Rudy: I do not look to see what the catechism of Conservatism says about how to solve a problem

www.rudysreallyliberal.com ^ | August 1, 1989

[TitansAFC]

What kind of Republican? Is [Giuliani], for instance, a Reagan Republican? [Giuliani] pauses before answering: “I’m a Republican.”

Village Voice, January 24, 1989

Mayoral hopeful Rudolph Giuliani said yesterday that if he wins the GOP primary, as expected, he will rename his Republican line on the November ballot after the Independent Fusion Party founded by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

The state’s leading elected Republican, Sen. Alfonse D’Amato, denounced the decision as “ambition and arrogance at its worst. Can you imagine that the party that was good enough for Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and George Bush isn’t good enough for Rudolph Giuliani?”

New York Daily News, July 12, 1989

Mr. Giuliani solicited the Liberal Party nomination, he actually says, partly because many of his friends and relatives would have been too embarrassed to vote for a Republican. Mr. Giuliani campaigned for Bobby Kennedy and says he voted for George McGovern. His campaign staff includes at least one former Mike Dukakis aide. He told a TV interviewer, “I do not look to see what the catechism of conservatism says about how to solve a problem.”

Editorial The Wall Street Journal, August 1, 1989 (Emphasis Added)

Giuliani, who favors Massachusetts Gov. William Weld – like Giuliani, a former prosecutor – as the 1996 GOP presidential nominee, countered that conservatives fear losing control of the Republican Party after Democrat Bill Clinton’s 1992 victory.

“Their fear of me is that I’m going to be a beachhead for the establishment of a more progressive form of Republicanism,” said Giuliani.

New York Newsday, October 8, 1993 (Emphasis Added)

[TitansAFC]

---“Their fear of me is that I’m going to be a beachhead for the establishment of a more progressive form of Republicanism,” said Giuliani."---

[wireman]

Yawn.

[RightWhale]

1986? Different world.

[veronica]

You need to go back to when he was in high school and see what he said then...

[ex-snook]

We know that Giuli. No one has accused you of being an American conservative.

[dforest]

Frightening thought.

[jammer]

That's a good quote, but he is in error. I don't have fear of him. Just contempt.

[Old Professer]

Same Rudy.

[TAdams8591]

Ping!

[streetpreacher]

Giuliani, who favors Massachusetts Gov. William Weld – like Giuliani, a former prosecutor – as the 1996 GOP presidential nominee

So that's the kind of CiC Giuliani will be...

[onyx]

LOL!

[BallyBill]

In kindergarten he said "Ew, girls have cooties". He must be gay.

[darkangel82]

LOL. Weld makes Rudy and Romney look conservative by comparison.

[Constantine XI Palaeologus]

No he doesn't. The comments made by Guiliani back in '89 seem pretty much consistent with what he'd say today. I've seen no evidence that would suggest that he's changed his viewpoints espoused less than 20 years ago.

[truth_seeker]

Why don't you publish what he has said recently? Your objection to him will carry more weight.

Going back to 1989 and 1995 makes you look like you can develop nothing stronger. Position of weakness.

[Texas_Jarhead]

Interesting.

[muleskinner]

Titan is on a roll today. I think he/she has posted every Rudy position paper/ policy statement/ utterance published by the media 10 years ago.

[TitansAFC]

---"Why don't you publish what he has said recently? Your objection to him will carry more weight."---

He hasn't been Mayor in a while, either, but that doesn't stop people.

Unless he clearly expresses a flip-flop on the issues on which he is clearly on record, we must assume that he holds the same positions.

[EternalVigilance]

“Their fear of me is that I’m going to be a beachhead for the establishment of a more progressive form of Republicanism,” said Giuliani.

Ping...

[TitansAFC]

Tell me, muleskinner, what Conservative Rudy gems do you have that aren't from six years ago or more?

He been Mayor of another city since then?