Posted on 03/03/2007 11:30:16 PM PST by FairOpinion
McCain-hating and Romney-bashing have been pretty much equal-opportunity pastimes around CPAC this year.
Rudy, on the other hand, has gotten mostly a free pass. And, today, his speech was filled to capacity with folks waiting in the hallway to get in. There were also dense crowds around all the TVs in the exhibit halls. The charm offensive is strong, indeed. People just love listening to him.
I took some video of conservatives quite mesmerized by the Mayor, so I'm working on getting that up. They were doing crowd control outside the hall in which he was speaking. Many of those folks crowding the hall are pro-life, social conservatives who just can't resist him, despite the policy differences. I don't think Rudy will remain unattacked, as he was this week, but the feel-good factor is big for him, no matter what kind of conservative he's talking to.
Today, he talked about leadership, security, toughness, and Reagan to a crowd who's looking for a leader in the image of Reagan in a time that needs security. It was a good pitch, and there were more people listening than have listened to anything at CPAC this week.
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We are dealing with people who have zippo sense of humor but a hugely inflated sense of their own importance.
You remind me of crazed Pro Lifers standing outside an Abortion Clinic, shouting hate words at the girls walking in , instead of praying for them, opening up their home to them, helping them in any way you can.
Nope, not FR...we will crucify ANYONE who isn't RIGHT ENOUGH.........won't we ? It is just too bad that Free Republic has become what it has. We should all learn by it. We have a long way to go.
Post after post, thread after thread, we are fighting EACH OTHER !
What an example we are !
"I can hardly read my once beloved FR anymore because of posts like yours and other's. So much hatred !"
What "hatred"?
You restore my sadness to hope, just reading what you say.
Thank you.
Is he going to run, is the question...
you're stupid to claim that people who wanted someone other than Bush, like Keyes, who was just as good and MORE of a conservative, and was AGAINST immigration, and AGAINST McCain Fiengold...wanted Gore
but NOooo, we need to follow the party line and get Bush Jr!
He has one good thing, he fought back. And 75% of the vets on this site all called for a doubling of the trops before the war even started.
But then again, we could have had someone who fought back AND had more things going for him....
But, some people dont understand that part...
Another Post from the "Fifteen percent"
"And if Rudy does get the nod, expect the MSM to open up the hype floodgates on the cross-dressing and the gay stuff -- oh, not condemning of course (wink) but how it's a big change, how will this play in the South, does this mean gay marriage is A-OK for the GOP."
MY REPLY: And if they do it will be countered with images of Rudy's heroism during and after 9/11 and most Americans will be DISGUSTED - at the MSM, NOT at RUDY.
The issue in 2008 will be the WOT - what with Iran's creeping closer to nukes and threatening the world. Not pull-out, but how to best change strategy and WIN.
Your statement implies that Southerners are stupid one-issue voters. Having lived in the Bible - Belt for 8 years I can tell you this is FAR from the truth. Its almost like you have been taken in by, and are repeating the MSM Koolaid mantra about this.
Southerners are the most patriotic of Americans, they know we are at war, they absolutely DESPISE the treasonous opposition like Murtha, and they know that Rudy is the one who will take the fight to the terrorists - and without a velvet glove a la Dubya in Iraq, but with brass knuckles.
Rudy's principled stance on judges and the 'socon' issues (ie. he is a constructionist who will appoint constructionist judges like Scalia and Roberts - confirmed by no less a Federalist Society Conservative luminary than Ted Olsen - combined with his tacit promise that he is not a 'crusader' on social issues but believes that they should be decided by the people's elected representatives is right in line with what 90% of 'socons' (like myself, for example) believe).
So the fact that he is not flip-flopping a la Mitt and trying to brownnose this group is also enhancing his image as a true leader - which he is - its funny how it is the Veterans here on FR who have been the first to catch on to that. Its a 'disturbance in the force' that we are highly attuned to, if you will. We can tell a real leader from a political poseur a mile away - and Rudy is a real leader.
Therefore Rudy will not meet significant opposition except from a tiny minority of 'no compromise any time any where' radicals who are squealing like stuck pigs around here the past few weeks because their tactics have found themselves marginalized.
I was open-minded on Rudy when the bashing started. Now, I am 100% behind him. Your misguided attempts at character assassination, and 'can't see the forest for the trees blindness' has had this effect on many, many Freepers - and on conservative voters across the country.
Contrary to the idiotic "Rudy=Hitlary" statements which even the biggest rube knows are BS, the difference between Rudy and Hitlary (besides that one will cut-and-run while the other will get tougher in the WOT) is that Hitlary is a doctrinaire crusading Marxist who will use the FULL power of her office to sign laws and appoint judges who will seek to limit and take away our rights as religious Americans, home-schoolers and 2nd Amendment backers - this will be THE FOCUS of her administration, NOT the WOT. She's waited nearly 40 years to implement Saul ALinsky's tactics for turing America into a Marxist-liberal state.
Rudy's priorities are straight - WOT is #1, - AND IF YOU GET NOTHING MORE OUT OF THIS POST, PLEASE GET THIS:
Rudy is a PRINCIPLED CONSERVATIVE who believes that the people should decide most of their social issues through their local elected representatives - and he will appoint conservative judges who have that philosophy - as opposed to Hitlary, who will appoint Ruth Bader Ginsburgs to every open Federal Judiciary Seat ACROSS THE NATION.
THAT is the real difference between Rudy and any national radical crusading left-wing Democrat who will run in 2008 (99% its Hitlary).
So look at this issue beyind out-of-context quotes made by Rudy when he was Mayor of a 5-1 LIBERAL city where he had to politically survive in order to save the City (which he did). He was THE most hated politician by the liberal limousine crowd that NY had ever seen. Does this sound like Rudy=Hitlary to you?
Get your gaze out of your navel and see the 'Big Picture'. Rudy is not a threat to conservatives, he will uphold local rights (especially through his judicial appointments), AND he will fight to protect this nation from a terrorist and a looming nuclear-terrorist peril. The alternative is to elect a Dem and concede defeat - HERE and ABROAD.
I asked, What "hatred"?
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"Rudy is a PRINCIPLED CONSERVATIVE who believes that ..."
Gun control is good,
Divorce is good,
Abortion is good,
Illegal immigrants are good,
"Gay rights" are good,
and on and on and on.....
No thanks Al.
Find a single post where I said I was supporting Giuliani.
Thanks for the ping, carlo3b. I promise I will never falsely bash Mr. Guiliani. I may, however, tell you a truth or two about him you won't like.
"Not this time. JimRob has put out a statement that we are not welcome here." Who is the "we" you are referring to?
O-O-O-K-A-Y...I will...speak...really slowly...so you...understand....
1) Pointing out idiocy from idiot posters does not mean I will vote for the man in question for President. I like to point out idiocy. It's fun. There's lots of fodder here.
2) The "we" I was referring to are the folks who like to point out idiocy, wherever we find it.
That table says it all.
Rudy has every thing in common with Clinton, but we should embrace him because he has a "R" behind his name?
His "R" is for RINO.
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