Posted on 04/17/2007 9:05:10 PM PDT by FairOpinion
The News: Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens Jr. emerges as a leading fund raiser for Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani.
The Upshot: Mr. Giuliani so far has raised more money in this key state than all Democratic and Republican presidential candidates.
T. Boone Pickens Jr. has made most of his estimated $2.5 billion fortune in the oil market over the past eight years. Now, the Texan is betting big money on a bull market in another commodity: the presidential candidacy of Rudy Giuliani.
The 78-year-old hedge-fund manager and former corporate raider says he has raised more than $500,000 for Mr. Giuliani's campaign.
Mr. Pickens says he first met Mr. Giuliani at the taping of a television show in 1987. But he didn't see him again until 2001, when, as New York City's mayor, Mr. Giuliani welcomed him to his office after Mr. Pickens made a $1 million personal donation to the Twin Towers Fund that helped families of firefighters and police officers killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attack.
Impressed by Mr. Giuliani's handling of the attack, Mr. Pickens says he got to know Mr. Giuliani better over dinner at the home of Mr. Bailey in April 2005. Mr. Pickens says he asked Mr. Giuliani then whether he would consider a presidential run. "He said his business was going well and he wasn't sure," Mr. Pickens recalls.
Mr. Pickens backed President Bush in the 2004 election. ... he did contribute $3 million to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and its controversial advertising campaign attacking the Vietnam War record of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic nominee.
"Stylistically, Texans like the Giuliani swagger," says Republican political consultant Roger Stone. "He's a tough guy, and Texans like tough guys."
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And they suck.....
I hear he’s going to let us keep our guns if we promise to use them only for abortions.
Doing what we have been doing hasn’t done a whole lot either.
I’ll vote my conscience, and it won’t be for Rudy.
Of course.
WHO ?
Forbes, and T Bone(rape your pension fund)
I will NOT vote for Rudy PERIOD.
Right now the Republican Slogan ought to be “Vote for us, we don’t suck quite as bad”.
It’s not my fault we have RINOS all over the Party, it’s the idiots who put them there.
As a PS, I would rather be inclined to vote FOR something not against something.
A vote for Rudy would just be a vote against Hillary for me...and a vote against my convictions.
Lots of R’s have weak spines and haven’t fought the good fight. They put up moderates/centrists because they were afraid the almighty Party would lose. We got ‘Rat Lite.
I used to feel the same way, I really did. After watching 10 years of a weak R majority and then total control (allegedly) I won’t do it again.
The Party can run Conservatives or they can enjoy another 40 years in the Desert.
So, bottom line, if it`s Rudy vs Hillorat in Nov `08, Rudy isn`t getting your vote. And you think that there would be no price FOR THE COUNTRY to have to pay? Taxes, judges, a strong foreign policy, tough laws on crime, doesn`t matter to you. More gun control, repeal of the Hyde amendment, reinstatement of the death tax, huge cuts in the military, and the end of the War on terrorists, who cares, you are interested in teaching lessons. Did I get all of that right? Cause that`s what is going to happen if we lose. What I can`t understand is that you seem to want that.
Which pension funds did they rape?
How do we know it’s not him who’s chasing away traffic from FR? Him who smelt it, dealt it.
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