Posted on 04/16/2007 11:59:05 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Will be interesting to see how she stops the Gore Green possibility. Will she offer him VP again ? Could play off the 2000 popular vote. Her trump card will be in getting a Republican Shill to run against. Kinda like a Dole Shill who fell off a stage due to a fake railing. Early nods are that McCain has been positioning himself to be the Shill or 'Fall Guy'.
If it comes down to rudie or hillary then it will be hillary. If it does come down to a race between the two of them it wouldn’t really matter who won. There is not a dimes worth of difference between the two of them. Except that hillary could probably take him in a fair fight. Rudie spells death for the Republican party and must be swept aside now.
“The Dims are terrified of Rudy. They’re desperate and don’t know how to deal with a candidate like Rudy, so they try and smear him and trick voters into hating him.”
What are you talking about? The dems love rudie and he loves them, they are cut from the same cloth. The only way rudie could win is if he quit masquerading as a Republican and ran as what he is. A liberal pos dem.
You’re right. If Democratic rule were half as bad as Republican fear-mongering makes us believe, then you’d think the Republican Party would have taken a little bit more responsibility over the bloated government budget that didn’t get any smaller with them at the helm. I actually like this split government. Congress is so gridlocked right now that it hasn’t been able to get anything done, which is a good thing.
It’s not only Democrats who are planning to put Hillary in the presidential office. She was often asked as to whether she would run for 2004. She answered quite a few times, that she would run in 2008. That should have awakened many, as to what’s going on.
I think there are distince differences in Rudy and Hillary, though not nearly as distinct as I’d like them to be. Giuliani at least has a bit of fiscal conservativism in him. If nothing else, Rudy is going to led to the right simply by being a Republican. Hillary, on the other hand, is no doubt going the opposite direction.
The way I see it, there are 3 Republicans who could defeat Hilary in this coming race:
Giuliani, Romney, and Thompson.
The latter two are favorable in my eyes. But if it comes down to Rudy, I’d take him over Hillary any day.
Two words: Vote fraud.
All she needs to do is carry every state Kerry took plus Ohio. No fraud needed. Kerry almost won against an incumbent. There will be no incumbent advantage next year and the GOP field is the most lackluster we've had since 1996. Plus, if you think the MSM was biased in 2004 just you wait.
“If it comes down to rudie or hillary then it will be hillary. If it does come down to a race between the two of them it wouldn’t really matter who won. There is not a dimes worth of difference between the two of them”
False. The Democratic Party is pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-gay rights, pro-taxes, pro-socialized medicine, pro-defeat in Iraq. The Republican Party is none of these. If you don’t think this makes a difference, then you will deserve what you get.
Rudy is ahead in many blue and purple states. Together with the mountain states and the South, he stands a good chance to win in a landslide. If he did, that would translate into a GOP Congress, with Boehner and McConnell at the helm instead of Pelosi or Reid. How is this not preferable to a Democratic victory?
No matter how much you might prefer a Hunter or a Thompson, the name of the game is victory at the polls—or else you lose everything, the legislature, Supreme Court nominees, the Dept. of Justice, the war on terror—you name it. The stakes are too high to surrender to the enemy because you don’t like the Republican nominee.
You forgot the hammer and sickle in the photograph.
So Hillary would maintain the tax cuts and continue fighting the Islamofascists?
As an ex-Dem I can easily state that you are wrong on many levels. Dems don't cut taxes, appoint conservative federal judges, or aide the military. Sometimes Republicans talk a good game but don't deliver. But overall I'm far happier with Republicans than I was with Dems.
“Giuliani at least has a bit of fiscal conservativism in him.”
A BIT of fiscal conservatism? He used Reaganomics to put NYC in the black for the first time in fifty years. He saved hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars by reorganizing the police force and transit authority and trash collection agencies. He cut taxes and levies over and over, saving billions for taxpayers. He cut NYC’s top income-tax rate by 20.6%. Local city taxes on a family of four dropped 23.7%. He cut the commercial-rent tax. He cut sales taxes, including taxes on clothing. He cut the marriage penalty tax. He cut taxes on commercial rents and on small businesses and self-employed New Yorkers. He privatized municipal assets, selling city-owned radio and television stations and divested the City from the New York Coliseum adding $345 million to erase the City’s red ink. He cut NYC’s hotel tax from 6% to 5%. Tourism increased 50% in the city per year during Rudy’s tenure. Personal income increased 50%. Unemployment in the city went form 10.3% to 5.1%.
And that was only his FISCAL policy. He also reduced crime in NYC by 64%, the murder rate alone by 67%. He fired thousands of dead wood bureaucrats and used the money saved to put more cops on the beat. He shut down porn shops throughout the downtown tourist areas and kicked them out of residential neighborhoods. He went after drug lords—something unheard of in NYC. He also went after the welfare cheats, removing illegal recipients, cutting the outlay for welfare by 20%. Over 600,000 recipients were dropped from the roles. At the same time he began a work requirement program for remaining recipients. He ended the set-aside program for minority contractors, refused to meet with Al Sharpton, and otherwise refused to be cowed by racial politics. He refused to lower job requirements for minorities and women. He pushed to reform the city’s schools and supported school vouchers—another view that went against the liberal grain. Ditto his fight against using public money for anti-religious art displays. And on and on it goes.
In all of this he was fought by the liberal media, beginning with the NYTimes, every step of the way. But he fought back and won, turning around a dying city with a population bigger than most states. Nor was he just successful as mayor. He was famous as a U.S. Attorney in the Reagan administration long before he became mayor, amassing more than 4,000 convictions, with only 25 reversals. He was constantly on the evening news for spectacular achievments: he broke the back of NY’s organized crime, for instance, bringing the five family heads of NY’s notorious Mob to trial and sending them away for long prison terms—at great risk to his own life. He went after Wall Street white collar criminals like insider trader Ivan Boesky and junk bond dealer Michael Milkin. And he destroyed NY’s notorious political machine, sending some of its most corrupt politicians to prison. He also prosecuted terrorists and illegal immigrants.
All this was before his coolheaded leadership on 9/11 won the admiration of most Americans.
That she already has.
If the Republicans nominate Rudy, thaat will go up to about 95%.
If a GOP guy wins and he has in his possession 900+ FBI files, do you think the FBI will be able to do it’s job? Ya damn right!
I wish I could have your confidence. The Clintons lust for power knows no bounds. People were saying the same thing before she was elected Senator. Many were saying "no way." Well, it happened. With enough vote fraud (it will be unprecedented), the MSM making her out to be the savior of the world, the hateful American left, the MSM working 24/7 to viciously destroy any Rep candidate and an ignorant electorate -- I would have to agree with Rush. I am very, very worried about her winning.
Plus, if you think the MSM was biased in 2004 just you wait.
The MSM knows that they have been outed as liberal dems so they blatantly show their hate for anything conservative now. I’m not sure how to fight this because they have the sound bite thing down to a science and the sheeple don’t care enough to find out the truth on any matter.
...but he is Rush, that's the problem.
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