Posted on 03/08/2007 5:50:47 PM PST by areafiftyone
Rep. Peter King (R-NY), former Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has endorsed former Mayor Rudy Giuliani for President in 2008, according to the New York Daily News.
This is newsworthy because King co-chaired Sen. John McCain's New York campaign in 2000.
FROM THE NY DAILY NEWS:
Rudy Giuliani has wooed Rep. Peter King away from Sen. John McCain. King co-chaired McCain's New York campaign in the 2000 White House race, but the Long Island congressman says he'll now be lining up other House members for Giuliani. The ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Committee tells us he thinks Giuliani is "best qualified to fight terrorism." Giuliani and King got to know each other while serving as summer legal interns. "We'd both ride the Long Island Rail Road into Manhattan," recalls King. "Last Friday, we took Amtrak down to D.C. for a conservative conference. I said to myself, 'Forty years later, and I'm still riding the train with Rudy."
Excuse me but Oklahoma has a huge gun owner population and the Murrah Building in OKC was destroyed by two white domestic terrorists although some still believe there was also a foreign connection. If they wanted to use a single terrorist to blow up something, individual gun owners are not going to make any difference.
You are SO right!
Is this the Peter King of "Port Security" fame? Who glued him back together?
Thanks Phikapmom. Just what I thought in my post #32. Glad you confirmed about Oklahoma!
Good point. Some of the anti Rudy arguments are ludicrous on their face, and reveal a certain desperation and grabbing at straws.
I sit here shaking my head at some of the things I see posted trying to make Rudy look bad when the only person it makes look bad is the person who posted it.
Don't be silly. King represents innermost Nassau County, right next to Queens. For him not to endorse Rudy would be very very strange, past performance notwithstanding. Half of his constituents probably voted for Giuliani, before Bloomberg chased them to the suburbs.
Never mind.
Oh no...I'm scared.
....a high correlation with Coulter apologists at that.. *oops*...*smile*
LOL!!!!
Just got home a while ago. Has King been called a treasonous liberal yet? He hasn't arrived until he's been called that :-)
Oh, and the new one is: He must be an abortionist.
King should stay out of the Presidentiial campaign and worry about representing his own district for now.
You are so right! The breakout for the Survey USA for CA just came out -- this is too funny and shows the range of his support -- I love CA!:
CA Republican Primary: 11 months to the make-or-break California Republican Primary, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani appears to have Arizona Senator John McCain outflanked on multiple fronts, according to a SurveyUSA poll of 562 Likely California Republican Primary voters conducted exclusively for KABC-TV Los Angeles, KPIX-TV San Francisco and KGTV-TV San Diego. Today, it’s Giuliani 41%, McCain 23%, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich 13%, and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney 8%.
Giuliani leads McCain among Pro-Choice voters, and among Pro-Life voters, McCain runs 3rd behind Giuliani and Gingrich;
Giuliani leads among both those who support and those who oppose same-sex marriage;
Giuliani leads among those who are for stem-cell research and those against it; Giuliani leads among those who own guns and those who don’t;
Giuliani leads among those who think global warming is real and among those who think global warming is made-up; and
Giuliani leads among those who think the USA needs a military draft and among those who think the USA does not.
Giuliani leads McCain 2:1 among Conservatives, where McCain runs 3rd to Gingrich; Giuliani leads McCain by 20 points among Moderates. McCain, from the neighboring state of Arizona, does not get above 26% in any age group nor in any region of California.
http://flapsblog.com/?p=4547
LOL! It's getting close to that time! LOL!
btt
....IMHO and small sphere of influence, McCain has never been a son of Calif....and despite what some think, our conservatives are just as conservative as elsewhere.... great people here....unfortunately all you hear about is the wacky Calif politics....I know there are many crazies here, but people usually are more tolerant too...that can be good or bad.....say hi to our friend J.C. for me....he is awesome....
In the last election he could have dashed her hopes for the White House. Instead, he appeared too scared to run against her.
Hillary, with the help of the MSM, will beat him. Rudy has too much baggage. The liberals are going to vote for her while many others simply won't care enough to bother to vote since their positions on many issues are similar (his words).
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