[cmsgop]

Oh Please.........

[Mulder]

He may as well pick Hitlery for VP.

She's about as "conservative" as Guiliani.

[mathluv]

Rudy is fine for NY, but waaaaaay too liberal on social issues.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Ah ha, I just posted this on another thread and predicted it as a Oct suprise, I guess I should have said September. This is the Dem's worst nightmare! Kiss your butt good-bye Hillary 08!

[Hand em their arse]

Give me a break, would never happen. Guiliani is WAY too NY for the rest of the country. I love him because I'm from NJ and think nobody is better than him but this would never happen!

[cynicom]

The author might be shocked to find out that the sun does not rise and set in New York City.

[MegaSilver]

He’s the Republican no Democrat could say anything negative about.

And that became a good thing WHEN?

[jocon307]

"He saved New York City. Twice."

It is true, it is 100% true. And the first time, he did it single-handedly. I grew up in Manahttan, and have lived in the NY Metro area for nearly every single day of my life. NYC was truly teetering on the edge of the abyss. Giuliani pulled it back, throught the force of sheer will, it seemed to me. He was called a racist, a Nazi, every slur in the liberal book, but he never even blinked.

I disagree with him on many issues, but to me he'll always be a hero because he saved my beloved city. As the man says, not once, but twice.

I would vote for him for anything. There is no question that Cheney will NOT run for president. Putting Rudy on the ticket now, and thereby making him the presumptive candidate in 2008 is OK by me. However, he is very bad on the pro-life, etc. issues, and that may alienate the base. Plus, I know NY Dems who love Giuliani, but they wouldn't vote for him.

[bobo1]

I prefer Cheney.

Blessings, Bobo

[billorites]

The list of inaccuracies is astounding.

Bill Frist is not a former doctor. Like he was defrocked?

Cheney has a stent in a coronary artery, not a pacemaker.

The list goes on...

[Leroy S. Mort]

Neuharth said the ideal time for the announcement would be at the Republican convention in September, commemorating 9/11 at Ground Zero.

I hope they have sense enough to insert a bathroom break between this and when they roll Osama Bin Laden down the aisle of the Convention on a gurney. That'll serve NBC right for not covering the convention gavel to gavel. Neuharth is a loon.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Amazing to get the inside scoop on U.S. politics from Scotland, is it not?

P.J. O'Rourke on the Scots:

SCOTS

Racial Characteristics:

Sour, stingy, depressing beggars who parade around in schoolgirl skirts with nothing on underneath. Their fumbled attempt at speaking the English language has been a source of amusement for five centuries, and their idiot music has been dreaded by those not blessed with deafness for at least as long. The latter is produced on a device resembling five flutes that have grown a piss bladder. Formerly, the Scots painted themselves blue and ranged far and wide over the British Isles, but good fortune prevailed and they were conquered by their betters. What passes for an alcoholic beverage in the dreary province to which the Scots have been driven has enjoyed a short vogue among fairies and advertising types, but this appears to be giving way to cocaine.

Good Points:

Attractive plaids.

Proper Forms of Address:

Scotty, Jock, legs, plaid ass.

An Anecdote Illustrating Something of the Scots Character:

In recent years, the small Scottish Nationalist movement has become so desperate that it's been kidnapping money and ransoming it for people.

[kennedy]

When pigs fly out of my butt.

If Giuliani runs against Hillary for NY Senator, I'll be all for it. Hell, I'll even contribute to his campaign, but he is waaay too liberal for Bush to ever pick as VP. Bush knows that he will win the election by motivating his base, not by angering his base trying to pick up a few liberal voters.

[Salman]

Julie Annie? Gimme a break. Here's the real dream running mate:

[PLK]

The real dream ticket is Bush-Rice - surely the strategists MUST be considering this at some level!

I want to be saying "President Rice" in 2008. First woman, first black, and an evil Republican to-boot. It's too delicious .....

[nickcarraway]

Mr. Giuliani did a great job as mayor of New York, but i don't think he's right for president or vice president. It's interesting that this article discounts Mr. Cheney because of health, but in 2000, Giuliani pulled out of a Senate race because of health, but Cheney was running for VP.

[Alberta's Child]

Gosh, what a lot of crap this is.

Giuliani would be a terrible addition to the Bush ticket, as anyone who is familiar with his pre-9/11 performance as mayor of New York would tell you. Yes, he was a very effective mayor -- but only because he was leading a city that was totally comfortable with the idea of living in a Marxist police state.

Hell -- if Giuliani were added to the Bush ticket, I would end up voting for a third party candidate in November.

[dawn53]

Just MHO, but I believe there is a "plot" (tin foil hat time) to try to get Bush to dump Cheney.

People reason Cheney has baggage, i.e. Halliburton, gay daughter, health issues, etc., but if Bush were to drop Cheney it would be admitting, in a sense, that all the negative talk about Cheney, and Bush indirectly, were true.

I think Bush/Cheney will be the ticket. As far as the 2008 election, if the issue is to have an incumbent VP run, then midway through the 2004 term, Cheney could resign for health reasons and a replacement could be named.

Personally, I think Cheney is an asset!

[pawdoggie]

This is a Left-Wing trap. Sure, Rudy Giuliani would be a very attractive candidate: he would draw in a lot of "moderates", and he could even help GWB squeak out a victory in New York. Granted, that's a long shot at best, but he could force the Democrats to spend so much more time and money defending New York that they will be unable to go after any of the "Red" states the President won in 2000 (and, in the process, offset the popular vote differential by which the Democrats claimed to have "won" in 2000).

The downside, the "trap" part, is that by "dumping" Dick Cheney the President will be tacitly agreeing with the Vice President's critics who have branded him a "corporate crook" and the "evil genius" behind the "failed and unnecessary" war in Iraq. Plus the DNC, with the assistance of the Moby's of the world, would remind Republicans and conservatives of Mr. Giuliani's presumed "social liberal" tendencies. Many on the Right could be inclined to stay home. In the end, win or lose, the Left would get at least part of what they want by "nailing" the evil Cheney. Besides, anyone who saw Dick Cheney systematically demolish Joe Lieberman in their debate will know that he is someone who could make a John Edwards or Hillary look like the rank amateurs they are (as opposed to a Rudy, who would probably end up agreeing with a "progressive" Democrat, as often as not).

[mrsmith]

Why do the Liberals fear Cheney so? Why are they so desperate that he be replaced?

Get your minds right, conservatives!