Posted on 03/18/2011 5:57:10 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
GREENLAND, NH (CBS) – Rudy Giuliani is testing the waters to see if he wants to run for President, again.
Giuliani, who visited the Country View Restaurant in Greenland, NH Friday, says he’s learned some lessons from the last lackluster campaign. “I’d spend a lot more time in New Hampshire.”
He explains, “We were so busy building a national campagin and raising 50 or 60 million dollars that we didn’t give each of the primary states enough attention.
We were running a national campaign when we should have been doing is running a local campaign. Alot of candidates make that mistake, we made it, and then we paid for it. And it was fair.”
What would it take for him to run again? “I don’t know,” he responds. His thoughts are: A feeling you would make a difference, feeling you have a decent chance of winning, and thinking you were needed for the debate. “Alot that arises from analyzing yourself and the field.”
What does he think of the potential field? It’s still too early, he says.
But he didn’t pass at the chance to take aim at New Hampshire G.O.P. frontrunner Mitt Romney and his Massachusetts health care reform? “I like Mitt very much, I think Mitt is a terrific guy.
I have a great deal of respect for him. I think that was a big mistake. It’s clearly a mistake. It was a forerunner of Obama care. Same idea, the core thing was a mandate. A mandate to me was a big mistake.” Giuliani goes on, “To tell me I have to do something, and then tax me if I don’t do it seems to me a violation of the constitution.
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NO MORE RINOS!
Don’t waste your time Rudy, your not going to get any farther than you did in 2008...
I’d vote for Rudy.
Giuliani splits the Mitt vote...bring it ... magritte
I think Rudy has a friendship with Sarah and could run interference for Sarah by taking votes away from mittsy. Rudy is a no nonsense guy and could be a good running mate for Sarah-at least Rudy seems to be accepted by the elites. If he doesn’t run I think he would back and campaign for Sarah. Don’t put Rudy under the bus just yet.
NO EFFING WAY~!!!!!!!!!!!
I put Rudy under the bus a long, long time ago. He’s a phony and a putz.
How did you get missed on the last Rino Rudy purge?
To Rudy, Newt, Donald, Huck and Mitt: All at once now:
“Get off the phone, you big dopes!”
Get that toe out of the water Rudy. We said no last time. Sometimes no really means no.
if I had a choice between Obama & Rudy,the choice is Rudy. I would not stay home & waste my vote.
I became permanently anti-Rudy after I learned that as mayor of New York, he used to remains of 911 victims to fill potholes in the streets of New York.
I don't expect many fresh faces on the field.
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