Posted on 04/16/2007 11:59:05 PM PDT by FairOpinion
You do a terrific synopsis of Rudy’s achievements and I can’t help but think what a fantastic senator from NY or NJ he would be.
Rush also wants you “tuning” in for updates. Rush said it yesterday, “This is a business FIRST”.
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I lived through carter. DO NOT try to sell dims as not bad. They are the party of satan and you act as their agent when you downplay their evil!
LLS
With that face, she reminds me more of that Darth whoever.
Not to diminish your understanding of your friends, but I predict when it's all said and done and Hillary is the nominee, they will. Lock-step voting is part of the liberal conditioning and has been for decades.
Damn straight! She’s got enough money to buy the election through fraud. Are we motivated yet?
Damn straight! She’s got enough money to buy the election through fraud. Are we motivated yet?
No, "we" are not; some of "us" here at this web site are intent of handing the entire government over to this woman.
“You do a terrific synopsis of Rudy’s achievements and I can’t help but think what a fantastic senator from NY or NJ he would be.”
I disagree. It would be a waste of his talent. Right now Rudy knows where the levers of power are and how to use them to strike fear in the opposition. He has a background at Justice and executive experience without par. —And he’s a streetfighter—not very useful in the Senate, but tremendously useful for a Republican president under constant assault from the left. As president he would fight fire with fire—which, believe me, has been long overdue. Do you think for a moment that as president he would hesitate to haul the publishers and editors of the NYT into Court under the Espionage Act for publishing classified information that gives aid and comfort to the enemy? I don’t think so. Nor would he tolerate the lies and disinformation spread by political opponents through their buddies in the media without making them pay a heavy price. We need a streetfighter as our president for a change.
“No way in hell Rush is right here. There isn’t a single soul I know who likes Hillary...nevermind wants her for President.”
You and your friends are living in la-la land. Right now the Democrats have registered 15% more voters for ‘08 than Republicans. They have more money. They have better organization. They have the media. They have the monolithic black vote and most of the Hispanic vote. They have red states trending leftward like OH and CO and VA. They have Bush fatigue putting wind in their sails. What has the GOP got? It’s got Rudy—and that’s it.
Please, you can’t really be this blind! Rudy is not my first choice but in a contest between Rudy and the hildabeast, Rudy gets my vote and he should get yours too. Just think of the retiring Supreme Court nominees. president hillary is a nightmare that MUST be avoided.
Last I heard, Rudy SUPPORTED the Fairness Doctrine. has he made any comments on it during this campaign. I know he was asked about it in South Carolina, but either didn’t hear the question or chose not to answer.
Anyone know?
If Gore runs, how will they spin it that he is an insane freak?
They can not let Hillary down.
Gee, well as a member of two well-known Conservative organizations known for effective GOTV efforts and registering voters, let me tell you why:
It’s because the GOP grassroots hate the front-runners, Rudy and McCain. Everyone I know is basically protesting right now - we haven’t even gotten the folks who were sworn-in to register voters in 2004 and 2006 to say they’d be willing to help out again. Rudy’s number one criticism/complaint right now is the total absence of a ground game, and that he’s almost void of unpaid volunteers. He has the fewest financial supporters of all major candidates running, and that is no accident. The gun groups and SoCons, who make up the MAJORITY of the GOTV efforts, are unimpressed. Same goes for McCain, who is seen as slightly less Liberal but totally unreliable by the folks I talk to regularly.
If you think Rudy can win, you’d better be certain he can win the Presidency without a ground game, because it will be weak at best. Money only goes so far, and volunteers go much, much further. If the numbers are close by Election Day, which I guarantee they will be, he’s going to lose badly. The Democrats, as you said, will be united and organized and swimming in volunteers from their grassroots organizations. The GOP will be left asking CEOs to go door-to-door. Good luck with that.
And folks like myself who’ve gone to battle for the GOP will be going to battle for someone else in 2008 if Rudy wins the nod. It won’t be just the Buchananite-types looking elsewhere this time around, I guarantee that.
You want to catch-up registering new voters? How about not nominating a guy who makes much of the grassroots want the GOP to lose in 2008, and a whole lot of them apathetic. Would you go out and work your butt off to register new voters for Barrack Obama? No. And there are a lot of folks right now - AND I CAN TELL YOU FIRST HAND - who aren’t going to be working their butts off for Rudy Giuliani.
