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
Oh, man! I needed a laugh today! That article sure did the trick.
ROFLMAO!!!! Cute joke, but a lie!
how do you feel about Reagan? he appointed 2 (of his 3) members to the SCOTUS who were pro-Roe.
...one issue losers...?
Let's see...
1. Abortion on demand
2. Homosexual agenda
3. Man-made global warming
4. Gun control
5. Dramatically increased government spending
I count five liberal issues...
Supporting a gay group with ties to anti-war communists fits your model?
That's fine. And there are people who stand with you.
Lots of common sense conservatives, however, are more interested in fiscal conservatives and law and order conservatives, and Rudy fits those bills beautifully.
Since we're not going to find anyone who fits the entire package, ever, then I'm going with national security. The federal goverment hasn't done anything much about abortion anyway and I've seen states like mine have much more success in one year and one piece of legislation in stopping the advance of abortion than the federal government has had since 1980.
1. Hannity
2. Murdock
3. Malanga
Kudos for Mark Levin for going against the grain on this one and exposing these idiotic musings about how "conservative" Rudy Giuliani is.
Yes, but in the past Republicans were welcomed, that is no longer the sentiment. IMHO
Hey, I totally agree with your tag. No way in heck I'd vote for the Hillary clone, and I'm taking a wait-and-see approach to Romney, but Hunter? Heck yes!
if you believed all the hype on FR about Rudy, you'd have to swallow that he was going to have the ATF kick in every door in the US, take all the guns out, give out coupons to the women for free abortions, and dress all the men in the house in evening gowns.
and you added another one - Rudy was responsible for the immigration policies that led to 9-11?
Rudy is a Conservative like San Fran Nan is a conservative Catholic. Horse hockey.
Sen. Brownback, Newt Gingrich, Michael Reagan, Ted Olson, Rep. Session and others like, support or endorse Rudy. I'm delighted to stand with them.
And while I don't need them and certainly don't need Mark Levin or for that matter the forum owner to tell me what a person is all about, I'm delighted to be in agreement with the people in the first paragraph.
There have been very few lies told about this man here. The most damning evidence of Rudy's liberalism is his own words and deeds.
I do not believe Reagan intended for that to be the outcome. I look at Reagan through the same prism as I look as Rudy. What did he say, and what did he do. Reagan spoke out against and did what he could to slack and stop abortions at a time when the congress was set in a majroity against him. No one, who lived through Reagan's presidential years, could possibly look at his speeches and recodr and call him pro-abortion. Rudy wears that label with pride. There's ahuge difference there for me.
You either are or you aren't what? You think there's only one kind of conservative?
Clearly people within the Republican leadership disagree with you.
read post 58 and tell me if you agree with that.
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