Courtesy of Victoria Delsoul
Posted on 03/18/2007 11:17:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Did you see that riot? First time in years I actually found myself watching the local news and it was strictly by accident.
Nothing to do with Rudy, but the one thing I took away from watching the video is these kids have no training in martial arts or hand to hand combat. They are rank amateurs who just throw haymakers.
Why should that be any surprise? Your ilk have completely infested it. It's the Schwarzeneggarization of the Republican Party.
Courtesy of Victoria Delsoul
According to The Boston Herald, on Giuliani’s watch, crime went down 56 percent, homicides 66 percent, and the number of persons on welfare 58 percent.
hp, you have to 'splain this one. Yes they are the same on some social issues BUT...and it's a big BUT;
Hillary is a closet Socialist who is on tape accidentally proclaiming her true agenda with the "I want to take those profits..." rant against the oil companies.
Rudy preaches free market, supply side Friedman economic theory.
Hillary wants to surrender to al Qaeda because that is the popular opinion that will win her votes and allow her to obtain power for its own sake. (if 95% of the people were in favor of the war, we know she would be too), whereas Rudy would probably beat the insane islamofascists over the head with a crowbar himself.
Yes, they are both pro-killing a helpless infant and that bothers me. But it's not fair to say they are identical.
I love W, but this is true.
Rudy is on record that he will appoint judges like Scalia and Alito, and TEd Olson is validating that, while we all know what kind of judges Hillary will appoint.
It wasn't because of Rudy it probably had more to do with that idiot before him. He is the one that added the extra policemen.
Of course they did kill a few innocent folks on Rudy's watch.
The money quote. He is right that Giuliani is a fighter, and he's right that a fighter is of greater value than someone with the right opinions who won't fight.
On the war, I trust Giuliani to be a fighter. On social issues, I haven't seen anything to make me think Giuliani will fight for the moral underpinnings of civilization if it means going up against Roe v Wade, for example. The writer's analysis is sharp and clear but probably wishful thinking.
I am not one of the ones who will write Giuliani off without hearing him out, as I have said the war is my bottom line and on the war I trust Giuliani to fight.
But on every other issue I consider him to be a Lieberman Republican, and if he's president we'll have 4 or 8 years of rear-guard fighting on every social issue we care about. I do not trust him to put constitutionalists on the Supreme Court, and thats almost as important as the war if we are to survive as a constitutional republic.
At this stage there are a couple of other people I believe will also fight, and who agree with me on most social issues as far as I can tell; I am supporting Hunter, and when Gingrich runs his mouth, I like what I hear. I haven't forgotten how he screwed up during impeachment, but I also haven't forgotten the shellacking he gave Clinton when he enacted his "Contract for America" over Clinton's furious resistance. Clinton was reduced to taking credit for Gingrich's project.
Here's where social conservatives can get tripped up. If Rudy is truly committed to appointing strict consructionist it doesn't matter if he's not a social conservative because in the long run those unelected judges can yield enormous dividends.
Most conservatives are Socialist also.. since (SSA)Social Security is PURE SOCIALISM.. not kind of like socialism but abject PURE socialism.. and conservatives are FOR Social Security..
Don't worry he's just pandering.
The Bush administration’s first attorney general, John Ashcroft, asked the Justice Department’s top legal minds to study whether the Second Amendment protected an individual right. DOJ’s office of legal counsel reviewed the Second Amendment’s text, as well as its historical origins as far back as 17th century England, and concluded that: “the Second Amendment secures a personal right of individuals to keep and bear arms, not a collective right that may only be invoked by a State or a quasi-collective right restricted to those persons who serve in organized militia units.”
They filed this memorandum with the USSC as the government opinion on the meaning of the second amendment. And we all know what recently happened in the DC Federal courts. Victory!
The Bottom Line | The message for gun owners is obvious--elections matter. They matter from the bottom of the government to the top, from the smallest issue affecting gun owners to the largest. In the critical elections of 2008, pro-Second Amendment candidates can only win if gun owners rally in support of those candidates who support our rights.
Is this a battle you are ready to concede?
Do you think Rudy will declare support for this memorandum? And will continue it on as the official policy of the Federal government?
My point is that I expect Republicans will show more backbone against a democrat gun grabber then they would one of their own party. If Rudy is the nominee then constitutional conservatives face a lose, lose situation. It couldn't come at a worse time either.
Only an idiot could buy this crap.
"Presidents, going back to the beginning of the republic, generally appoint people on the Supreme Court that they believe agree with them." - Rudy Giuliani
"Most of Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine." - Rudy Giuliani
"COLMES: Now, Roe vs. Wade -- You are pro-choice. How important is it to you as a pro-choice Republican to have a pro-choice on the court as someone...
GIULIANI: That is not the critical factor. And what's important to me is to have a very intelligent, very honest, very good lawyer on the court. And he fits that category, in the same way Justice Ginsburg fit that category.
I mean, she was — she maybe came at it from a very different political background, very qualified lawyer, very smart person."
Lieberman is very liberal on every issue but the war.
Rudy is a fiscal conservative and a REAL law and order guy.
For social conservative issues, the only thing the president can impact is the judges and Rudy said he would appoint judges like Scalia and Alito and Ted Olson vouches for him. That should be good enough for everyone.
Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, were/are staunch pro lifers and the only thing they were able to do is to appoint the right kind of judges, and even they didn't get each one right. So the fact that they were prolife didn't really have any more impact, than what Rudy will do in appointing judges who focus on the law, instead of activism.
Here! Here! Let the vigorous copy/pasting of talking points begin!!
"GIULIANI: That is not the critical factor"
It's amazing to me, the lack of logic. We couldn't get decent judges even out of them, but somehow, we're going to do better by selecting a nominee whose policies are, by his own admission, very similar to the Clintons. *barf*
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