Posted on 12/08/2006 2:36:29 PM PST by Uncledave
I don't know any 'hundred percenters' as liberal Alan Simpson calls them. I know some conservatives who have a number of bedrock issues, but none of them demand a politician agree with them 100% on all issues, only the bedrock issues.
If you really want to persuade, drop the name-calling. First you accused people of being 'Rudy haters'. Then, after being called on that, you resorted to more derogatory name-calling ('hundred percenters').
If you only want to give yourself some superficial superiority satisfaction, then by all means, keep up the name calling. But if you want to persuade, you'd be better served by dropping it.
Just a word to the wise.
"Giuliani will be a great president. I'm looking forward to it".
If Rudy will fight the freaking War on Terror and work on Federal Spending, I'll forgive an awful lot. I despise much of what he seems to stand for, but we're not likely to get a perfect, or even really good candidate.
Maybe it is...but I'd rather live in reality, than dream about the glory days.
"Are you insane? Have you been asleep...PRINCIPLED CONSERVATIVES COULD NOT EVEN WIN RE-ELECTION THIS TIME AROUND. Wake up my friends, it's a new day and if you care about your Country, you'll realize that before it's too late. And it's not too late if you don't keep waiting for someone who agrees 100% with everything you agree with. IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN".
Will you discount Elkay sinks?
R is for Rino these days it seems.
Sigh.
Barry Goldwater charged into battle on a wing and a prayer....Ronaldus maximus picked up the sword......
If Ronald Reagan could read these posts, he would wonder where our American sense of optimism had gone.
Time to gird our loins. H*ll, we have 2 years to find a candidate...a hairy, manly man with optimism and yes, courage.
Listen up...Bush hasn't been fiscally conservative has he? He's spent like a drunken sailor, hasn't he? But look who we have on the Supreme Court. If you can't see that there's always a tradeoff, than you're living in a different world than the rest of us. If you think a Rodham Presidency would be the same thing as a Guiliani presidency you're in desperate need of mental help.
Go Rudy
No Republican is dumb enough to actively campaign for gun control.
Rudy is not going to come out as a gun-grabber. It's just common-sense.
People forget what Hillary and a Democrat Congress can do in eight years.
Say hello to universal health care, French veto over American security, the Kyoto Protocol, selling out Israel, more judicial activists on the courts fighting America-- and for what? To protest two of three issues Rudy will get right in the end anyway through judicial appointments?
After all, Giuliani has been fiercely loyal to the party, which is something I can't say about McCain, or a lot of people here at FR, including those who want to Ross Perot us again.
I think that you are right, except for the part where I don't know what a "maw" is in this context.
J/K, I got the Melville quote.
BTW, I never finished reading Moby Dick. Gotta remedy that.
You mean conservatives, don't you? What are Rudy's conservative values? They seem more than clear to many of us conservatives reading this article and thread and most are not Rudy haters, just strong conservatives. ACBR! (Any Conservative But Rudy!).
Well said Bushwacker777.
Just say NO to any and ALL RINOs.
Only to good solid conservatives.
You CAN'T be a "Rebel" if your from West Virginia.
Does that include voting for George McGovern (ok, he was young, innocent, idealistic and incredibly naive in his late 20's...rolling eyes, yarite) and MARIO CUOMO?
He didn't just vote for CUOMO--he ENDORSED him!! Maybe you call that 'fiercely loyal' to the party--but I call it something much less.
"Giuliani has been fiercely loyal to the party".
When you see so-called "conservative" pushing a guy whose track record is about as liberal as you can get, you really have to wonder what the hidden agenda is here.
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