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Zogby: Obama Beats 'Rudy McRomney' Democrat Barack Obama would defeat any of the three Republican front-runners - Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney - in a head-to-head presidential election, but McCain and Giuliani would outpoll Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Edwards, a surprising new poll reveals. Zogby polled nearly 1,000 likely voters – 377 Democrats, 357 Republicans and 258 Independents. The 2008 GOP front-runners, sometimes referred to by political wags as "Rudy McRomney," showed mixed results in the Zogby poll. Asked whom they would vote for if the race was between John McCain and Hillary Clinton, 46.6 percent chose...

Giuliani in a dress: Will voters care? By SARA KUGLER ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER NEW YORK -- It is difficult to shock New Yorkers, yet Rudy Giuliani teetered close to the line when he sauntered onto a stage wearing a platinum-blond wig, a face full of makeup, dainty white gloves and a frilly pink gown filled out in all the right places. His appearance at an annual political roast was exactly 10 years ago, and at the time, the idea of the tough-talking mayor in a busty ball gown raised eyebrows but was mostly accepted as a good joke - adhering...

Zogby: Romney Rockets in New Hampshire Poll Latest New Hampshire telephone poll shows Romney's support nearly doubles to 25 percent to tie McCain; Giuliani trails at 19 percent. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has rocketed to the top of the field of contenders for the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary crown, running dead even with Arizona Sen. John McCain at 25 percent each, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows. With Romney’s ascension, the GOP presidential race looks just like the Democratic contest — a three-way battle! While McCain has held mostly steady at the top of the Republican field...

Rudy Giuliani, NO Fiscal Conservative By George Marlin Wednesday, April 4, 2007 When Steve Forbes was seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 1996, then Mayor Rudy Giuliani ridiculed his proposal to scrap the federal income tax code and replace it with a simple flat-tax. Giuliani called Forbes plan a "mistake" and said if implemented "would really be a disaster." Despite these smears, Steve Forbes now believes Rudy embraces the flat-tax concept and endorsed him for president claiming he "will inspire the next generation of the Reagan Revolution." Apparently Forbes forgot that when running for mayor, Rudy Giuliani showcased his liberal...

GOP Gets Swamped in Money Hunt By: Jeanne Cummings April 4, 2007 08:34 PM EST In the much-watched first quarter of presidential fundraising, the Democratic candidates raised significantly more than their Republican counterparts, creating a huge gap that is putting added pressure on a party already struggling to regroup after the November elections. According to preliminary fundraising numbers released by the campaigns this week, the combined Democratic field raised about $80 million, compared with roughly $50 million collected by their GOP adversaries. In 1999, the last presidential race without an incumbent in the race, Republicans raised $33 million in the...

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (CNN) -- Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told CNN Wednesday he supports public funding for some abortions, a position he advocated as mayor and one that will likely put the GOP presidential candidate at odds with social conservatives in his party. "Ultimately, it's a constitutional right, and therefore if it's a constitutional right, ultimately, even if you do it on a state by state basis, you have to make sure people are protected," Giuliani said in an interview with CNN's Dana Bash in Florida's capital city. - Giuliani also vowed to appoint conservative judges to the...

Ad Naseum conservatives are Free Republic are being told that they must abandon a "single-issue" mentality on more than a half-dozen issues that represent a good portion of the Republican party platform and support Rudolph Giuliani in an effort to avoid a Hillary Clinton Presidency. But, who really are the single-issue voters here? I contend it is those supporting Giuliani. Giuliani is further to the left on social issues such as abortion and the homosexual agenda. He is radically in favor of curtailing the second amendment. Giuliani has a record of aiding illegal immigrants, even to the point of filing...

Striking Similarities of Clinton, Giuliani BY RUSSELL BERMAN - Staff Reporter of the Sun April 3, 2007 WASHINGTON — The Democratic and Republican front-runners for president who will campaign in Iowa today are a New York politician with a history of marital trouble who favors abortion rights and gay rights, opposes immediate and total withdrawal from Iraq, favors intervening in the crisis in Darfur, uses September 11 as a constant touchstone, and has a stump speech calling for America to pursue energy independence the same way it reacted to the Soviet launch of Sputnik 50 years ago — and a...

Rudy Giuliani Courts Conservatives on Radio Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is running ads on conservative talk radio shows in a direct appeal to the Republican voters who could determine the fate of his presidential campaign. The 30-second spots are airing during Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity shows, popular broadcasts with the conservative base of the GOP. The campaign would not reveal the cost of the ad campaign but said the ads were running nationwide. Giuliani is leading the Republican field in national polls of Republicans. But he is still viewed with apprehension by social conservatives over his...

It's Crazy to Nominate Giuliani John LeBoutillier Monday, March 26, 2007 Here is an argument to consider: Our federal government is so poorly run, so inept, and incompetent that the American voter in 2008 may opt for a tough, ruthless, red-tape-cutting quasi-dictator to get things done. After Iraq, Katrina, and Walter Reed, some frustrated voters may have lost patience with trying to do things the "right way" and vote for someone who brags about his successes ? no matter how they are achieved. And that "dictator" would be the man who openly boasts about turning around New York City; cleaning...

Gee, where ever conservatives congregate and vote online, they choose a conservative over RINO Rudy. That's been overwhelming true here, at Sean Hannity's website and, now, at NewsMax. It seems informed conservatives don't want a RINO as the GOP nominee.