Posted on 01/24/2007 5:53:08 PM PST by Sunsong
Not since Teddy Roosevelt took on Tammany Hall a century ago has a New York politician closely linked to urban reform looked like presidential timber. But today ex–New York mayor Rudy Giuliani sits at or near the top of virtually every poll of potential 2008 presidential candidates. Already, Giuliani’s popularity has set off a “stop Rudy” movement among cultural conservatives, who object to his three marriages and his support for abortion rights, gay unions, and curbs on gun ownership. Some social conservatives even dismiss his achievement in reviving New York before 9/11. An August story on the website Right Wing News, for instance, claims that Giuliani governed Gotham from “left of center.” Similarly, conservatives have been feeding the press a misleading collection of quotations by and about Giuliani, on tax policy and school choice issues, assembled to make him look like a liberal.
But in a GOP presidential field in which cultural and religious conservatives may find something to object to in every candidate who could really get nominated (and, more important, elected), Giuliani may be the most conservative candidate on a wide range of issues. Far from being a liberal, he ran New York with a conservative’s priorities: government exists above all to keep people safe in their homes and in the streets, he said, not to redistribute income, run a welfare state, or perform social engineering. The private economy, not government, creates opportunity, he argued; government should just deliver basic services well and then get out of the private sector’s way. He denied that cities and their citizens were victims of vast forces outside their control, and he urged New Yorkers to take personal responsibility for their lives....
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I will say that he becomes a lot more tolerable if we can get a conservative house and senate.
With these keywords: 2008; BARFALERT; ELECTION; GIULIANI; GUNGRABBER; RUDY, I take it your don't like Rudy.
Are you a baaasher?
So it's someone else's fault that Giuliani has made misleading quotations?
If and only if ther is a conservative house and senate
I will say that he becomes a lot more tolerable if we can get a conservative house and senate.
We haven't had a conservative senate in my lifetime.
Those are MISLEADING misnomers. LOL.
He's our first pro gay marriage, pro abortion, pro gun control, pro illegal immigration conservative.
It's amazing how people are trying to sell us on this guy.
Good point. A landslide victory means we take back the House and Senate. The overconfident Democrats are screaming to get Mondaled this election.
I think a conservative House is a realistic and admirable goal. The Senate? I am more pessimistic. But, at least a majority GOP Senate is half-way bearable :-)
Rudy is not a conservative. We need one. Badly. And a fighting conservative at that -- not another "compasionate conservative"...which equates to a left-leaning moderate.
No thanks.
With the wind at the GOP's back, I expect them to lose a little ground in the Senate in 2008, and win back maybe 6-8 House seats they lost in 2006. Winning back control of Congress isn't on the radar, barring some dramatic change in the status quo (which could happen).
At this rate the GOP's best chance at regaining the House is in 2014, in the middle of the 2nd term of a democrat president.
Keywords can be entered by anyone, not just the threadmeister.
Giuliani has administrative experience and appears to be able to get things done. He did a good job in NYC. Perhaps he can do a good job in the White House.
Did you read the article?
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Conservatives are screwed in 2008.
Anybody know of a true conservative who can actually win the Presidency?
Milton Berle?
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