Posted on 03/10/2007 5:42:54 AM PST by veronica
For the moment, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani sits on double-digit leads over the rest of the Republican presidential-hopeful pack in several national polls.
Why?
"It appears to me that Rudy is going aggressively after the conservative vote," says Pennsylvania Republican and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum. "He has not ceded that ground to anybody."
Santorum, known nationally for his social conservatism, says Giuliani does a good job of reminding people how he governed as a conservative on crime, welfare and taxes in New York City.
Santorum also believes Giuliani has scored points on social issues with his comments about judges and Supreme Court justices.
"Rudy understands that, on those issues, the courts are where conservatives have been losing the battle," he says. "If he is going to be appointing judges in the Scalia-Thomas (mold), then he is sending a very positive message to conservatives that he understands the importance of having the Constitution interpreted for what it says and not for what people want it to be."
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Duncan Hunter's voting record proves he's nothing more then another big spender Republican. He's not the solution, he's part of the problem.
Of course not, they WERE the main stream...not the fringe.
No they were not - many were against the war and many of the things they stood for. Their leadership won many over. They lead the political mainstream, they didn't follow it. The point is, they weren't worried about the 1700's version of popularity polls. They were statesmen, not politicians. Conservatism and I think FR, is about the same thing - doing the right thing, not necessarily the popular thing.
Some of them were statesmen, but there again, that garners no similarity with any of the candidates on the list so far this election cycle. Even including big spending Hunter.
That Rudy supporting leftists can dish it out but whimper when they get a taste of it back?
That needed no proof; it was never in doubt.
Her cowardly attacks on Jim Robinson without even the courtesy of a ping were nauseating.
And Rudy then repaid Reagan with treachery.
The Giuliani campaign should emphasize its candidate's independence from traditional national Republican policies. Especially useful in this strategy is Giuliani's role in overturning a Reagan administration attempt to throw disabled people off the Social Security rolls, his prosecution of Republican elected officials -- especially his authorization for calling his boss, Attorney General Edwin Meese III, a sleaze, and his un-Republican views on many social issues of concern to New Yorkers, like abortion, gun control and bias protection for homosexuals.' - From the 'Guiliani Vulnerability Study - April 1993
But you knew that, didn't you?
He needs to get through the primaries first.
The U.S. Constitution is couched in timeless truths (as is the Bible). Our founders held dear, stood for, and died or risked death for these timeless values. Today those that stand for these same values are called "fringe" by RINO's & the left wing. Forget about 'em and their false claim to whatever they perceive as "mainstream" and let's move on.
I moved on a long time ago. I don't waste time on fringe candidates.
Let's not waste time either on "political mainstream", especially when it's perceived to be going against these timeless values we hold to be dear and "self evident".
I hold that fringe candidates being a complete and utter waste of time as very self evident. By their very nature they do not hold timeless values that I hold dear.
Haven't you, with this post, violated the rule you're espousing?
No.
Angry archivists and historians denounced the unprecedented hijacking of public property to private hands. Tom Connors, of the Society of American Archivists, said the transfer seemed part of a movement to "create barriers to the American citizen's right to know what their governments are doing."
The families of the police and fire rescuers who died in the attack balked at Giuliani's plan to take up to a year to dole out the money, with his new organization billing $2.2 million in anticipated administrative expenses (including six-figure salaries for friends he appointed as officers). The families argued that the fire union had far more quickly distributed $111 million with an estimated administrative cost of just $30,000.
Under embarrassing pressure from the victims' families, unions and state Attorney General Elliot Spitzer, Giuliani backed down. He promised to distribute the money within 60 days and fund his overhead from new donations. The families of the deceased rescuers, the real heroes of the September 11 attacks, received a one-time benefit of about $230,000 each from the Giuliani-privatized fund in 2002. That year, the former mayor earned some $8 million in speaking fees alone, more than $650,000 per month.
New York conveniently forgot the 1996 federal ban on sanctuary laws until a gang of five Mexicans—four of them illegal—abducted and brutally raped a 42-year-old mother of two near some railroad tracks in Queens. The NYPD had already arrested three of the illegal aliens numerous times for such crimes as assault, attempted robbery, criminal trespass, illegal gun possession, and drug offenses. The department had never notified the INS.
Nope.
Don't look at the glass as 97% empty, look at it as 3% full.
/Rudy-bot logic
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