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Rudy a Lefty? Yeah, Right.
The Washington Post ^ | October 28, 2007 | David Greenberg

Posted on 10/28/2007 4:43:03 AM PDT by libstripper

You wouldn't know it from reading the papers, but the favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination is a confirmed right-winger. On issues such as free speech and religion, secrecy and due process, civil rights and civil liberties, pornography and democracy, this moralist and self-styled lawman has exhibited all the key hallmarks of Bush-era conservatism.

That candidate is Rudolph W. Giuliani.

As any New Yorker can tell you, the last word anyone in the 1990s would have attached to the brash, furniture- breaking mayor was "liberal" -- and the second-to-last was "moderate." With his take-many-prisoners approach to crime and his unerring pro-police instincts, the prosecutor-turned-proconsul made his mark on the city not by embracing its social liberalism but by trying to crush it.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antigun; autocrat; crossdresser; giuliani; gungrabber; julieannie; liberalstatist; proabortion; rinorudy; rudy; rudygiuliani; rudyisaliberal; sickofrudy; zotbait
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To: saganite

Your posting #41 is well said.

If anything can be said in Rudy’s defense, however, Rudy seems to be more forceful and communicative, less Politically correct and with more backbone than the current Whitehouse occupant.


101 posted on 10/28/2007 8:39:43 AM PDT by So Circumstanced
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To: jonathanmo

I do not care, no matter what I will never vote for the liberal statist elitist SOB.


102 posted on 10/28/2007 8:56:09 AM PDT by Hydroshock ("The Constitution should be taken like mountain whiskey -- undiluted and untaxed." - Sam Ervin)
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To: Politicalmom
Have you ever personally MET Robinson? I’m tellin’ ya, ever since I got my new triple thick tinfoil hat with the pneumatic seals around the edge, I have been seeing things with crystal clarity.

I can now hear the black Helicopters way before they even come into sight.

103 posted on 10/28/2007 9:33:36 AM PDT by Eagles Talon IV
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To: Hydroshock

“Rino rudy a liberal statist. I will never vote for the pro abortiion, anti gun, pro gay worthless SOB.”

I heard last night somewhere he somehow pioneered the sanctuary cities (illegal immigration) idea a few years ago. Would be interesting today to ask him what he thinks about the anchor baby concept now on national TV.


104 posted on 10/28/2007 9:45:17 AM PDT by Hillbillary
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To: Hillbillary

Who knows? He two faced.


105 posted on 10/28/2007 9:48:37 AM PDT by Hydroshock ("The Constitution should be taken like mountain whiskey -- undiluted and untaxed." - Sam Ervin)
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To: Hillbillary

Pioneered sanctuary cities? Nope. He just continued city policy started before he was elected. Sanctuary cities developed in the 1980s in response to the lack of Federal enforcement of illegal immigration laws. The Feds expected the locals to carry the load, and eventually the locals refused because of the lack of support.


106 posted on 10/28/2007 9:54:23 AM PDT by jonathanmo (So many phobes, so little time...)
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To: kjo

I’m not saying I wont vote for him if hes the nominee,...obviously I will. I’m just saying he’s not my first choice,


107 posted on 10/28/2007 9:57:20 AM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Chuin, Master of Sinanju (emeritus))
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To: jonathanmo

So you admit he help violate US law in supporting the policy of sanctuary cities. And he is a pro illegal invader.


108 posted on 10/28/2007 10:11:37 AM PDT by Hydroshock ("The Constitution should be taken like mountain whiskey -- undiluted and untaxed." - Sam Ervin)
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To: Eagles Talon IV
Sure. Jim Robinson, who refuses to vote for Giuliani, is a plant from DU.

I told you to keep your head down.

109 posted on 10/28/2007 10:17:29 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Trails of trouble, roads of battle, paths of victory we shall walk.)
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To: Hydroshock
Sure, the Feds put together a law, basically saying the Federal goverment was lousy at their job, and expected the locals to take care of it. Giuliani told them to stuff it, and if they were serious about immigration law, the Feds had to prove it first before NYC would cooperate again.

You seem to forget WHY the sanctuary laws developed in the 80's.

I know "Rudy is pro-illegal invader" is a nice bumper sticker, but illegal immigration is much more complicated than that and needs a myriad of solutions that involves all levels of government, STARTING with the Federal government securing the borders.Sanctuary cities will fade away after that.
110 posted on 10/28/2007 10:20:37 AM PDT by jonathanmo (So many phobes, so little time...)
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To: All

Rudy has not gained the nomination yet and likely will not do so. Isn’t it a bit early to be condemning those who have retained their honor, integrity and principle and refuse to vote for an immoral, pro-abortion, flip-flopping media creation?

