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Rudy Giuliani got good news earlier this week from a CBS poll that most people have learned to mistrust -- for good reason -- but Rasmussen may provide some corroboration today. According to the normally reliable pollster, Rudy has his first significant lead in head-to-head polling against Hillary Clinton, and the crosstabs show some surprising depth (via Instapundit): After being virtually tied with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for several months, Republican contender Rudy Giuliani now leads Clinton up 47% to 40% in the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. In the match-up of the frontrunners, this result marks...

When Fred Thompson finally announces his candidacy next month, it will be the closest thing to a successful draft of a presidential candidate in more than a half-century. It isn't that the actor-turned-U.S. senator-turned-actor had to have his arm twisted to run. But Thompson did need to be convinced it would be more than a fool's errand, and he clearly was not planning on running for president until others sought him out. The rest of the current White House aspirants, all of whom have been planning to run since at least the end of 2004, have been thinking about becoming...

August 15, 2007 State of the Race: Intrade and Endorsement Race The much anticipated, often imitated, never duplicated endorsement race update is here! Before we get to it, though, let’s take a post-Ames look at the Intrade numbers (movement is from the beginning of August to now): Rank Name Value Movement 1 Giuliani 36.5 -0.2 2 Romney 23.2 +4.4 3 Thompson 21.8 -9.0 4 McCain 6.4 +0.6 5 Paul 5.7 +2.6 6 Huckabee 3.5 +2.7 7 Gingrich 3.4 +0.2 8 Hagel 0.3 +0.1 9 Brownback 0.2 E   Tancredo 0.2 +0.1 11 Hunter 0.1 E   T Thompson — —...

The 2008 race for president in Iowa and around the country is evolving. In both parties, issues of electability are motivating many activists. In the Republican race, Tommy Thompson dropped out, while Fred Thompson will soon enter. Tommy inspired no one. Fred has potential. Rudy Giuliani continues to lead the GOP race, which is surprising to many who thought he would fade as socially conservative voters became aware of his pro-choice positions. But with conservatives continuing to split their votes among several candidates, Giuliani has maintained his lead in polls. It is also true that we media types may be...

John McCain's numbers are plummeting, possibly because of the immigration debate. That's my analysis, and Rasmussen Reports has come to the same conclusion. Meanwhile, the Romney surge has continued, and he's now second in the country. Mitt is bound to catch pro-choice gun-control Giuliani soon too. The story: The immigration reform debate may be shaking up the race for the Republican Presidential nomination. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has inched past Arizona Senator John McCain for second place in the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone poll. Just two weeks ago, Romney was in fourth place among GOP hopefuls. Romney is...

The Brody File just got off the phone with a prominent Evangelical leader who has come to know Fred Thompson. He told me that he's very impressed with him and so are other Evangelical leaders. This leader didn't want to be identified because now is not the time to go public but suffice to say that he seems to be on board with the Fred Thompson campaign. Let me summarize some other points this person told me. He's been "pleasantly surprised with Thompson's knowledge on key issues", issues that are important to Evangelicals. Though he doesn't believe Thompson will necessarily...

Anyone who watched Rudolph W. Giuliani preside over ground zero in the days after 9/11 glimpsed elements of his strength: decisiveness, determination, self-confidence. Those qualities were also on display over the months he directed the cleanup of the collapsed World Trade Center. But today, with evidence that thousands of people who worked at ground zero have become sick, many regard Mr. Giuliani’s triumph of leadership as having come with a human cost. An examination of Mr. Giuliani’s handling of the extraordinary recovery operation during his last months in office shows that he seized control and largely limited the influence of...

On Dec. 7, 2001, nearly three months after the terrorist attack that had made him a national hero and a little over three weeks before he would leave office, New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani took the first official step toward making himself rich. The letter he dispatched to the city Conflicts of Interest Board that day asked permission to begin forming a consulting firm with three members of his outgoing administration. The company, Giuliani said, would provide “management consulting service to governments and business” and would seek out partners for a “wide-range of possible business, management and financial services”...

Rudy Giuliani could be the death knell of the Reagan Coalition, that successful alliance of economic, defense, and social conservatives forged in the 1976 Republican primary. In his insurgent campaign against President Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan built the architecture for a durable political coalition of supply-siders, budget hawks, Cold Warriors, law-and-order advocates, welfare reformers, pro-lifers, defenders of the Second Amendment, and others. He integrated these main elements of the post-war conservative intellectual movement into a successful, winning political juggernaut that was, until recently, the Republican Party. In recent years the social component of the coalition has been augmented by pro-family...

