Posted on 04/04/2007 6:11:50 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday said everything has to be considered if the United States wants to break its reliance on foreign oil, including more drilling off Florida's coast.
Calling the energy supply a major domestic problem, Giuliani said the nation needs to focus on nuclear power production and renewable energy sources. In the meantime it also needs to see what oil can be tapped, he said.
"Energy independence means everything has to be open for discussion," Giuliani said when asked about offshore drilling. "The idea of having more oil under our command, so to speak, or within our orbit probably for some period of time is going to be important. The ultimate goal, however, should be renewable sources of energy."
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Well, if Rudy wins with a landslide, he’ll have coattails, Republicans may recapture Congress, and with his leadership, he may stiffen the backbones of the Republicans in Congress and actually get things done.
Short of that, he can at least veto the Dems most damaging bills, stopping them from destroying the country.
Well, how about the words of no less than Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts (as "conservative" a nominee as Bush might have picked), who, at his confirmation hearing, said that as far as he was concerned, Roe v. Wade was "settled law"....
- John
It's pathetic and obscene that Castro and the ChiComs and Hugo Diablo can drill off Florida but the polluting Yanquis can't.
Ditto that since Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon and Michael Douglas and Wilford Brimley in China Syndrome (1979) showed we'll all die if an ant farts in a nuclear plant we can't build any.
Nor any refineries.
And we must have forty formulae so they're always in short supply hence terribly expensive.
Rudy will cut through this epic Leftist propaganda and git er done.
He's not "new tone" about this or anything.
I tell you the toughest fight would be Rudy versus Al Gore Fights To Save His Planet.
We're just a few Happy Meals from that happening.
Just the way Rudy didn’t let the PC crowd keep him from cleaning up NYC, he won’t let them keep him from making the US energy independent — a huge contribution to our national security and economy.
Those of us with meaningful degrees don't take fag classes like that.
I’d gouge my eyeballs out with broken off plastic sporks before i ever took political analysis from you.
Are you assuming that they'd feel better if they were raped by someone of the same race?
Isn’t the Persian Gulf international waters? We should drill right in the middle of it.
Simple. Giuliani's position on global warming is not well known.
But it will be.
I’ll answer your hypothetical question.. NO! I would never vote for a Democrat in a million years. The Dem party has become the party of George Soros and a contingent of Socialist’s/Marxist’s like Hillary Clinton. No way. But I will vote for Rudy Giuliani or any candidate who wins the Republican nomination.
By all means build new nuke plants. Do some research on fusion, too, although there is plenty of fusion going on in that bright thing in the sky if we could tap into that. My uranium mine company could use some fresh customers but is doing just fine anyway.
Add my thanks too. Keep up the good work, areafiftyone and keep your sense of humor. You need it for some of these clowns.
Not really. It was from my failed effort to instill some common sense in you anti-Rudy types.
Common sense is not voting for a liberal on the Republian ticket.
I am anything but a Rudy fan (and, for the record, it’s his gun-grabbing ways more than the abortion/gay rights issues that turn me off) but...
Giving credit where credit is due, Rudy is dead-on spot with the issue of expanded drilling for our own oil supply.
Further, anyone who doesn’t think we should explore alternative sources of energy (bio-diesel, being one)is off their rocker.
BREAKING NEWS: Not being a right-wing zealot is not being liberal. To win the Republican party needs to be a big tent to attract conservatives, moderates, independent and Reagan democrats. That is common sense.
The original topic had nothing to do with abortion.
That's important info to remember during this primary season when the group that some have termed "right wing zealots" pound Rudy and pound Rudy on an issue that is, in effect, already settled. This just tears apart the whole Republican party and also drives indies and Dems away from voting Republican.
And now the zealots are hammering Rudy on supporting public funding for abortions. He's said he hates abortion and wishes women wouldn't have them. If abortion is legal and a certain state's law permits public funding, then the Prez as a federale can't interfere. It's that simple.
We should focus on the key issues of lower taxes, fiscal responsibility, and our nation's security. If the primary process refuses to allow Americans to focus on those issues, then it's proper for states like CA to move up their primaries so their people have a voice, instead of allowing states like South Carolina to decide the race by keying in on the most right wing conservative positions and destroying good candidates who don't fall in lockstep with those positions, thereby making the rest of the country, who has no voice, suffer the results.
That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.
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