they refuse to acknowledge he is a conservative on just about every non-social issue and I certainly can’t understand how social issues are more important than all the other issues when choosing a President since the President has very little influence on social issues. And I certainly can’t understand how being “perfect” on social issues is more important than electability.
To begin with, Rudy is AGAINST gay marriage. On Hannity and Colmes on February 5th he said, “Marriage should be between a man and a woman. [It's] exactly the position I've always had.” Now as far as homos go, personally, I disagree with their life style but as long as they do what they do in the privacy of their own home I really don't care and nobody else should either, especially not the federal government. The POTUS doesn't have the power to stop people from being gay. And he surely shouldn't be interferring in people's private lives. And to top things off, marriage is a state issue. So therefore voting on the basis of this issue doesn't make much sense.
Rudy is not the abortion on demand liberal people make him out to be. He is against partial birth abortions, contrary to the misinformation some on here are posting. On Hannity Rudy said “Partial-birth abortion, I think that's going to be upheld(by the USSC). I think that ban is going to be upheld. I think it should be.” And as soon as Rudy got finished saying this, Hannity acknowledged, “There's a misconception that you supported partial-birth abortion”. So there we have, Rudy is against partial birth abortions. Rudy is also for parental notification. He also acknowledged this on Hannity. So Rudy certainly isn’t for abortion on demand.
In general on abortion, we have a pro-life President now but we are still having abortions. No president has the power to stop abortion. Rudy has already said he supports strict constructionist judges like John Roberts. He constantly praised the President for appointing Roberts and Alito. On Hannity Rudy said “I think the appointment of judges that I would make would be very similar to, if not exactly the same as, the last two judges that were appointed. Chief Justice Roberts is somebody I work with, somebody I admire, Justice Alito someone I knew when he was U.S. attorney, also admire. If I had been president over the last four years, I can't think of any, you know, that I'd do anything different with that.” Assuming Rudy gets elected President and appoints Roberts-like justices then maybe Roe v. Wade will get overturned. But even if it does get overturned we know that this won’t stop all abortions. The abortion issue would then revert back to the states and does anyone really think California would outlaw abortions? Being pragmatic in our thinking we all know we can't completely stop abortions. Therefore voting solely on this issue very unpragmatic. I hate abortions like everyone else on here but I realize that regardless of how many pro-life presidents we elect, its just not going to stop.
I'll admit his past gun stances are bothersome but he has say that what's good for NYC isn't good for all of America. However, he isn’t the anti-Second Amendment Nazi he is made out to be. On Hannity Rudy said, “I understand the Second Amendment. I support it. People have the right to bear arms.” Rudy isn’t going to try to ban guns or come take anyones guns. Are Democrats pushing for gun control now that they have control of Congress? No. And nobody has pushed for gun control since Gore lost the election in 2000. Everyone knows its a losing issue and I don't see any push for gun control by anybody in the near future.
Rudy is great on all the other issues, the ones where the President actually has the power to make a real difference, like the WOT. He's fiscally responible(he turned a NYC's deficit into a surplus), a tax cutter(he cut over 20 taxes as Mayor), conservative on domestic policies(he dropped 600,000 people off welfare, cleaned up the rampant crime as Mayor and supports school choice, ect), for smaller government and government deregulation, for social security reform, supports strict constructionist judges, and is 100% perfect when it comes to his stance on the WOT and all other foreign policy which by the way is 100 times more important than worrying about what some gays people are doing, gay people that doesn't affect our lives at all!!!
Finally, Rudy is, IMO, the only Republicans that can win in 2008. So take your pick, Hillary or Rudy. Sure, we can "choose" another Republican but he will lose to Hillary. Back to Rudy, if he's elected President and fights terrorist like he fought crime as Mayor can you imagine the results we will in the defining struggle of our generation, the fight against Islamic fascism. Everyone know for a fact Hillary will surrender the terrorist and hand our foreign policy over to the UN and EU and poor Israel would be left out to dry. Rudy is extremely competetent and a great leader and there is nobody I want more as Commander in Chief. So I think we need to stop worrying about gays, people that don't affect our lives life at all. We need to worry about Islamic fascism, the people that want to kill us all, and vote for someone that will go after them.
