Posted on 05/21/2007 8:56:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Columnist, journalist, commentator and author George Will is supporting his fellow baseball fan, Rudy Giuliani, for the Republican presidential nomination and saying that Mr. Giuliani's eight years as mayor of New York were "the most successful episode of conservative governance" in America in the twentieth century.
BUT, Mr. Giuliani was the candidate of New York's LIBERAL Party in each of his three mayoral races (the first a failure, the next two successful)!
AND, when running for mayor, Mr. Giuliani pledged to "rekindle the Rockefeller/Javits/Lefkowitz tradition" of the Republican Party and "produce the kind of change New York City saw with Fiorella LaGuardia and with John Lindsay."
Republicans have plenty of grounds for concern about Mr. Giuliani.
Given Mr. Giuliani's political and personal history, who should be more comfortable with his promise to appoint justices and judges like Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel A. Alito, Jr. — pro-lifers or pro-abortioners? (Hint: Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richard: "It's encouraging to see that the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president supports the right to make personal private health care decisions free from government intrusion. Giuliani's principled stand disproves the old-school belief that you have to check your convictions at the Presidential primary door.")
Mr. Giuliani supported liberal Democrat Governor Mario Cuomo for re-election against his successful conservative Republican challenger, George Pataki.
Mr. Will, in "The Political Market is Working" (RealClearPolitics.com, February 18, 2007), opined: "Regarding the Republican race, for many months commentators have said that when the Republican base learns the facts about Rudy Giuliani's personal life (an annulled first marriage, a messy divorce, then a third marriage) and views on social issues (for abortion rights, gay rights and gun control, in each case with limits), support for him will evaporate. But such commentary is becoming self-refuting."
(Excerpt) Read more at renewamerica.us ...
"Mr. Giuliani's shifting position on abortion has been the result of political calculation, not principle or enlightenment."
Will should have been a baseball writer. He is abysmal as a political commentator!
Wouldn't the above sentence be just as true?
If Ronald McDonald were mayor of New York on 9/11 the people that support Rudy would support the clown.
Yup.
Then he ran against Hitlery for the Senate and was so afraid of her that he ran away from Hitlery. He was so afraid that he would lose to her that he quit the race and let the unknown Rick Lazio take the shaft. If he gets the nomination, he will run from Hillary again and she will bitch slap him as she did before.
After all, she does wear the pants and he does wear the dress.
LOL. Ouch.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: if 9/11 had never happened, Rudy Giuliani would already have been laughed off the national political stage because he is simply too inexperienced and too ignorant to be President, never mind his totally amoral social views.
AND, with apologies to Little Richard...
‘Tooty Rudy’
Tutti Fruiti, Not Rudy!
Tutti Fruiti, Not Rudy!
Tutti Fruiti, Not Rudy - Won’t vote for a RINO, NOT NOT NOT!
He got a gal, named Judy,
Been married three times like Rudy,
Got a gal, named Judy,
Been married three times like Rudy,
He was a mayor, and she is a nurse,
For the unborn babies, it couldn’t be worse!
[refrain]
Don’t elect Rudy, don’t send him to D.C.,
Don’t elect Rudy, don’t send him to D.C.,
He stays on the left, fakes it with the right,
He’s flip-floppin’ each and every single night,
[refrain]
Nominate Rudy, and it’s the death of the G.O.P.,
Nominate Rudy, and it’s the death of the G.O.P.,
Rudy’s no conservative, that is a fact,
Rudy ought to run as a liberal Democrat,
[refrain]
New Gallup Poll:
http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=27598
First Choice for 2008 Republican Nomination
Based on Republicans/Republican leaners
May 10-13, 2007
%
Rudy Giuliani
29
John McCain
23
Fred Thompson
12
Mitt Romney
8
Newt Gingrich
6
Sam Brownback
2
Tommy Thompson
1
Mike Huckabee
1
Tom Tancredo
1
George Pataki
1
Duncan Hunter
*
Jim Gilmore
*
Chuck Hagel
*
Ron Paul
0
————————————————————end of poll
Giuliani sinking a little, but still leading, and McCain still in the 20s? Yikes.
This is even more shocking. OK, well it is Gallup, but still...
“It is interesting to note that while support for Giuliani is lower in Gallup’s new poll compared with the previous survey, there has been no decline in Republicans’ views of him personally. The percentage of Republicans viewing him favorably stands at 81% today, compared with 79% in early May.”
80% of Americans can tell you who won American Idol, but can’t tell you who the Vice President of the US is. That support for Rudy will drop drastically as the currently ill-informed learn of Rudy’s core beliefs.
I agree with your premise in general, though whether the drop will be drastic I can’t determine at this time.
Exactly!
If Rooty is “the only one who can beat Hillary,” then why did he run away from the chance to prove it in 2000 and again last year?
“Exposing the “Rudy-as-acceptable-conservative” myth”
Rudy is acceptable. Just read the platform of the Democrat party to find out who he is acceptable to.
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