Posted on 05/15/2011 10:37:20 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Washington (CNN)-Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani admitted Friday that he can "probably be talked into" a run for the presidency.
While speaking to a group from the Republican National Lawyers Association at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Giuliani asserted that his major goal is for a Republican to be elected as president in 2012.
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Not sure I'm available for 2012.
Giuliani should change parties. He’d be more believable as a Democrat.
I haven’t seen anyone on here whose opinion of Rudy is so similar to mine. I’ve said for years that he’s my favorite quasi-fascist in America. The fact is, the NYC of the early 90s had become so uncivilized, it needed a dictator-lite guy with some pro market leanings. That being said, I could never support him in a Republican primary and I’d have to hold my nose for him in a general.
Countdown to removal of posting privileges........
Yep. If Rudy keeps floating this 'running stuff' up. He'll out a lot of the 2008 and later, 'moderates', who signed up.
Then we'll have another HUGH Bug Zapper thread. The last one in '07-'08 was a thing of beauty. Zots by the dozens :-)
Questions are being raised over Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's policy on terrorism, after a report revealed he has strong ties to two foreign investment consortia working to own or lease U.S. toll roads, including the Mexican--Trans-Texas Corridor 35, which is identified as part of the I-35 "NAFTA Superhighway." --SNIP--
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March 1, 2007
REFERENCE Bracewell & Giuliani Firm Advises Spain's Cintra in First Privatization of Toll Road in Texas
DALLAS Bracewell & Giuliani LLP advised Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., a Spanish transportation company, in its successful bid to develop State Highway 121 into a toll road through Collin and Denton counties.
The award to Cintra, approved by the Texas Transportation Commission, is the first privatization of a Texas toll road. Bracewell is acting as project counsel to Cintra with respect to the 50-year concession from the Texas Department of Transportation. Cintra will pay a $2.1 billion upfront and annual lease payments totaling $700 million. "Cintra was awarded this project because of its proven expertise and competitive proposal," said Thomas O. Moore, partner with Bracewell & Giuliani. "This is the largest transportation deal of 2007. This is one of only five deals in the country."
Three firms have competed for the Comprehensive Development Agreement for State Highway 121 since last summer. The proposals were reviewed and scored based on selection criteria set forth by the Regional Transportation Council, the metropolitan planning agency for the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
This CDA is a public-private partnership that allows the provider to handle all facets of developing the toll road, including completing construction and operating and maintaining the corridor.
Cintra, a subsidiary of Grupo Ferrovial specialized in toll roads and car parks, is one of the world's leading private-sector developers of transport infrastructure.
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It was by no means a bad appearance for Rudy Giuliani at the Latino Coalition. But one got the feeling that his applause lines were a little out of sync with his audience’s passions. Latino Coalition Chairman Hector Barreto — President Bush’s appointed head of the Small Business Administration from 2001 until last year — gave an introduction so effusively enthusiastic that Giuliani ought to take him on the road with him for his stump speeches.
Barreto noted that the group had invited every major candidate, “Republican, Democrat, Green, red or blue” and that only Giuliani had accepted; and he mentioned that the former New York City mayor had rearranged his schedule in order to appear. He was, Barreto said, supposed to be in California preparing for a debate at the Reagan library later this week.
Describing Giuliani’s accomplishments as mayor, he summarized, “Rudy [pause] did [pause] miracles.” So maybe it would be tough to live up to the hype, as Rudy was greeted with a standing ovation from the 250 or so Latino Coalition members in the ballroom of the Four Seasons in Washington.
“Dignity” is not a word commonly heard on the campaign trail, but speaking before a group that included a healthy amount of small business owners and entrepreneurs, Giuliani more or less portrayed it as the centerpiece of his campaign. “I reformed welfare not because I didn’t care about people, but because I did,” he said. “If your brother or sister were out of a job, what would you do for them? Would you try to make them dependent on you for the rest of their life? Of course not. You would want to help them get a job, so they can maintain their dignity, their self-respect, their ability to take care of their families.”
Thus the social reforms of Giuliani the mayor would continue, he suggested, under Giuliani the president: using government to nudge people from the easy, if unfulfilling, dependence that comes from relying on government assistance and services, to the self-respect and independence that comes from working. The theme was a distant cousin of John Edwards’s complaint that the country has come to value wealth over work: The North Carolina populist looks at the working class and laments that their labors were under-rewarded compared to hedge-fund managers; Giuliani looks at the working class and sees them as the role model for the young and those still languishing on some form of assistance.
“Dignity” came up again in his discussion of immigration, where Giuliani suggested his measuring stick for whether he wanted to eject someone here illegally was whether or not they were working hard, willing to pay taxes and back fines and fees, and whether they were supporting their families. He described his exasperation with the immigration authorities as mayor: “I had the police go after drug dealers, and I told the immigration authorities, ‘I got a couple hundred drug dealers you can deport, why don’t you put ’em first?’ And they said, ‘Well, we have this professor who overstayed his visa, he’s first on line. We have two people working in the back of a restaurant. We have three guys in the construction business. We have a guy who drives a van.’
Now you can debate whether these guys are good for the economy — I think they are, but you can have a nice debate about it — but I said, ‘Hey, I got drug dealers, pal. They’re not good for anybody! They’ve got no interest in paying taxes, not trying to make better life for their family, they’re trying to kill people!’ They said, ‘We have our priorities.’ Basically, the problem was too big.”
Rudy was the Rudy we’ve all seen before, invoking Reagan at every opportunity and not only using “optimistic” frequently, but actually demonstrating optimism, as when he said the illegal immigration debate was an illustration of an unrecognized greatness of America: “America is the country that more people around the world want to come to than any other country,” Giuliani said. “Before we reflect on our problems, we should reflect on our strengths. More people around the world want to come here than anywhere else. Isn’t that good?”
That question got a loud bout of applause. “When we hear about how unpopular America is, and how angry people are at America around the world… well, if we’re so unpopular, why do they want to come here? We must be doing something right!”
The GOP base is not going to go for anyone who is voluntarily on his third wife. Apparently Newt, Rudy, and the Donald are too thick to understand this.
That is a point well taken. We know he has RINO attitudes about a lot of issues, but offers proven leadership ability. He or anyone like him could be an asset IF they were able put their personal feelings/preferences aside and do the will of the people.
Rudy is probably one of the few who could. That said, I want a conservative anyway!
NYCity likes to think they own the immigration story..
Rudy Giuliani scratches that itch.. plays that game.. cons that con..
NYC has Lady Liberty spread legged for Democrat Porn not a Political Gyno Exam..
Illegal immigrants are Mostly NOT immigrants they are INSURGENTS..
They have no thought of becoming Americans and most have no idea of what "that" means..
NYCity voters truly transform Lady Liberty from a symbol of FREEDOM into a symbol of Prostitution..
NYC voters never met a tax they didn't like and make the taxpayer a "John".. and Rudy is indeed, a PimP..
Didn't use to be so.... about 60 years ago..
Yep!
No mo Rooty Tooty.
Let him and his gangsta cohorts go back to selling out America where they belong.
Wellthe RINO Quintruplets of 2008
Guliani, Romney, McCain, Paul, Huckabee
Huckabee is out this time
McCain probably wont try...
Paul might be running
Romney has never stopped running
Why wouldnt Guliani join his RINO Homies ???
BTW Are there any Conservatives planning to run ???
” BTW Are there any Conservatives planning to run ??? “
Bachmann might.
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