No way would I vote for Giuliani! Fred Thompson is the man!
Yes. But I can't help thinking that USA and TNT cable networks would have to shut down 60 days prior to the election.
No.
..no, but thanks for asking...
Guiliani, if he is serious about entering national politics, needs first to get himself elected on a statewide election (i.e. Senator or Governor, perhaps even State Attorney General), serve at least one term, then come to us and claim that he desires to "serve" the Republican Party.
Right now, just like today's youth, Guiliani wants to start at the top rather than working behind the trenches and getting blisters on his feet, serving the people of his state, not merely his city.
Guiliani is merely "star power" to the media and boys smoking cigars in the back rooms attempting to be king makers.
I would if that was what we were given come election day, but my choice would be Thompson and Hunter, or Hunter and Thompson.
Well, did you really mean:
"Assume that it is election time. Assume that the Republican ticket is Giuliani/Thompson with the Democratic ticket being Obama or Clinton/whomever. Would you vote for Giuliani/Thompson?"
If so, then yes. Better Giuliani than Obama or Clinton. Is Rudy my first choice? No. Would I prefer Thompson or Gingrich? Yes. But as of this point, I'll back the Republican ticket as being better than the Democratic ticket. To me that just makes sense.
Thompson/Watts
Thompson/Hunter
Thompson/Gingrich
Rudy could serve effectively in a Thompson cabinet...
Yes, and I suggested Thompson as Rudy's VP a few days ago when he most recently started making noise about running.
I wouldn't vote for Mr. GIULIANI ...
But conservatives who are letting the Hillary bogeyman scare them onto the Rudy bandwagon a year before the primaries are not thinking very clearly.
Is Rudy better than Hillary? Yes.
Is Rudy a solid conservative? No. And before the latest barrage of pro-Rudy propaganda on here, practically all of us would have agreed on that.
Would Rudy beat Hillary? Likely, but at the long-term cost of a possible fracturing of the Republican coalition.
Is Rudy the only candidate that can beat Hillary? Frankly, I've never understand why anyone thinks so.
Of course. But neither one of them would be VP.
Gulianians just don't understand that conservatives want a conservative - on both social and economic grounds - in office. Now, Republicans' have blown it entirely on the economic conservatism front in the past 12 years - but that doesn't mean the answer is to drop the social conservatism in response.
Rudy has a higher profile and is already high in the polls so he makes more sense as the Presidential canidate.
Geez, would you guys not preordain anybody and let the blasted primary voters have their say?!?!
No.
No, The idea of putting a nice gift tag, and bow on a pile of dog doo comes to mind..The main package is still dog doo, no matter how you might try to pretty it up.