The press and the polls giveth, and the press and the polls taketh away. Rudy is counting on his positive press and poll numbers to carry the day exclusively. It won’t happen. And when he drops, the folks who are usually there to pick-up the campaign for the GOP won’t be there this time. I swear to God I won’t, for one.
“Rudy’s number one criticism/complaint right now is the total absence of a ground game, and that he’s almost void of unpaid volunteers. He has the fewest financial supporters of all major candidates running, and that is no accident. The gun groups and SoCons, who make up the MAJORITY of the GOTV efforts, are unimpressed. Same goes for McCain, who is seen as slightly less Liberal but totally unreliable by the folks I talk to regularly.”
I have a totally different view. I believe many of you don’t yet realize that this is not 2004 and that we need to start thinking outside the box. The only way a Republican candidate can win in the next election would be to capture blue or purple territory—and that means attracting crossover voters. Just getting out the traditional Republican vote won’t do it. This is because whether you like it or not the country is trending left. Formerly red states like OH and CO and VA are turning purple. Much of this is beyond our control. This is because the changes are the result of recent migration patterns. My own state, PA, has grown increasingly liberal due to the steady influx of New Yorkers and Jerseyites searching for less expensive housing. They sell their split-levels for half a million and buy the exact same house a few miles away in PA for half that price, pocketing the difference. You can organize all you want and this won’t change this reality in 2008.
There is another factor you are missing—the Italian-American vote which is heavily pro-Rudy and which is located in many key states like NJ, PA, CT, OH, FL, MI and CA. That’s the real reason Rudy is ahead in most of these states—and it has nothing to do with organization, it has everything to do with the mother’s milk of politics—ethnic loyalty. This is not going to change. NJ is not going to vote for Hillary if Rudy’s on the ballot—not in a state so heavily populated with Italian-Americans. A Thompson or a Romney couldn’t possibly attract this huge voting bloc the way Rudy can. The same is true of battleground states like FL and PA, both with very large Italian populations. Not only this, but this vote alone represents 10% of the entire electorate—comparable to the black vote—and is concentrated primarily in blue and purple states. And while it’s not a monolithic vote by any means, it’s still a very very significant factor. Added to this would be Rudy’s overall appeal to voters in general because of his truly outstanding leadership qualities which are best known on the east coast and which appeal to many Independents and a significant number of Democrats.
It just dawned on me that Rudy (who is not my favorite) with his streetfighter attitude is the BEST candidate to fight the vote fraud that would elect Hitlery. No wonder the dims fear him above all. I’ll take a RINO over Stalin-in-a-pantsuit any day. BTW, Rudy came to my West Point law class in 1972 and started his speech with, “Ahmma gahnna talk to youse guysse about organizedahcrime”.
Your Lord and Savior RINO Rudy isn’t even ahead of Hillary in the latest polls and was six-points behind John Edwards. And, that’s before much of the prospective Republican voters have learned how liberal he is. He is a loser that will fracture the Republican party.
Liberal Republicans like Rell and RINO Rudy only favor tax cuts if it is politically expedient.
RINO Rudy opposed tax cuts when he found it politically advantageous and refused to take a pledge not to raise taxes:
Taxes
---"Over the objections of a furious Mayor Giuliani and city legislators from both parties, the New York state legislature has abolished the New York City commuter tax. The action, done to apparently affect a local legislative race in suburban Rockland County, could cost New York City $360 million. NPR's Margot Adler reports."--- NPR Report
---"Let's face it: Rudy Giuliani argued for the reinstatement of the tax,..."--- NY Sun report
[Giuliani] says ruling out a tax increase is "political pandering." Newsday, August 31, 1989
"When I ran for Mayor both times, I was asked very, very often to do the following:
Pledge that you will never raise taxes. I refused to do that. Pledge that you will lower taxes. I refused to do that." -- Rudy Giuliani, New York Times, October 25, 1994
Mr. Giuliani criticized Mr. Pataki’s proposal to cut taxes as “a shell game” that would hurt everyone in the state… -- New York Times, October 30, 1994
SO IS GIULIANI! RINO Rudy is also pro-illegal immigration, pro man-made global warming, anti-school choice, favored McCain-Feingold and spent New York into the second largest deficit in the nation (other than the national debt).
What is the POINT OF WINNING if conservatives have to become like liberals to win? That's the question that doesn't see to penetrate through the thick skulls of RINO Rudy's apologists.
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