Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Bloggers to Blame for Rudy's Bad Week? (Rudy Blames Bloggers for His Woes).
Townhall.com ^ | Friday, April 06, 2007 | Matt Lewis

Posted on 04/06/2007 11:16:37 AM PDT by TitansAFC

Has it crossed your mind that this may be an extremely rough primary in 2008? I asked him.

"It has, and it will be," Giuliani replied. But he also said he did not think the attacks would come directly from other Republican presidential candidates.

"I think more of this comes from the atmosphere in the blogging atmosphere, in the instant news atmosphere, and the minute analysis atmosphere," he said.

Is Rudy blaming bloggers for his recent bad publicity?

Rudy's recent problems have arisen from interviews he granted or speeches he gave.

The most damning information has come from YouTube videos, which merely give the voters a chance to hear Rudy -- in his own words. His primary problems -- the ones that have stuck -- have not come from bloggers scurrilous accusations -- they have come from bloggers reporting his own words.

Debate and argument are healthy for Democracy. And as a conservative, I am happy that we are having these fights now -- rather than in the General Election. Imagine if we didn't find out that Rudy Giuliani was in favor of taxpayer-funded abortion until two weeks before the Genereal Election. In that scenario, we could actually have a Republican candidate who is more pro-choice than the Democrat nominee ...

By going through this process, bloggers are ultimately doing two things:

1. Helping inform the voters to make a better decision regarding who best represents their values.

2. Ensuring Republican voters have enough information to nominate a strong Republican candidate who has been tested -- before going into a General Election.

Granted, not all bloggers are responsible. That's how free speech works. But the cure for our problems is more debate and argument -- not less.

Enough of the hand-wringing. Politics is tough. Get a helmet!


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; elections; giuliani; lizhanoverforexample; rudy; sickofrudy; stoprudy2008; verysickofrudy; veryverysickofrudy
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 181-200201-220221-240241-245 next last
To: jla; Liz
You really do have a way with words!

Indeed she does....

201 posted on 04/06/2007 4:14:46 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 160 | View Replies]

To: veronica
It is YOU folks who refuse to commit to voting GOP, no matter what.

You want people to vote GOP, NO MATTER WHAT (or who)? Well, you're clear about that.

And in case you missed it, the people you are harrassing are supporting REPUBLICAN candidates.

????????

202 posted on 04/06/2007 4:22:09 PM PDT by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 187 | View Replies]

To: AuntB

Kinda odd...we are for CONSERVATIVE Republicans : )


203 posted on 04/06/2007 4:35:00 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson in 08! Or Rudy/Hillary, if you want America finished off!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 202 | View Replies]

To: TitansAFC
























204 posted on 04/06/2007 4:41:52 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NeoCaveman
My what thin skin Rudy has....

Get used to it.
This whine will be repeated over and over and will become the clarion call for Election 2008.

Wait until McCain really gets into the fray.
What we do here and what others do in Cyberspace will set his neck veins a-bulging.

205 posted on 04/06/2007 4:57:59 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Don't question faith. Don't answer lies.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: EternalVigilance; Duncan Hunter Ambassador

Nice Catch.

I guess it never occurred to the rude team that the guy should just operate above board, like Duncan Hunter’s team. Duncan’s son posts right here on Free Republic as Duncan Hunter Ambassador.

It doesn’t surprise me that rudy’s guy was caught in a lie within 5 posts of starting.


206 posted on 04/06/2007 5:38:36 PM PDT by Kevmo (Duncan Hunter just needs one Rudy G Campaign Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBtPIrEleM)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 88 | View Replies]

To: Kevmo
Rudy’s “guy” is one of the most accurate and respected pollsters in the business. He’s not just a schlepper with a computer.
207 posted on 04/06/2007 5:43:55 PM PDT by veronica
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 206 | View Replies]

To: veronica; Beagle8U; Duncan Hunter Ambassador; egoeas

See post #148

To: Jim Robinson; egoeas
Wow Jim, the guy has made only 5 posts and already is caught in a lie....
“supporting school vouchers and school accountibility before it was the in thing to do, and on and on and on!)”

Rudy has never supported vouchers. There is a major difference between schools of choice/ charter schools and vouchers.

Vouchers can be used at any private or religious school and the funding goes to them.

If Rudy supports vouchers it would be a major change in his position and one he should explain to all the liberal union teachers he is courting for votes.

148 posted on 04/06/2007 1:09:06 PM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic — One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super Walmart for news .)


208 posted on 04/06/2007 5:48:03 PM PDT by Kevmo (Duncan Hunter just needs one Rudy G Campaign Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBtPIrEleM)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 207 | View Replies]

To: Kevmo
Rudy and school vouchers...

