Posted on 10/17/2007 12:52:07 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday won the endorsement of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, despite their differences on abortion rights.
Perry, an abortion opponent, said his biggest concern had been Giuliani's support for abortion rights but that he was satisfied Giuliani would appoint judges who view the issue conservatively.
"The one (issue) that I wanted to hear him give me an answer and look me right in my eyes was that issue of who can I expect, what type of individual can I expect on the Supreme Court," Perry said at a news conference with Giuliani.
"He clearly said ... you can look for people like Scalia and Roberts and Alito. Let me tell you, I can live with that," Perry said, referring to conservative Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts.
Perry said when he buys a pickup truck, he doesn't rule it out simply because it has one option he doesn't like. He said the war on terrorism is the campaign's overriding issue and that Giuliani is best-equipped to lead a country at war.
Giuliani, who is addressing social conservative voters this weekend in Washington, said he wants conservatives to focus on areas where he agrees with them.
"I'm not going to get every vote," he said. "The idea is going to be that there's enough we agree about and enough we're facing — foreign threats and domestic problems — that it may just be if they think about it, that I'm the best candidate."
"What I really want is a relationship in which we respect each other, even if we disagree," Giuliani said.
The endorsement rankled a Giuliani rival, Republican Fred Thompson. Thompson's campaign released a statement from Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson.
"Texans supporting the mayor of New York City? Get a rope," Patterson said. "Fred is the real deal. "He's the only conservative with a chance in 2008, and he's gonna win Texas."
U.S. Sumpreme Court Justice Samuel Alito reacts as Republican U.S. presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani passes him a plate of cookies at a National Italian American Foundation gala dinner in Washington October 13, 2007. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES)
Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, right, gives his endorsement to Republican presidential hopeful former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, left, during a campaign stop on Friday, Oct. 12, 2007, in Charleston S.C. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney)
Perry isn’t supporting Gore this time around?
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He owes his advantage in part to his role as a name partner with a powerhouse, Houston-based law firm known for its impressive roster of energy-giant clients, Bracewell & Giuliani.
His partnership in the law firm has also brought Giuliani unwelcome criticism in connection with some of the firm’s more controverisal clients, including a Spanish contractor involved in planning part of a Texas superhighway toll road known as the Trans-Texas Corridor.
Texas farmers and other landowners are worried their property rights will be trampled to make way for the highway. Conspiracy theorists see Giuliani, because of his highway connections, as allied with a cabal of international monied interests plotting to supplant the United States with a North American Union that includes Mexico and Canada.
Black, Perry’s spokesman, said he doubts Perry even knows that Giuliani’s firm has represented the transportation companies in connection with the project.
“The governor does not concern himself with who Rudy Giuliani’s law firm may or may not represent,” Black said.
http://www.corridorwatch.org/ttc_2007/CWA0709210.htm
Giuliani fancies himself as an expert on homeland security issues and a law enforcer. And he has amassed quite the portfolio since 2002, earning $20 million in that year alone, by selling himself as such. He owns Giuliani Partners, Giuliani Safety & Security and Giuliani Capital Advisors. In March 2007 he sold Giuliani Capital Advisors, a former Ernst & Young finance company he purchased in 2002, to Macquerie Infrastructure Consortium. Not coincidentally, it is a partner of Cintra’s in its shared operations of toll roads in both Indiana and Chicago, IL.
Bracewell & Giuliani represents some of the biggest multi-national oil, utility infrastructure and financial corporations both in the U.S. and abroad. With that have come the connections that Giuliani has been able to tap into for campaign donors, essential for his presidential bid, not only in Texas but nationwide, as he has become the consummate globalist. But more troubling than potential conflicts of interest as a public servant is his lack of compunction to secure U.S. borders and then planting himself squarely in the middle of one of the most controversial and historic highway system projects since the 1956 National Federal-Aid Highway Act.
Particularly unnerving, given Giuliani’s personal experience on 9-11, is his defense of open borders at any cost while condoning the NAFTA Superhighway Corridor and by extension the North American Union, without the purview or consent of the U.S. Congress or the will of the American people.
We should have seen it coming when Giuliani enacted Special Order 40 in 1994, during his tenure as Mayor of New York City, in ordering law enforcement officers to no longer check the legal status of suspects caught violating the law. We should have seen it coming when Rudolph Giuliani single-handedly decided that illegal aliens were not lawbreakers and also quit upholding the law. And unfortunately we now do see it coming. But sadly, he may now actually be handed the opportunity to no longer defend and abide by the U.S. Constitution of the United States of America.
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/grassi/070504
I’d say Perry is making a play for a cabinet position in a Guiliani administration.
Yes, but Rudy is going to fade.
I don’t care who endorses Rudy. If he’s the nominee, I’m taking my vote elsewhere. I cannot in good conscience hold my nose and vote for this steaming pile of leftism.
I hope so.
Agreed. I will vote for the R nominee unless it's Rudy. If he wins the nomination, I will vote third party in November.
Rudy will be outed just like Dukakis was.
Me three.
Me and my wife: Four and five
You don’t want to upset Sean Hannity......
Good, get that POS out of Texas!
Funny.
Guess we know who Vincente wants.
You people that say you won’t vote for Rudy (if he indeed is the R Nominee) crack me up. You must be the village idiots in your respective towns. A vote not for Rudy is the same as a vote for Hillary.
Go see a doctor. You’ve been infected with the “Nader Syndrome.”
Of course my nose might be a little bent out of shape because of the many times I have had to hold it while voting. It will just be too easy for me to find something more important to do then voting for Rudy come election day if he is the GOP nominee. Like getting that root canal that I have been putting off done.
Which party?
The Disgruntled Soreloser Party?
The Raving Wingnut Party?
The Barely Got Registered in 50 States Fringe Party?
The Gets 1/10th the votes of the 'Green Party' Party?
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