Posted on 04/27/2007 12:50:05 PM PDT by areafiftyone
(Raleigh, NC - AP, April 27, 2007) - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani continued his offensive against Democrats on Friday, saying his party is best qualified to deal with wars against poverty at home and terrorism abroad.
"I'll be darned if I'm going to concede that Democrats care more about poor people than we do," Giuliani said during his brief base-building trip to the home state of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards.
Giuliani said Democratic calls for mandatory universal health care would only exacerbate the cost of care by putting the system in the hands of bureaucrats.
Democratic candidates renewed their calls for universal health care during a debate in South Carolina on Thursday, saying that a new system would help streamline costs and cover the nation's 45 million uninsured.
"They're moving toward socialized medicine so fast, it'll make your head spin," Giuliani said of the debate, adding that private competition and limits on malpractice lawsuits could help bring down the cost of care. "When we want to cover poor people, as we should, we give them vouchers."
He also echoed that call in discussing education, saying that Democrats are unwilling to reform the nation's education system with charter schools. The former New York City mayor said he struggled to reform the schools in that city.
"We weren't really able to fundamentally reform them," Giuliani said, saying he was young and naive to think he could. "They have to be (reformed) if they are going to be a ladder out of poverty."
The combative criticisms added a new chapter to Giuliani's offensive against Democrats. He drew the ire of several Democratic leaders earlier this week when he said the country needs a Republican leader to maintain safety from terrorism.
He stood by those remarks Friday, telling a conference of North Carolina conservatives that Democratic presidential candidates, most of whom want to begin timed troop withdrawals from Iraq, are "retreating in the face of this terrorist threat."
"When, in the history of war, has a nation that decides to retreat, printed up a schedule of that retreat and handed it to its enemies?" Giuliani said.
Giuliani, who served as New York City mayor during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, praised President Bush for his response to the event. Giuliani said the United States needs to continue to fight terrorism abroad and at home with "aggressive" use of military strength, the Patriot Act and electronic surveillance and interrogation.
"(Terrorists) do not respect weakness, they take advantage of weakness," Giuliani said. "They certainly respect strength."
Which means the government is still involved.
Rudy is no fiscal conservative.
Your welcome. The ‘rats want us to lose our heads. We need to have them lose theirs, or else Al-Qaida will take all of ours.
Rudy has no credibility.
If he won't stand up for the lives of our unborn, how will you expect him to defeat the terrorists?
Howard Dean is already triangulating Rudy on traditional values.
Rudy has no right, and independents/moderates are just going to vote for the Rat.
Rock and a hard spot.
He was involved in government BEFORE he became an actor.
He is amenable by nature.
Like Rudy is on partial-birth abortion, gay rights, gun control, etc.?
A gentlemen. No way can he attack the democrats the way they need to be attacked.
Peep the new Thompson thread. He just called Al-Qaida out and criticized the Rat withdrawal. Thompson has bigger stones than Rudy will ever have.
Funny, right before 9-11, Rudy's approval ratings as mayor were in the pits.
The lesson “they” taught us sure as heck isn’t that there is no difference between Republicans and dims (at least most Republicans)... your examples prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
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every R gets auto 40% of vote ... ditto the D. the fight is always for the 20% of the voter ... many of whom pay no attention to politics. exceptions to 40/40 were Perot first time (19%) C (44) B(37) and 64 Goldwater (37% - I think).
H will very very likely win NY ... u should assume that unless the election is a complete landslide. I think NY has only gone R once in 80 years or so.
RG can make NY close and force her to spend time and money there. RG will spend big in NY media market because that also covers NJ, Conn and NE Pa.
IN California H will only be a slight favorite up but that also forces H to spend lots of time and lots of money to defend. An enormously expensive media and organizational state but 20% of the electoral votes you need to win.
RG (just like Bush both times) needs neither state to win but if he wins California, H can’t win the election - almost impossible.
when u get to the normal other Dem states that are imperiled, that is where it gets very problamatic for H.
however anyone that discounts her appeal to women (particularly single); the organization they have; her debating skills and the mucho money they will raise would be very foolish. like her or not she is a very accomplished politician.
the left wing 527’s will also spend unimagined amounts of money on her behalf
Is Ron Paul a tower of power in the WOT for you?
Don't listen to them. I've still got divots in my nose from 1996.
I don’t support Rudy, but I do comprehend an anti-Republican bias in almost every post that you have made. All I am saying is that in 2000 and 2004, there was no nose holding. kerry and gore are as bad as any two satanists that the dims have ever run... kerry worships at the alter of elitist Euro-trash and the goracle worships money and mother Earth.
Bush is wrong on the border, wrong on immigration and wrong on NOT fighting back against the dims, but the economy and WOT are two shining accomplishments. Iraq may have been mishandled, but Bush was NOT micromanaging like Johnson did in Vietnam.
Bremmer, The State Department and General Casey were advising and working on the ground. Tenet (dim hack and incompetent ‘toon man) had the CIA so screwed up that he was giving Bush bogus intel and now is trying to project his failures upon Bush... just like the dims and socialist/communists in America are doing today.
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It's possibly genetic. Who could forget GHWB taking a dive in '92? Some times I fear there ain't no fight at all in them Bush dogs.
I forgot he thinks he's a candidate.........
Dims are attacking W...Rudy is attacking dims..... G-d bless Rudy; he’s drawing blood!
Good stuff, Rudy. Keep it up!
Maybe some of our foaming-at-the-mouth Rudy haters will now decide to vote for the Rats. Since baby-killer, gun-grabber Rudy is denouncing them, after all ...
Until Mitt, or McCrazy or even Fred Thompson start identifying DEMOCRATS as the problem as well as the terrorists, they will not gain ground on Rudy. Someone is advising him really well.
Buck, I did not read your post before I made my comments-—almost identical. Ditto.
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