If one does not vote for Rudy, one does not vote for Rudy. For it to be truly said that one elected Hillary, one would have to cast a vote for Hillary. These separation by degree arguments and least smelly turd comparatives are contemptible and dishonest. I for one, am sick of them.

To all those capitulating camp followers who dare suggest principled conservatives somehow want Hillary because they refuse to vote contrary to their beliefs; I invite you to participate in the osculation of my posterior and those of whom you have insulted.

I know there are some who don’t care that the last vestiges of conservatism seem to be circling the drain, but I do. So, take your “Hillary as bogeyman” fear-mongering and best ordure comparatives to someone who gives a damn.

I am not impractical, but firm in my beliefs and my resolve as are many others on this forum. I realize, and it looks likely, the GOP will again be represented by a posturing and pandering creation of the media. As long as candidates “promise” some seem content to believe them. That is always worked so well before, why not, right? Everyone knows a candidate has never lied or broken a promise. They do it every time and do you know why they do it? They do it because we vote for them and are complicit in their dishonesty, because we were ignorant enough to trust them. Did you ever wonder why the candidates with impeccable credentials and a history of doing things to move conservatism forward and that have consistently been socially conservative never seem to be “electable”? I am far more interested in the answer to that question because I already know why a conservative wouldn’t cast a vote for Rudy.


111 posted on 10/28/2007 10:41:45 AM PDT by WildcatClan (DUNCAN HUNTER- The only choice for true conservatives)
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To: jonathanmo
He supported a sanctuary city policy that is all I need to know about him being against me on immigration.
112 posted on 10/28/2007 11:01:51 AM PDT by Hydroshock ("The Constitution should be taken like mountain whiskey -- undiluted and untaxed." - Sam Ervin)
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To: kjo
Look...would you rather have the Clintons back for eight years?

If Rudy's nominated that's exactly what's going to happen.

113 posted on 10/28/2007 11:04:06 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: jalisco555
Then be prepared to hear the words "President Hillary Clinton" every day for eight long, long years.

Presidents are elected to single 8 year terms now? When did this happen?

114 posted on 10/28/2007 11:06:09 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: jalisco555
But the Fairness Doctrine will shut down conservative talk radio. Campaign finance laws and hate speech laws will shut down web sites like Free Republic. Health care will be nationalized and we'll all be paying for abortions with our tax dollars. And our foreign policy will be set in Beijing.

Ain't gonna happen. Hillary would have to deal with a revitalized GOP in Congress and public. All of this has to go through Congress anyway, unless Hillary will receive magical dictatorship powers upon taking the oath of office. And ask King George back in 1776 what happened when he tried to pull that.

Rudy's nominated = 3rd party

115 posted on 10/28/2007 11:09:47 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Eagles Talon IV
Actually their behavior is best explained by the theory of Natural Selection.

No, it's called sticking by our long-held principles and refusing to compromise on them by voting for POS pro-abortionists.

116 posted on 10/28/2007 11:13:46 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"No, it's called sticking by our long-held principles and refusing to compromise on them by voting for POS pro-abortionists."

No, it's called going down with the ship after blowing a whole in the hull AND tying everyone on board up to ensure they all die along with you.

117 posted on 10/28/2007 11:21:46 AM PDT by Eagles Talon IV
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To: dangus
For someone who was so hated by liberals, perhaps you can explain why he received the endorsement of the Liberal Party?

For access to Rudy's administration. It was a political move on their part. Rudy treated Liberals like crap in his first 4 years and the Liberal party had been shut out -- so they had to do something to try to kiss his ass. So they gave him the endorsement. And given that Rudy was a republican running in one of the reddest cities in the nation -- it didn't hurt to have his name not only on the Republican line of the ballot, but on the Liberal line as well.
118 posted on 10/28/2007 11:31:38 AM PDT by Sadecki ("Do not mistake for conspiracy and intrigue what can best be explained by stupidity and incompetence)
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To: Hydroshock
That's what I did in 1992 and look what it got me...8 years of Clinton. I learned my lesson.
119 posted on 10/28/2007 11:41:14 AM PDT by nycgal
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To: Hydroshock

Understood where you are coming from...when I was young, I used to believe everything was just black and white as well...


120 posted on 10/28/2007 11:50:54 AM PDT by jonathanmo (So many phobes, so little time...)
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