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Christoper Miles: Why I'm Voting for Rudy Guiliani
Tampa Bay Online ^ | 4/6/07 | Chris Miles

Posted on 04/07/2007 2:30:04 PM PDT by meg88

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To: zook; Howlin; Peach; onyx

And by the way. A family member of mine who signed up on FR last month, just got banned or suspended tonight after trying to post a couple of pro-Giuliani messages on this thread. Is this what FR has become?
I guess I’ll be next.


161 posted on 04/07/2007 8:33:49 PM PDT by zook
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To: stillonaroll

But you know I’m right about Ronald Reagan.


162 posted on 04/07/2007 8:34:33 PM PDT by zook
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To: zook
No, you just think it's issue one.

"Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! -- All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." - Abraham Lincoln

163 posted on 04/07/2007 8:34:44 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

No, it is issue one.

If we surrender on the war on terror, America is gone. We may already be on our way.

It’s come to my attention tonight that some new Freepers who happen to support Rudy Giuliani are being suspended or banned. One tried to post on this very thread tonight and was immediately suspended. I didn’t think this was the way “conservatives” were supposed to operate, by silencing other conservatives with whom they disagree.


164 posted on 04/07/2007 8:39:32 PM PDT by zook
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To: zook
A family member of mine who signed up on FR last month, just got banned or suspended tonight after trying to post a couple of pro-Giuliani messages on this thread.

That's strange. I scrolled back looking for a single zotted post on this thread and couldn't find one.

Can you tell us the numbers of the zotted posts?

165 posted on 04/07/2007 8:40:37 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: zook
But you know I’m right about Ronald Reagan.

No I don't. It is easy for me to think that the Gipper would refrain from campaigning in the general if Rudy were the nominee.

166 posted on 04/07/2007 8:43:18 PM PDT by stillonaroll (Rudy: pro-abortion, pro-gay, anti-gun)
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To: dmw

Why would conservatives support Rudy?

Simple. Sometimes it makes sense to vote for a liberal like JFK or Truman to keep a McGovern, a Kerry, or a Dean out of power. When you’re being threatened by madmen who want to suicide themselves with nuclear bombs for religious reasons, it makes absolute sense.

If the Rudy-bashers had a more conservative candidate they supported that could defeat Hillary, then sign me up.

Duncan Hunter is liberal on economics, and generally is an unpleasant person. Fred Thompson doesn’t seem that serious about the entire campaigning business. McCain, well, is McCain, and Romney flipflops and panders.

If I had to switch support from Giuliani at this point, I’d pick Romney. I’m not totally convinced Romney can win. However, he can raise the money, has a large fortune of his own, which may help him overcome his deficits in the polls to the Dems. It is still risky — the polls show Obama and Clinton defeating Romney easily.

As a result, given the lack of serious argument above, I’m tentatively staying with Giuliani. If something develops— if Thompson jumps in and shows appeal with independents, or if Romney can persuade people to join his side—then maybe I’ll consider switching.

Spam away with the dorky images all you want. Let me know when you guys have a rational argument.


167 posted on 04/07/2007 8:45:08 PM PDT by JHBowden (Give peace a chance! Kill terrorists!)
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To: zook
No, it is issue one. If we surrender on the war on terror, America is gone. We may already be on our way.

See, that's what people like you can't understand, professor.

America's internal moral strength, and her standing with the Lord God Almighty, is the only protection she has against external threats.

"Unless the LORD builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the LORD guards the city,
The watchman stays awake in vain."

168 posted on 04/07/2007 8:45:57 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

Lord God almighty will not prevent your wife or daughter from being forced to wear a burka.

Lord God almighty will not lift a finger to stop those who would oppress us, not if we don’t.

You sound like the guy who was drowning and refused all help, saying “God’s gonna rescue me!” He drowned.


169 posted on 04/07/2007 8:48:42 PM PDT by zook
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To: EternalVigilance

I’m certain your internal moral strength has the Ayatollahs shaking in their turbans. /s

My faith is in Los Angeles class submarines, the F-22, et cetera.


170 posted on 04/07/2007 8:50:40 PM PDT by JHBowden (Give peace a chance! Kill terrorists!)
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To: zook

BS.

It’s just that all the effort you can possibly expend won’t do you any good if God withdraws His protective Hand.


171 posted on 04/07/2007 8:50:52 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: JHBowden
My faith is in Los Angeles class submarines, the F-22, et cetera.

Now we're getting down to it.

172 posted on 04/07/2007 8:51:33 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

You seem to think you can make terrorists flee in battle with prayer.

Why can you, let us say, pray and make the terrorists stop killing our servicemen in Iraq? I know you can do it, EternalVigilance.


173 posted on 04/07/2007 8:54:07 PM PDT by JHBowden (Give peace a chance! Kill terrorists!)
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To: EternalVigilance

I love God, but I think He wants us to live in the real world.


174 posted on 04/07/2007 8:54:55 PM PDT by zook
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To: JHBowden
You seem to think you can make terrorists flee in battle with prayer.

Yeah. And I think I'm in pretty good company in that belief.


175 posted on 04/07/2007 9:01:15 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: zook
Nor has Rudy “embraced the Clinton regime”

Really?

"Most of [President] Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine."
--Rudolph Giuliani, New York Post, Jun 8, 1999 (restating RWG quote from 1996 )
"I don't think tonight's result is tragic, I guess because I'm not that partisan a person ... I think President Clinton is a good man, he's a very decent man, and the country has run pretty well."
--Rudolph Giuliani, commenting on Bob Dole's loss in the 1996 presidential election.
New York Times, Nov 7, 1996

176 posted on 04/07/2007 9:02:20 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: calcowgirl

I can hear Bush saying the very same thing about Clinton. It’s political rhetoric.


177 posted on 04/07/2007 9:03:37 PM PDT by zook
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To: EternalVigilance

EternalVigilance—

Note that the people praying above are military personnel. Prayer alone, like diplomacy, cannot win a military engagement. We send people into battle with guns, not Bibles.

I can’t tell who is more loony these days— the moonbats, or the wingnuts.


178 posted on 04/07/2007 9:06:00 PM PDT by JHBowden (Give peace a chance! Kill terrorists!)
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“If I had to switch support from Giuliani at this point, I’d pick Romney. I’m not totally convinced Romney can win.”

I agree with you.

Cept I don’t thik it will be Hillary. It’s gonna be Gore.
Hillary and Obama are unelectable. She is too unlikable and he has no experience.

Gore will step in and be formidable he would bridge the moonbat and rank and file dims. I just heard on talk radio he’s favored in Vegas....I have no links to verify. I’m not sure Gulliani or Thompson can beat Gore.

Romney could match up well against him.

179 posted on 04/07/2007 9:09:13 PM PDT by Blackirish
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To: JHBowden

Again, you show yourself incapable of seeing what the founders of this country called “self-evident.” If you could, you’d know that enemies of life and liberty like Giuliani aren’t fit for any office, much less the highest office in the land.


180 posted on 04/07/2007 9:16:15 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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