Many in the conservative community are open to Rudy. Sean Hannity is certainly open to Rudy and likes Rudy. George Will wrote this about Rudy, ““His eight years as mayor of New York were the most successful episode of conservative governance in this country in the last 50 years, on welfare and crime particularly." Giuliani, more than any other candidate (Romney comes the closest) has the record of taking on major institutions and reforming them. Think about tourist magnet that is New York now. When Rudy Giuliani took office, 59% of New Yorkers said they would leave the city the next day if they could. Under Rudy Giuliani’s leadership as Mayor of the nation’s largest city, murders were cut from 1,946 in 1993 to 649 in 2001, while overall crime – including rapes, assaults, burglary and auto-thefts – fell by an average of 57%. Not only did he fight crime in Gotham like Batman, despite being constantly vilified by the New York Times, he took head on the multiculturalism and victimization perpetuated by Al Sharpton and his cohort of race baiters. He ended New York’s set-aside program for minority contractors and rejected the idea of lowering standards for minorities. As far as the economy goes, Rudy reduced or eliminated 23 city taxes. He faced a $2.3 billion budget deficit but cut spending instead hiking taxes." Heck, even Rush is open to Rudy. Rush said, “"He's a smart cookie ... Here's the thing about Giuliani," he said on his radio show the other day. "Everybody's got problems with him ... But when you start polling him on judges, he's a strict constructionist ... That will count for quite a bit. He can fix the abortion thing ... So I think he's got potential--particularly, folks, since we're still going to be at war somewhere in 2008." If Rush is at least open to Rudy then he realizes Rudy isn’t that bad.
And apparently even Reagan liked Rudy. Rudy was Reagan's Associate Attorney General and was awarded the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, putting him along side Margaret Thachter, Billy Graham, and Bob Hope as receiptants of the award. Speaking of Ronald Reagan, Reagan said this about compromise in his autobiography An American Life: "When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it. "Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything. I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.' If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it."
Yes, Rudy may be alittle bit of a compromise but in reality, everytime you vote it’s a compromise. Nobody is ever going to find a candidate or a President they agree with 100% of the time, even Ronald Reagan. Reagan gave amnesty to illegal immigrants in 1986 and I’m sure the vast majority of Freepers disagree with that. Reagan even appointed O’Connor to the Supreme Court. Nobody is perfect. The only thing we can do is find the Presidential candidate we agree with the most on the most important issues and issues the President has the most influence over, the one that is the most electable, and the one that would make the best and strongest leader. That’s Rudy.
Back to Ronald Reagan for a second. In the above excerpt he used the term “radical conservatives”. So apparently Reagan thought that conservatives that were all or nothing, unappeasable, unpragmatic, and unrealistic are “radical”. I do too. Lets review history. World War II ended in 1945. SEVEN years later in 1952 the most popular general of the war, Dwight Eisenhower, won in a landslide despite far right extremist unpragmatic Republicans not supporting him in the primaries. History always repeats itself. I must now end the overly long post by quoting Dennis Miller, who also supports Rudy, “Rudy would have the best bumpersticker, ‘I’m the man the men in caves don’t want to win’”. Enough said.
There's no religious test. Rudy just hasn't given the religious right any reason to bother voting for him. On the contrary, he's given them plenty of reasons to vote against him.
I'm saying if he does win the primaries, right now he can forget about the Christian right. Up until now, his policies have been anti-Christian.
You don't have to wade thru them. You apparently don't know how to scroll down to other threads do you? Eventually the Rudy threads go down to the bottom of the page just like everyone else's.
Kindly, mind your own business.
I don't know.
But pointing to bad behavior, doesn't make more bad behavior acceptable.
And then you played dumb and said "what picture". ROFL
Or maybe you weren't playing.
Regardless, it's so interesting to see you disregard the rules against spam and the long standing policy not to post graphics like that.
But carry on; you're sounding more and more like a Democrat every day with the disregard for rules.
"All the 'media chosen' candidates are socially liberal."
How could it not be obvious to you that the leading candidates are leading because people actually KNOW who they are? These are not products of any media conspiracy.
The media would do all it could to get an ultra-conservative the nomination knowing that he would be wiped out in the general election. It certainly would NOT back the strongest candidate Hillary would have to face, Guliani.
I haven't seen you trying to pressure anyone. But I have seen posts by some who say - either you support Rudy or you are supporting Hillary. And nobody likes to be pressured like that - especially this early in the game. I'm just saying - it may not be *fair* - but we need to take the high road - which I think you are doing.
There will always be those who don't know how to act on the internet(s). But hopefully we can ignore those posts and talk about things with those who do support Rudy and do want to discuss how things are going.
Thanks for all your efforts here!
I don't guess it would be polite to not salute a Commander so I salute you :) And welcome aboard.
"Social conservatives rarely contribute to polls. They're a very private, church and family oriented people." Hilarious. Bet they hide under rocks too.
Nice to see you back!
Many of the anti-Rudy people are decidedly un-Christian in their tone and comments toward others on this board.
Oh I wouldn't say that to them. But if they say "I'd rather vote for Hillary or Obama" then we call them on that one. And they say that pretty often. Why, I'll never know.
...but you are making blanket statements that Christians won't vote for him......that is just not supported by facts but people you know...and I'm a Christian and am still looking...there are better candidates but maybe some Christians will vote for the person who is best on terror.. So the issue they believe in the most is satisfied....No one candidate will satisfy everyone on everything....
Most interesting.
Are you claiming Bill Grey CATAGORICALLY rules out ANY human impact on warming? Or does he say it cannot be proved?
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