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MoveOn.org is planning to air a television ad in Iowa, which will focus on Giuliani’s “frequent absences” while working with Iraq Study Group, said a MoveOn.org spokesperson. Earlier in the week, the liberal advocacy group took out an ad in The New York Times attacking Petraeus, the top military commander in Iraq. A Giuliani spokeswoman was dismissive of the new television ad. “This is, after all, the same liberal group whose website compared President Bush to Adolf Hitler, the same liberal group that wanted no military response against the Taliban in Afghanistan in the aftermath of September 11,” the spokeswoman...

Rudy’s 50-state strategy By Salena Zito Friday, September 14, 2007 CANONSBURG, PA-One day after the anniversary of the Sept. 11th terror attacks Republican presidential nominee Rudy Giuliani zeroed in on the Democratic front-runners – stinging Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama and John Edwards with the sharpest words in the presidential campaign to date. Giuliani is clearly exercising a strategic move to define himself as the Republican front-runner who hopes to cinch the nomination before his GOP rivals gain steam. And he is increasing the volume on the issue Giuliani believes can catapult him to the White House: a do-or-die fight between...

Many of the emails I received regarding my recent column on Rudy Giuliani agreed with my premise that the problems with his social liberalism outweigh his positive stances on national defense and fiscal conservatism. Still, many more are willing to overlook this; they remain convinced that Rudy is their guy, based mainly on his promise to appoint originalist judges and the “fact” that no other candidate can beat Hillary Clinton. As to the first, what, besides his say-so, gives so many conservatives the idea that he’ll appoint strict constructionalists? One reader lauded Giuliani’s “consistency of sticking to his views” as...

March 19, 2007 6:00 AM America Needs RudyThe cases of Libby and Diallou. By Barbara Lerner I don’t think Rudy Giuliani’s high poll numbers are a fluke or solely a result of his stellar performance in New York on 9/11. I don’t think they’ll drop and stay down when more conservatives learn more about his past marriages or his position on abortion, despite the importance of those issues. I think many Bush supporters, former Bush supporters, and others are drawn to Rudy by a powerful intuitive feeling that he has something America needs badly, something they can’t quite articulate yet,...

A Washington Post-ABC News survey conducted Feb. 22-25 showed 64 percent of all respondents, including Democrats and unaffiliated voters as well as Republicans, said they had a favorable impression of Giuliani, a stronger showing than any other presidential contenders mentioned in the survey. The Pew Research Center also looked at the nominating contests from a historical perspective, and its findings may be more encouraging to Giuliani than to Clinton. Taking into account nearly 50 years of early pre-primary polls, the Pew analysts found that Republican front-runners often go on to capture their party’s nomination, but not so for leading Democrats....

Political observers are falling over themselves trying to determine the cladistics of a newly-emergent population of political animal, the Rudy booster. This appears to be the first new species of Republican to emerge in over two decades in the Family Republicanae (the last being Conservatisi reagani), and displays a particularly odd range of behaviors that call into question the long-term political viability of the new species, as well as that of Republicanae in general if they assume a position of dominance. Some observers have proposed classifying the new population as a subspecies of Rinous rockefelleri, whereas others have made a...

A March fund-raiser for Rudy Giuliani in John McCain's home state is nearly sold out, said one of the event's co-hosts. Barron Thomas, an Arizona-based Republican donor backing Mr. Giuliani said that the $1000 - $2300 tickets for a March 9th event at a private residence is Phoenix are nearly gone. Thomas said that while a McCain fund-raiser on March 3rd "somewhere downtown" had lined up "all the high society guys," Giuliani's fund-raiser was attracting "blue collar and white collar" supporters. The guest list, he said, "cut across economic and cultural lines." Thomas said that he had decided not to...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has endorsed GOP Assemblyman Vincent Ignizio in Tuesday's special election for the South Shore City Council seat. "Vincent is clearly the best choice for the job," said Giuliani, a 2008 Republican Party contender for president. "He has the experience and record of success to represent the people of Staten Island in the City Council." Ignizio (R-South Shore) is facing Democrat Manny Innamorato in the special election to fill the seat left vacant by state Sen. Andrew Lanza (R-Staten Island). Giuliani said Ignizio, a former chief of staff to Lanza and GOP South...

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Former New York mayor and 2008 presidential contender Rudolph Giuliani said Wednesday he is not sure the tide will turn in the war in Iraq . . . "I'm not confident it's all going to turn around," Giuliani told CNN's "Larry King Live." "Who knows that? I mean, you never know that in the middle of the war. "I'm confident that we have to try to make a turnaround, and we just can't walk out, and that it is critical to us that things get to the point in Iraq that we have some degree...

Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City Mayor, has gathered early support to be the Republican candidate in the 2008 presidential race. Last week's Memphis Business Journal Business Pulse survey showed that Democrats seem to be rallying behind one candidate, Sen. Hillary Clinton, in the early stages of the presidential election. The story is similar for Republican voters. MBJ listed some early presidential contenders and asked our online readers: Who do you think will be the Republican candidate for president? The survey, the results of which are unscientific, received 330 votes. The majority of respondents, 51 percent, chose Giuliani. The...