True, oh so true...
Posted on 10/26/2007 9:28:57 PM PDT by Senator Goldwater
Starting last fall, when Giuliani first called Bill Simon and said he was running for president, Simon, 56, has been more responsible than anyone for Giuliani's policy education, and he has been the agent charged with managing the sometimes eager, sometimes awkward relationship between the former mayor of a liberal city and the conservative establishment.
Well before Giuliani said publicly that he would be a candidate, Simon put him through a rolling seminar that those in the campaign called Simon University, bringing in thinkers to brief Giuliani on key issues. The result is that though many of Giuliani's campaign operatives worked with him when he was mayor, his policy staffers, who have largely been assembled by Simon, come mostly from the think-tank world.
The roster of the seminars was a who's who of conservative intellectuals, and their ideas a menu of conservative thought. There were neoconservatives Norman Podhoretz, John R. Bolton and R. James Woolsey Jr. on foreign policy, as well as less ideological thinkers such as Gen. Anthony C. Zinni and Yale professor Charles Hill; the Hoover Institution's Michael Boskin on taxes and economic policy; Hoover's race scholars Shelby Steele and Thomas Sowell; and retired Gen. Jack Keane and the military scholar Frederick W. Kagan, the authors of the Iraq "surge."
"Simon is an incredible asset for the Giuliani campaign," said Grover Norquist, a conservative anti-tax activist. "He has the added advantage for Giuliani of being a serious social conservative and a pro-lifer, which gives people some assurance that social conservatives and judges will not be ignored."
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Hillary could surround herself with the finest conservative minds in the world, and she'd still be a liberal. Same with Guiliani.
Giuliani’s certainly putting on a nice Conservative gown. Not sure that this equates to “leadership”, which usually means standing by well honed principles...
Hillary could surround herself with the finest conservative minds in the world.
You missed my point. I don't care who Rudy surrounds himself with, he's still a liberal. Whether it's Hillary or Rudy, I won't vote for a liberal for president, period.
Perhaps so, and perhaps you are right, but that’s a pretty impressive group of folks offering advise to Rudy’s campaign.
You are never to old to get and education.
that’s a pretty impressive group of folks offering advise to Rudy’s campaign
You're absolutely right. However, I fear that the "education" Rudy is looking for is what to say to get conservatives to vote for him. These things should come from a core of consistent conservative principles, not from the advice of paid "educators".
Well, to this non-New York, non-D.C. non-insider, it comes off like fraud, misrepresentation, and disingenuous hogwash.
Yea, a pretty impressive group of sellouts!
They sold out their principles(if they had any), their morals(once again, if they had any), the conservative movement, and the Republican Party.
I have lost total respect for each of them.
That is the LAST thing this poor Republic needs right now!!!
The only education Mr. Giuliani needs is to be told that the abortion of children is wrong and that the taxpayers should not be forced to pay for it.
And none of his moneyed friends seem to have the courage to say it to him.
“That is the LAST thing this poor Republic needs right now!!!”
No. The LAST thing this poor Republic needs is Her Royal Heinous the Hillary in the White House.
That’s what I said.
Bill Simon told National Review that he had an assurance that Giuliani will oppose repealing the Hyde Amendement, the federal law that bars federal money from being used for abortion services. Notice it is Simon saying such things and not Giuliani himself.
It seems that Rooty is an empty vessel and the DC elitists send him out filled with their ideas to win. That must be why nothing he says comes from the heart. He like a high pressure used car salesman.
Full of BS to convince you that you aren’t really getting a lemon.
Pretty sickening to think he is their sock puppet.
Who wodda thunk it? A fair, objective article on a Republican by the WaPo.
What’s the temperature in hell?
True, oh so true...
Yea, a pretty impressive group of sellouts!
Please.
Rudy has the foreign policy dream team. I think he has been able to atract all this high-powered talent is because people can smell a winner.
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