Posted on 04/20/2009 8:47:22 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Rudy Giuliani is headlining his second New York Republican fundraiser in two weeks as a poll shows he would beat Democratic incumbent Gov. David Paterson in an election.
Although many New York Republicans are pushing the former New York City mayor to consider a run for governor in 2010, Giuliani hasn't committed.
On Monday he was in Albany for the annual Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner. Last week he was the big draw at the state Republican committee's annual dinner. Both have been must-attend events for past GOP governors.
A Siena College poll on Monday finds Giuliani would beat Paterson 56% to 29% in a matchup.
The latest Siena poll surveyed 682 registered voters from Monday through Wednesday last week. It has margin of error of nearly 4%age points.
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I’d like to see how Rudy fares against Cuomo. I have a feeling Paterson won’t run for re-election.
It would be nice to see him squash all those nutcase taxes the radical libs in that state instituted. They are as bad as ours in Taxifornia.
I’ve heard talk about that but Patterson has a strong card to play and if he doesn’t play it I sure would play it under the covers about how the Democrats pushed out a blind black guy out of the race. Sure doesn’t look good to say the least no matter how unpopular Patterson is. Let them feast on their own swill is what say. Rudy would have a good chance in NY against Cuomo and I think even conservatives would rally behind him.
udy has onme thig going for him. Cuomo is an idiot and it usually shows.
Agree.
I remember someone posting a message on the boards on NY Post. They said if Caroline Kennedy was (had been) installed in the Senate that Son of Sam could beat her in the next election. LOL! Son of Sam is no joke but the line was pretty funny.
As liberal as he is on social issues, he should just do it. We need to kick out useless Paterson, as well as Gloomberg. Heck, if Giuliani tells me how the city runs, I’d figure out a way to do it.
Rudy is light years ahead of anything on the dimocRAT ticket.
May have a few differences with Rudy but say what you like,
Rudy would not have bowed to the Saudi King, would not
have kissed up to Hugo and the other Latin and South American Marxists.
Would not be in love with the Iranian Hitler.
Would not be apologizing for America to the world.
and Wouldn’t sit back while Marxists and IslamOfascists thugs bash America.
I’m not a big Rudy fan, but he’s far and away the best guy conservatives can hope for in New York.
Even though Giuliani isn’t as Republican as I would like, he’s much better than Paterson.
Ahh . Reason is alive and well. Rudy is an old tone guy . He will not stand by and take a beating , he will deliver one. The left fears him.
Wouldn’t this essentially be a step down from NYC mayor?
If he ever wants another crack at President he needs to hold this office.
Yet a number of people were banned from this site for the crime of supporting Rudy. That was disgraceful.
He is fine for NY Governor, but he is still a social liberal and was thus entirely unfit for being a Republican Presidential candidate.
More Republican? Rudy is a fiscal Conservative, but a social liberal (his Ideology).
As for being a Republican, being a Republican is being part of a party, not an Ideology. People who have certain Ideologies make up a party.
Rudy was a disappointment in the presidential race, but Rudy will do well as the governor of New York state.
Rudy would beat Patterson easily. Being blind and black works only so far. NY is the most heavily taxed state in the nation and Patterson promises more of the same. The Sptizer debacle and Patterson’s own problems in that regard will hurt the Dems even in NY.
He also needs to do three other things.
He has did one of them by coming out against gay marriage.
He needs to reaffirm his support for gun rights.
He needs to promise never to promote abortion as an agenda.
That is what he needs to do in order to run for President again. I’d prefer though that he give that dream up and just prove himself as governor and then Senator.
I’ve always liked Rudy and he would’ve been President if not for his support for socially liberal ideas. Some Gopers think wrongly that the party needs to be more socially liberal to win but that sentiment runs entirely contrary to reality. Not one state has voted for gay marriage and if given the right to vote on abortion it would have been even further restricted by the will of the people.
Rudy is the example I’d like to see of a moderate Republican something that has become sort of a dirty word and truthfully in most cases should be. The weak spineless types who run around giving lip service to fiscal conservatism while caving to anything the left wants and attacking Christians and social conservatives to make themselves fit in more with their liberal friends is disgusting. If you look at the three Gopers who voted with Obama in the Senate one has to ask where are they conservative at all? I don’t see fiscal conservatism or social conservatism. They are really in my opinion members of the wrong party. I don’t mind people who disagree but I do not think the Republican party should have a place for sexual rights or abortion rights activists no more than I think there is room for big government conservatives. Republicanism requires that you primarily understand the idea and value of smaller less intrusive government not as Meghan McCain recently said “efficient government”. When someone talks about “efficient government” they should have their heads examined.
That said Rudy understands fiscal conservatism and is a great spokesman for it and national security and I hope he runs and wins in NY.
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