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!
Indeed she does....
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.
????????
Kinda odd...we are for CONSERVATIVE Republicans : )
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.
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.
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 .)
"Giuliani wanted to work the same dramatic reform on the citys K12 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 wouldnt install the reforms that he believed would spur dramatic, systemic changereforms 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 citys worst public schools, the boards pointed lack of enthusiasm scared off necessary parental approval, and the idea died.
Although Giuliani didnt 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.
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.
Blush-—but staying humble is a real problem (grin).
For you, it should be easy...
---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."
FYI...
Ping...
That's just a candid statement of exactly what's happenning.
Can you show me where's he's blaming anyone for anything at all?
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