Posted on 02/28/2007 9:56:17 AM PST by Peach
Not since Teddy Roosevelt took on Tammany Hall a century ago has a New York politician closely linked to urban reform looked like presidential timber. But today ex–New York mayor Rudy Giuliani sits at or near the top of virtually every poll of potential 2008 presidential candidates. Already, Giuliani’s popularity has set off a “stop Rudy” movement among cultural conservatives, who object to his three marriages and his support for abortion rights, gay unions, and curbs on gun ownership. Some social conservatives even dismiss his achievement in reviving New York before 9/11.
An August story on the website Right Wing News, for instance, claims that Giuliani governed Gotham from “left of center.” Similarly, conservatives have been feeding the press a misleading collection of quotations by and about Giuliani, on tax policy and school choice issues, assembled to make him look like a liberal.
But in a GOP presidential field in which cultural and religious conservatives may find something to object to in every candidate who could really get nominated (and, more important, elected), Giuliani may be the most conservative candidate on a wide range of issues. Far from being a liberal, he ran New York with a conservative’s priorities: government exists above all to keep people safe in their homes and in the streets, he said, not to redistribute income, run a welfare state, or perform social engineering.
The private economy, not government, creates opportunity, he argued; government should just deliver basic services well and then get out of the private sector’s way. He denied that cities and their citizens were victims of vast forces outside their control, and he urged New Yorkers to take personal responsibility for their lives.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26604
The dirt has been pulled out on Rudy for nearly 15 years and it hasn't stopped his widespread appeal.
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This is true. Which is why I think he'll be an easy winner in '08. But to call him a "conservative" is academically stupid.
. . . So are the Days of Our Lives . . .
I don't care what other people think. He is not a conservative. And I ESPECIALLY don't care what a slanted Washington Post-ABC News poll says. If the press loves him, we have a HUGE problem since most of them are libs.
I don't hate Rudy, but I'll never vote for him. He's no more a Conservative than Hillary is.
Thank you Peach! Since they want to post articles from 1999, 1993, 1994 about Rudy just to flamebait at least you post ones that are new.
"Government exists above all to keep people safe in their homes and in the streets".
Hillary or Rudy? Which is the lesser of two evils?
Yes, I am the King of Spain.
What an incredibly creative and unique title for a post!!!/sarcasm
Republicans across the spectrum of fiscal or social conservatives and across the Bible Belt and flyover country love him.
But I'm sure they're all RINOs which stands for Rudy is Number One. And it's just killing ya'll. Thanks for moving the party so far to the right that even a fairly representative number of conservatives are turned off.
Again, this is my own opinion on the matter and each are free to their own...but I reckon I must stand before my Maker one day, and before God, I could never violate the sacred trust of my free vote for someone who support such positions so diametrically opposed to the very moral basis and foundation for our liberties.
you make an important observative there.
polls show that the Generation Y demographic runs 58/42 Dem. and if you add to that, the number of single young women who are going to turnout to vote to elect the first woman president, that demographic is going to be very scary for the republicans in 2008. we need a candidate who can push back in that demographic.
Needlessly excoriated? So you think we should just accept this liberal, socialist, communist leaning so called conservative and not say a word, not try to educate the idiots who actually believe this RINO traitor to be a conservative? The man whose policies on illegal immigration were a big contributor to 9/11? The man who used the diaster he helped create to paint himself as a hero? That guy? We needlessley excoriate that man?
The way you get out the word on candidates is to let people know the facts about them, if that is needlessly excoriating them, then so be it.
Why? If you have a rah!rah! Rudy forum and a rah! rah! ah....say Duncan Hunter or Newt forum, it's a feel good think but not good for debate. I would rather see things rough and rowdy , if information and education happening. JMO
Rudy is a fiscal and law and order conservative.
And those of us who like him are happy to stand in the company of people like Newt Gingrich, Michael Reagan, Rep. Sessions, Sen. Brownback, Ted Olson, etc.
They are staunch conservatives and they like, support and/or endorse Rudy.
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