Rudy Giuliani Throws Hat Into 2008 Presidential Ring

Post Chronicle ^ | 2/1/07

[jmc813]

Same reason I would leave one in an infant's crib. Too dangerous.

Up until the '70s people carried on planes all the time without incident. Plus, if each airline has a choice, you could choose to fly on a no-carry airline. Why not let the consumer decide?

[Beagle8U]

"And I feel that an unborn child is at such an incomplete state of development that aborting it in the first few months is no big deal."

Its a big deal to me and most other Christians but I won't get into a debate on it now.

I really fear that the social issues that some in the party don't think wouldn't be a big deal could cause a landslide loss in 08. I hope not.

We only get one vote but if you're politically active you can bring out others to vote based on the issues.

Where I live I can only get those voters to the polls on the guns, abortion, and gay issues. ( the gay stuff is also a religious issue).

If our candidate can't be sold on those issues I'm back to only one single vote. The Republican party loses several hundred votes just in my small area.

I could be wrong, but I can see that happening everywhere to some extent.

[JCEccles]

Spiff, you might want to add "federal thought-control hate crime legislation" to your table. Ex-prosecutor Giuiliani clearly relishes the opportunity to make criminals out of Americans who don't buy into the radical social liberal agenda. He bragged about how tough he was in New York City after 9/11 in keeping police surveillance over those who expressed anger over Islam and its violent tendencies. In a 2003 speech he lambasted the Europeans for not being tough enough in prosecuting hate crimes.

Although the subject of hate crime legislation is not directly addressed in the 2004 Republican Party platform it is a well known fact that Republicans blocked the most recent social liberal attempt in 2005 to expand federal hate crimes to include gender and sexual orientation.

Rudy is four-square in agreement with radical Democrats on this important issue.

[Nancee]

"You never know, though, maybe he could be drafted!

:-)

[Nancee]

"...some here don't know that men pray for Austin too!!"

It is my opinion that real men do pray!!

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL, who said Rudy wasn't going to run? And what an impressive list of people he has on his growing team. It looks like people are eager the help him.

Watch the media attack him after he formally declares his candidacy, and all their hypocritical "love" for Rudy will disappear like magic once they view him as threat to Hillary. Come to think of it, our fights here on FR will serve as good experience for the fights we will have when Rudy contends for the White House.

Great news, thanks.

[HitmanLV]

Lots of good news for Rudy. I wonder what their internal data shows. He seems to have the wind at his back and a certain bounce to his step.

[Victoria Delsoul]

I concur. Doing pretty good for a loser. ;-)

[Alberta's Child]

Trust me on this one . . . FreeRepublic will not survive a Rudy Giuliani presidency.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Care to explain?

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL, I got it. No need to explain - I'm bit slow this evening.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Bull Moose Party was Teddy Roosevelt...

[Alberta's Child]

The infighting here over his policies would be devastating.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Yes, I realized that.

[MadIvan]

Gun rights. Period. The chances of being killed by a terrorist are miniscule. The chances of being exploited by a govenment out of control are much higher. Without gun rights, the War on Terror is not worth fighting.

I hear this rubbish all the time, but the Federal Government is doing things that George III would have blushed at, yet there is no armed revolt in the streets. The reason being, things overall are pretty good, and the people who did take up arms in Montana or Waco got shot by the FBI. The right to bear a rifle or handgun in this context means very little - if you said that you wanted it for personal protection against criminals, that I would understand. But then again that reason would seem not particularly great against terrorists. As for the threat of being killed by terrorists, the vast majority of people in the urban United States don't share your attitude, I dare say. September 11th taught a big lesson - if you want to be ignorant and forget it, that's not my problem.

Ivan

[MadIvan]

And all of this "we're going to die if Hillary is elected" hysteria is getting really old, really fast.

Read BKO's "Hell to Pay" and come back. Anyone who was here for Impeachment does not want Clinton the Sequel. Anyone sane does not want Clinton the Sequel. If it turns out that it's miscreants on the unreasonable wing of the Republican Party, people who ignore political realities to the point of self-destruction, who let Hillary into power, there's going to be blood on the floor, and the miscreants will be marginalised as a result.

I would hope that you prats are learning from the 2006 election, and what damage is being done to America's image by Nancy Pelosi as Speaker (you look weak, divided and confused) - but it's apparent you have to go whole hog with the arse raping before you realise the problem.

Ivan

[azhenfud]

It was okay the US government betrayed Indians by violating every treaty written without expectation of consequence?? For every tribe in America then, they were either forcably removed or killed out without regard to any treatied to the contrary. You need to brush up on your American history.

Let's ask someone who's ancestors experienced first hand the white man's broken treaties.

Stand Watie, what say ye?

[trickyricky]

"I think I see what your problem is; you can't count."

I almost majored in math, I can count.

I'll save this thread and resurrect it just in case the Republican Party is stupid enough to run a liberal.
Then when you and all of the rest of the "wise ones" here are bitching and moaning about how the "whining idiots"
helped put Hillary Clinton in the White House by staying home, I'll at least have the pleasure of saying, "I told you so".

[Howlin]

FreeRepublic will not survive a Rudy Giuliani presidency.

You think Jim will close it down?

[BigSkyFreeper]

The President and the Republican Congress betrayed the social conservative base of the Republican Party and completely forgot about the Contract with America.

Actually the voters rejected the social conservative candidates. George Allen lost, Jim Talent lost, and Conrad Burns lost.