Posted on 05/24/2011 9:50:17 AM PDT by camerongood210
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani isn't just thinking about running for president next year: It's his obsession and he's already mapping out a strategy to knock off GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney in New Hampshire.
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What's more, adds King, Giuliani has already been "talking to people in New Hampshire" about his strategy to focus all his early attention there, not the Iowa caucus, because beating Romney in the former Massachusetts governor's political backyard will propel the New Yorker's candidacy into the next two showdowns in South Carolina and Nevada.
"He would focus on New Hampshire almost entirely," said King at a Monday night dinner organized by the conservative American Spectator magazine. "He is very close to running."
And apparently so is King. Urged to run by his local GOP supporters, King said he was game for a presidential bid. The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, who has a knack for grabbing controversial topics said, "Why not see where it's going to go. Odds are one in a million." But, he added, running for president provides him a national "forum" to address his concerns about terror attacks in America and charges that the Muslim community is not being cooperative enough with the FBI.
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Please keep posting the important news here. Ignore the adolescents.
I couldn’t vote for Rudy, but I like him better than Romney. At least I know what I’d get from Giuliani.
I thought it was Rodney king.
Right. He’s competing with Romney, with Giuliani, with Gingrich to be the antiPalin. Basically, you gotta figure there will be a tea party conservative vs an establishment republican. Tea Party has Palin, Bachmann, Paul. Establishment has Romney, Gingrich, and now maybe Giuliani.
New Hampshire is tough sledding for conservatives regardless, but it can deflate a rino candidate to eek out a victory there...
I agree completely- and this cycle am willing to overlook some things I wouldn't in a normal cycle, but there are so many deep divisions on the right it's hard to see how we're going to get a candidate with a chance to beat the current occupant of the oval office.
Very depressing. I like the libertarian upstarts making their voices heard- but the power structure in the GOP still holds the $$$ strings and that's what gets people elected. The RINO wing is still in charge.
I was never banned, and if Sarah doesn’t run, I am prepared to come out of retirement.
Mittens is a 49 state train-wreck.
The idiot still peddles the Obamacare insurance mandate which bankrupt Teddyland and is the primary reason the GOP took back the House .
Rudy would put quite a few states in play and a Rudy/ Palin Combo could result in a huge sweep !
Yep ....but then Im voting for anyone other than Obama
While there are certain things that I admire and respect about these two men, I’d have to say that the negatives far outweigh the positives. If either one manages to secure the nomination, it would be a disaster for the GOP, which would lose almost it’s entire conservative base and any hopes of remaining a political power.
Rudy could be a stalking horse for someone.....of all of the people he praises the most, it’s Palin. Plus he hates Romney, it makes one wonder
Giuliani could hurt Romney, but if Giuliani beats Romney, knocks Romney out, it means Giuliani is standing. Giuliani could make a plausible case that he could win. Romney and Gingrich and guys who can’t win the nomination - that means the tea party conservatives have 2 targets. Romney and Gingrich and Giuliani and those who can’t win - 3 targets.
Get behind Herman Cain, Sarah Palin or the conservative of your choice and ignore the RINO cat fight.
How did that work out 4 years ago?
From the irony department: The Fred Thompson 2008 campaign’s most notable achievement was in derailing the “inevitability” of the Guiliani campaign. In 2011/2012, Guiliani might serve the same type of purpose in knocking out Romney.
If Palin is in, and Giuliani gets in, that does help Palin, it does allow her clearer victories between when both Romney and Giuliani are in and when one drops out. And I think that the Palin romp scenario is strengthened by Giuliani being in there. But if it’s a Bachmann or Paul scenario, we’d like a beatable opponent, like Pawlenty.
My point exactly.
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