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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GREAT! I agree with you 100%! My bet is that very few of the complainers have been in the trenches because if you have been no way would you say you wouldn't vote. I have held my nose and voted for Republican candidates that were not my first choice because the thought of giving aid and comfort to the enemy (DemocRATs) is not in the playbook! :)
LOL.
It's twue! It's twue!
Ah, now you are dead wrong. i did not call anyone any names there!
Glad that you and other FReepers are trying, that includes me as well. And and don't overlook all the help he'll get from the MSM...from what I've been reading there, only democrat candidates are in this race.
I am well, thank you :-)
Your comments make no sense. Did you not read what I said about BSU people coming on our message board (Sooner football message board)? I give up! No sense trying to explain what I was talking about! Don't bother to reply.
"...from what I've been reading there, only democrat candidates are in this race."
Ah, you've noticed just what they consider "electable", have you? ;) A Democrat.
So you are an unprincipled person?
and if Rudy Guiliani is the best guy to protect us from from what I and all of the rest of you know is coming then the social stuff has to take a back seat
If all you have left is Michael Jacksonland why bother saving it.
Right on!
Light a candle or curse the darkness. The latter requires few actual resources.
Was THIS clearly about BSU?
"This is a matter of survival -- some of the attacks on Rudy are so far overboard that it is hard to believe these people are Republicans although some of them have already admitted they are not.
We have to keep fighting because we cannot afford to lose the White House in 2008!"
I also posted that reply before you posted to me that this was about some silly Sooner thing.
Ah, but don't bother to reply....
Amazing how folks are trying to stretch the definition of "conservative" these days, isn't it? IMNSHO, any one of those items you listed disqualifies a candidate from being a conservative, no matter how solid he is on the rest.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Did you click on the pic?
Agreed.
LOL!
LOL, that is top drawer. :)
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