  Home | Previous Page | Source URL: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/apr/07041705.html LifeSiteNews.com Tuesday April 17, 2007 Giuliani Outrages Conservatives With "Get Beyond" Abortion Snipe By Peter J. Smith DES MOINES, Iowa, April 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Former New York Mayor and Republican presidential candidate Rudolf "Rudy" Giuliani told supporters in Iowa that Republicans needs to "get beyond" pro-life issues and choose a candidate who can win the presidency in 2008. Giuliani - a candidate known more for his leadership during the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks than his liberal views - told Republicans Friday at a campaign stop in Des Moines that...

Rudy Giuliani to college kids jittery over the Virginia Tech shootings.....at New England College.... defended what critics call his evolving position on gun control. In the 1990s, Giuliani said, he did support an extension of a federal assault-weapons ban and stricter anti-gun enforcement on city streets. "I did use our own laws in NYC very effectively".........But he said, "I agree with the Second Amendment"..... Giuliani said federal law shouldn't bar states from adopting their own gun-control measures. "What works in NY might not work in Texas," he said.

As the violence in Iraq continues despite greater troop presence, Democratic strategists see Republican candidates facing an increasingly daunting task of keeping the White House after 2008. Most vulnerable, insiders say, is John McCain, the staunchest supporter of the war among GOP candidates. Once seen as the inevitable GOP nominee, his campaign is faltering badly. While plenty believe he'll turn his luck around--his campaign staff is stocked with former Bush campaign people--others see it as nearly finished. "The general feeling around town is that McCain is done," says a strategist with a top Democratic consulting firm. "And if any Republican...

Interesting: where Giuliani, as mayor of New York, championed the cause of legal immigrants and often defended illegal immigrants, ‘he now talks of penalties for people […] illegally [in the US] and requirements for them to wait at the back of the line. And while he once pushed policies like providing schooling for the children of illegal immigrants by saying, “The reality is that they are here, and they’re going to remain here,” now he emphasizes denying amnesty.’ His aides describe this development as a “shift in tone”, explaining that “his basic thinking has not changed, but that his emphasis...

As Earth Day dawns Sunday, Americans should consider the relationship between environmentalists and the former mayor of the capital of Earth. From New York's City Hall, Rudolph W. Giuliani successfully confronted green zealots while advancing science and technology. Here again, Giuliani stands well right of where his detractors might expect. The West Nile virus debuted in the Western Hemisphere in Queens, New York's College Point community in August 1999. Among 62 New York State residents who contracted West Nile encephalitis (brain swelling) that year, seven died. Rather than study the problem to death, that summer and in 2000, Giuliani launched...

We've got some real challenges facing us. FR was established to fight against government corruption, overstepping, and abuse and to fight for a return to the limited constitutional government as envisioned and set forth by our founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and other founding documents. One of the biggest cases of government corruption, overstepping and abuse that I know of is its disgraceful headlong slide into a socialist hell. Our founders never intended for abortion to be the law of the land. And they never intended the Supreme Court to be a legislative body. They...

Iowans Uninspired by GOP Field By: Jonathan Martin DES MOINES -- "Wide open" was the preferred phrase used by Iowa Republicans at the party's Lincoln Day Dinner on Saturday to describe the party's presidential field. But while Rep. Tom Latham, Iowa Republican Party Executive Director Chuck Laudner and Polk County Republican Chairman Ted Sporer all used those two words, the audience reaction to the nine candidates who made their case to the party faithful was best captured by four others: "none of the above." The tepid response of the 1,000 Iowa Republicans in attendance at the party's annual fundraiser and...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new national poll shows the issue of abortion is hurting Rudy Giuliani as he's now slipping in the overall lead he has over his top rivals for the party's presidential nomination. The survey is the first to come out since a flap over whether he supported taxpayer funding of abortion. A new CNN poll released Monday shows that Sen. John McCain, the Arizona lawmaker who had been sliding in the polls, has slightly recovered. He cut Giuliani's double digit lead by 10 points and now the former New York City mayor leads McCain by a...