"Giuliani wanted to work the same dramatic reform on the city’s K–12 school system, but the entrenched educational bureaucracy and his lack of direct control over the school system stymied him. The best he could do was to use the bully pulpit as well as his influence over the two board of education members (out of a total of seven) whom he appointed. He did this so relentlessly that he ultimately pushed out two schools chancellors who wouldn’t install the reforms that he believed would spur dramatic, systemic change—reforms that included using city money for vouchers to provide low-income students in failing public schools with scholarships to private schools. He never could get his vouchers, however, and when he managed to prod the board into trying to privatize five of the city’s worst public schools, the board’s pointed lack of enthusiasm scared off necessary parental approval, and the idea died.

Although Giuliani didn’t start out as a proponent of school choice, his frustration in trying to turn around a huge school system where the teachers’ union and the bureaucrats worked to stymie reform made him into a powerful proponent of vouchers, which he believed would force the public schools to compete for students with their private counterparts. “[T]he whole notion of choice is really about more freedom for people, rather than being subjugated by a government system that says you have no choice about the education of your child,” he said.

209 posted on 04/06/2007 5:56:21 PM PDT by veronica
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 208 | View Replies]

To: Kevmo

I have the sickening feeling that Ed Goeas came to FR in all good faith to share his vast knowledge with the posters here, whereupon he was called a liar. How tacky.


210 posted on 04/06/2007 5:58:03 PM PDT by veronica
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 208 | View Replies]

To: Madame Dufarge; jla

Blush-—but staying humble is a real problem (grin).


211 posted on 04/06/2007 6:02:36 PM PDT by Liz (Hunter: For some candidates, a conservative constituency is an inconvenience. For me, it is my hope.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 201 | View Replies]

To: Kevmo; egoeas
In fact this article in The Nation (a leftie mag) attacks Rudy BECAUSE he supported vouchers.

The Full Rudy: The Man, the Mayor, the Myth

212 posted on 04/06/2007 6:04:39 PM PDT by veronica
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 208 | View Replies]

To: Liz

For you, it should be easy...


213 posted on 04/06/2007 6:05:17 PM PDT by veronica
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 211 | View Replies]

To: Madame Dufarge
The hatred some women here have for Rudy's wife has the unmistakable stench of envy.
214 posted on 04/06/2007 6:09:59 PM PDT by veronica
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 201 | View Replies]

To: Kevmo
Google is your friend. :)

More on vouchers...

---SNIP---"Vouchers are daggers that plunge into the heart of what is the American way," Sen. Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, told a May 15 United Federation of Teachers, or UFT According to the New York Post's Maria Alvarez, Schumer claimed that spending public dollars on private schools will "develop chaos and divide our country on religion and race."

Schumer is an old-line liberal who clearly speaks his mind without the benefit of modern-day weasel words. Now he is politically shouting "fire" in a packed Carnegie Hall.

While Schumer sees a conflagration, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani seeks to ignite a pilot light. Specifically, he wants to test vouchers for two to three years in just one of New York's 32 school districts. Of the city's 1.1 million public-school students, about 3,000 poor kids would receive vouchers averaging $6,500, redeemable at private or parochial campuses. "Let's see if it works" Giuliani suggested in his Jan. 14 State of the City address. "If it does work" he added, "maybe we can have the courage to present another alternative to our children."

215 posted on 04/06/2007 6:14:11 PM PDT by veronica
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 208 | View Replies]

To: Kevmo; Beagle8U

FYI...


216 posted on 04/06/2007 6:14:36 PM PDT by veronica
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 208 | View Replies]

To: areafiftyone; Jake The Goose

Ping...


217 posted on 04/06/2007 6:16:27 PM PDT by veronica
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 216 | View Replies]

To: TitansAFC
Rudy acknowledges that A) this has already been and will be a rough primary, and that B) most of the flak is coming from bloggers, and not from other political candidates.

That's just a candid statement of exactly what's happenning.

218 posted on 04/06/2007 6:20:52 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 007girl
"The fact that you are blaming anything but your own fat mouth..."

Can you show me where's he's blaming anyone for anything at all?

219 posted on 04/06/2007 6:21:46 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 98 | View Replies]

To: Luis Gonzalez
Blogging, or posting, is fine. As long as you are not spreading lies and disinformation. Judging by the disinformation just on this thread, about Rudy and vouchers, I can see what he means.
220 posted on 04/06/2007 6:26:17 PM PDT by veronica
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 218 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 181-200201-220221-240241-245 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson