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February 7, 2007 - Giuliani, McCain, Clinton In Florida Horse Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Results Close To Clinton's Razor-Thin Lead In Ohio In an early look at the 2008 presidential race in Florida, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has a razor-thin 47 - 44 percent lead over New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, while Sen. Clinton edges Arizona Sen. John McCain 47 - 43 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. These results are close to those in a January 30 poll of Ohio voters by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll, where Clinton squeaks...

In a growing field of potential GOP presidential nominees, they stand out. One: a prisoner of war who became an outspoken senator. The other: a prosecutor who rose to national prominence as New York's mayor. Would John McCain or Rudy Giuliani have a better shot in 2008? And what about the rest of the competition? You decide. Who would have a better shot at winning the Republican nomination? Rudy Giuliani 57% John McCain 43% Total Votes: 130,299 Who would have a better shot at winning the White House? Rudy Giuliani 63% John McCain 37% Total Votes: 130,072 How familiar are...

For the first time since October 1999, McCain's favorability rating among American voters has dropped below 50 percent. A Gallup poll taken last month showed him at 48 percent, down 6 points from November, and down from a high of 67 percent in February 2000. Giuliani, in contrast, has held above 60 percent favorability in Gallup polls, most recently at 62 percent. Now that Giuliani has signaled a serious intention to run, stating on Monday "I'm in this to win" as he filed papers with the Federal Election Commission, the comparisons grow in importance. For Giuliani, winning over enough of...

Feb. 7, 2007 - In Texas, they still admire George W. Bush, leastwise the Republicans do. But when I was in Dallas the other day, they had moved on from worrying about him to a new question: Could Rudy Giuliani get the GOP nomination? They were wary of Sen. John McCain, remembering past feuds, and of “mavericks” generally. They were fascinated by Rudy, however. They loved his can-do-ness, and thought that perhaps he was the only Republican who could save the party in ’08.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former New York mayor and presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani gained fame for his performance after the September 11 attacks, but charges that he also made serious blunders could give ammunition to rival candidates. Giuliani, a Republican, has all but formally declared his candidacy and polls show he is a strong contender, largely because of his steely and comforting leadership that day in 2001. But Giuliani also made mistakes in handling the city's emergency services that may have cost lives, say the co-authors of the 2006 book "Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11."...

Rudy Giuliani was on Hannity and Colmes last night, talking about his filing as a Presidential candidate and about the issues. It was a good reminder of how able a politician and leader Giuliani is, and also of the areas where his record diverges from the party's base. Giuliani approaches the social issues like abortion in what I think is the most effective way; he doesn't back off from his moderate-to-liberal policy views, but says that as President, he would appoint strict constructionist judges. If you didn't see it last night, here is part one of the Hannity interview: CLICK...

CHARLESTON, S.C. Rudy Giuliani will deliver the commencement address to The Citadel cadets May 5th. A news release from the South Carolina military school says the former New York mayor and Republican White House contender was asked to speak to graduates "because of his leadership in the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York in September 2001." The event is not open to the public. Tickets are distributed to cadets in April. Giuliani last weekend visited South Carolina, which will hold the first Southern Republican primary. On Monday, he filed a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission,...

NEW YORK -- The biggest question facing Rudy Giuliani's budding presidential bid has always been: How does a pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-gay rights moderate woo the social conservatives that dominate Republican primaries? But now some are asking another question: Does Giuliani even need social conservatives to win, given likely changes in the GOP primary schedule? In a switch that could radically redraw the electoral map, California, New Jersey, Florida and Illinois -- all big, moderate states with small evangelical wings -- are expected to move their presidential primaries to Feb. 5, just two weeks after the first primary in New...

The nominees for the 2008 presidential race will be selected in 2007. The tempo of the new political process, driven by 24-hour cable news, Internet bloggers, conservative talk radio, and liberal NPR is so rapid that the nomination race cannot exist in stasis waiting for Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina to get around to holding their votes in early 2008. Well before they open their caucuses or polling places, this nomination, in each party, will have been decided by the national media coverage during 2007.

MANCHESTER, N.H. - New Hampshire residents likely to vote in the Republican presidential primary a year from now think more highly of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani than any of his rivals, a poll released Tuesday shows. ADVERTISEMENT Giuliani's net favorability rating — the proportion of people viewing him favorably minus the proportion viewing him unfavorably — was 56 percent, well ahead of Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), 32 percent, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, 26 percent, in the University of New Hampshire poll for WMUR-TV in Manchester."He's the lesser-known candidate, but he has that rock...

Feb. 6, 2007 - Over the last decade, I’ve seen both good Rudy and bad Rudy up close. The question for voters as he enters the presidential campaign is: which Rudy Giuliani will show up on the trail—and which Rudy would go to work in the White House? And if even a little of the bad Rudy is still around, does that make him temperamentally unsuited to the presidency?

Two important points: A) I do not agree with everything this reader says about Giuliani and other things, but I think it's an interesting expression of a sentiment out there and B) this longtime reader is, himself, Italian-American: Jonah: I think Giuliani in 1982 was "one of us." Pro-life, married to his high school sweet heart and conservative. He ceased to be " one of us" in the interim. I think you have struck on an important idea about him. Conservatives loved two things about Nixon: 1) his enemies; 2) his anti-communism/national defense bona fides. In office his reaction to...

Is Giuliani the Republican Peyton Manning? I've never been much of a gambler, but my friends are another story altogether. If a sportsbook offers a line on the Unicycle Hockey World Championship (yes, it exists), they will spend hours searching for information on whether to take Australia over Canada. And if there is one mantra they have been insistent on until this year, it has been this: Always Bet Against Peyton Manning in the Playoffs. Sure, the Colts' quarterback has a fine football pedigree, a high football IQ, and all those records. But up to this years' playoffs, he had...

Rudy Giuliani Will Announce Candidacy in California on Saturday By Mike Baron Feb 6, 2007 On Febuary 1, 2007 the Post Chronicle reported that a source close to the Rudolph Giuliani campaign confirmed through an additional source, that Giuliani was sending people out into all 50 states to secure his name on the primary ballots. We were 4 days earlier than everyone else and it was vastly under-reported. Our friends at the Hinzsight Report are now reporting that Giuliani will announce his candidacy in California on Saturday. Dave Hinz has more: 'Although Rudy Giuliani filed amended paperwork with the Federal...

<p>There is an assumption by many that Giuliani is un-nominatable as a Republican for President given his less than conservative positions on many social issues. Charlie Cook summed up the conventional Washington wisdom on Giuliani's chances with his statement in the Washington Post several months ago that he'll "win the Tour de France before Rudy Giuliani wins the Republican nomination."</p>

Just when the Southerners thought the silverware was safe from yankees, here come not one but two New Yorkers, both aiming for the White House. Hillary is already tracking snow into parlors in New Hampshire and Iowa, and now Rudy Giuliani has finally wound up his impersonation of Hamlet, filing a "statement of candidacy" with the Federal Election Commission that is tantamount to announcing that he, too, really and truly yearns to be president of the United States. Soon they'll head South, where presidential candidates, particularly Republicans, must do or die.

Rudy Giuliani vs. the Greens John Berlau | 2/6/2007 @ 2:44 pm [Contact John Berlau] Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani has all but declared himself a Republican presidential candidate by filing an official “statement of candidacy” and saying he is “in to win.” In my new book, Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health, I reveal a surprising fact about Giuliani that so far has been little discussed in national coverage: Giuliani’s record as New York mayor of standing up to green groups to take steps to promote prosperity and public health. In Eco-Freaks, I detail Giuliani’s tough fight...

February 6, 2007 Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) has moved a step closer to officially enter the 2008 race for the White House, but polling in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination remains little changed. Giuliani attracts 27% of the vote, down from 29% a week ago. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that Senator John McCain’s (R) support has held steady at 19% among Likely GOP Primary voters.Rasmussen Reports releases updated polling data on the Republican nominating contest every Tuesday. Results for the Democrats are updated on Mondays. While Giuliani and McCain remain...

“Murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes,” Rudy Giuliani once said. “But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other.” Good point, Rudy. Now, what about a climate — not to mention a Republican presidential candidate — that not only tolerates, but allows unelected judges to legalize the practice of delivering a child until only its head remains within its mothers womb so the child can be killed by sucking out its brains? What about a climate where same-sex couples are given the same legal status as...

NEWTOWN, Conn.—In response to New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's filing of a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission yesterday, indicating that he would enter the 2008 presidential race as a Republican, the firearms industry's trade association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), reminded America's sportsmen and gun-enthusiasts of the former mayor's record of hostility toward firearms and gun-owners. "Recent remarks indicate the mayor is attempting to camouflage his record on guns – a political maneuver now common for politicians seeking national office," said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF senior vice president and general counsel. In June of 2000,...

Monday, February 05, 2007 Giuliani on Hannity: MUST SEE TV   Part 1: Part 2: If you can't view it or are at work, click below for transcript TRANSCRIPT: HANNITY: I'm Sean Hannity. We get to our top story tonight. Earlier today former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani filed a statement of candidacy papers. Mayor Giuliani joins us for "Hannity & Colmes" exclusive. Congratulations or condolences? GIULIANI: A little of both. Mostly congratulations. It's wonderful thing to be organizing and putting together and it's very humbling to think that running for president of the united states is-- for a...

-- IT'S semi-pseudo-almost-nearly kind-of official: Rudy's running for president. Basically. In essence. He could change his mind. But he probably won't. Almost certainly. Which makes sense. Rudy Giuliani is leading the Republican field by five points (with 31 percent to John McCain's 26 percent, according to the Real Clear Politics poll average).

February 6, 2007 -- Sexy Judi Giuliani is keeping a tight lip-lock on her hubby as he moved even closer yesterday to officially announcing his presidential bid. As his loyal missus bared some of the secrets of her marriage to "America's Mayor" in a candid new interview, Giuliani had his eyes on another prize. "We still have to formally announce it and do a few more things, but this about as close as you're going to get," Giuliani said on Fox News Channel's "Hannity and Colmes" last night - hours after filing federal "statement of candidacy" papers. "Today, we just...

Would you accept a gay agenda/NARAL supporting abortionist gun-grabber as your party's savior against Hillary Clinton even if it means we abandon the pro-life, pro-family, pro-freedom of religion and pro-gun planks from the party's platform? And most likely ends any prayer of ever overturning Roe vs Wade or preventing gay marriage as the law of the land? And eventually leads to permanently ending any and all mention of God or prayer in the public square? And further erodes away the right of the people to keep and bear arms? Will preachers speaking out against the gay agenda eventually become a...

'THAT WAS A PRESIDENT... McCAIN ON MTP WAS A SENATOR... AND HILLARY IS A MONSTER'(Dick Morris on Giuliani) by Mia T, 2.05.07 Will be posting the Giuliani interview here shortly...

Because the GOP, and America, need Rudy now. More than ever. by DaveG @ 5:40 pm. Filed

Many skeptics continue to question whether Rudy Giuliani is serious about making a run for the White House, but it was abundantly clear on Saturday that he had come to Manchester for more than the sub-freezing temperatures. Addressing over 500 activists at the New Hampshire Republican Party's annual meeting as part of a two-day swing through the state, Giuliani sketched the broad outlines of what looks like a presidential run. Sounding at times like a motivational speaker, Giuliani cautioned against cynicism and pessimism in the wake of November's election results and challenges in the ongoing War on Terror. The message...

Personally, I prefer Tancredo although I admire "America's Mayor," and this article sheds some light on Rudy's little known conservative and courageous accomplishments.

According to a source close to The Giuliani campaign, Rudy Giuliani is throwing his hat into the ring.  The Hinzsight Report confirms, through a source close to the Giuliani campaign, that he is presently sending people out into all 50 states to secure his name on the primary ballots. "Despite Mayor Giuliani's public cautiousness, this is evidence that he is seriously pursuing the Presidency in 2008, and he should be taken very seriously.  Critical state polls have shown Mayor Giuliani leading the pack, and it's about time that he start being considered what he is--the front-runner" a source tells...

Rudy and the Republican Nomination New York, Feb 2 - To: Team Rudy From: Brent Seaborn, Strategy Director Date: February 2, 2007 Re: Rudy and the Republican Nomination Over the last month or two there has been a good deal of public opinion polling on the 2008 Republican primary race. I thought it would be helpful to take a step back and take a closer look at how voters – particularly Republican primary voters – feel about Rudy Giuliani and why we think we are well-positioned heading in to the primary season. Americans Have a Highly Favorable Opinion of Mayor...

Inching ever-closer to declaring a White House bid, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said yesterday "there's a real good chance" he's running for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination. Giuliani was in South Carolina - a key presidential battleground - meeting with local Republicans when he was asked whether he planned to finish exploring a possible run and official declare. "There's a real good chance," said Giuliani, who has stepped up his campaign and fund-raising stops in recent weeks. Giuliani's comments were his most succinct to date on his presidential aspirations and came as his new strategy director, Brent Seaborn, sent a...

January 29, 2007 A Giuliani fund-raiser will be held Jan. 29 in Pacific Palisades, Calif., at the home of Bill Simon, the 2002 Republican candidate for governor of California, costing $2,300 a person and $4,600 per couple. January 30, 2007: Mary Bono’s campaign is sponsoring a golf event to raise funds for Giuliani’s committee on Tuesday, at the Rancho Mirage home and golf course of Edra Blixseth, Porcupine Creek Golf Club. Information: (310) 500-4284 or by e-mail at events@marybono.com February 1, 2007: Texas Republican contributors are being solicited to spend $30,000 for dinner with former New York City Mayor Rudolph...

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IT'S NOW A RUDY ROMP By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN Giuliani: Managing to assuage righty fears. February 5, 2007 * A Fox News poll of Jan. 30-31 shows the former mayor jumping out to a significant lead among Republicans - 34 to 22 percent. * A Gallup poll taken Jan. 25-28 shows Giuliani is better liked by Republicans than McCain -74 to 21 percent and more trusted to handle a crisis (68-20). Some 60 percent say Giuliani "better understands the problems of the average person," against 33 percent who pick McCain. By 58-34, America's Mayor is seen as the...

Breaking on Fox News. Giuliani Files Statement of Candidacy for President No article yet.

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, weighing a bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, said yesterday that President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq “makes sense,” even if its prospects for success are uncertain. “We have to give it a try,” Giuliani said in a speech to the West 2007 military conference, sponsored by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association and U.S. Naval Institute at the San Diego Convention Center. “I cannot guarantee you it will work.” “The strategy makes sense,” he said. “It makes sense to me that at least we would try to hold the areas that...

Rudy: I Would Appoint (Judges Like) Scalia, Alito and Roberts The Brody file has received the transcription of Rudy Giuliani's comments today in South Carolina where he talked about what kind of judges he would appoint. He was speaking to South Carolina's Republican Executive Committee meeting in Columbia. He took questions on a wide variety of issues, including the role of the Federal judiciary. Below is a transcript of his answer in response to a question from an audience member. SC GOP Executive Committee Meeting - February 3, 2007 "On the Federal judiciary I would want judges who are strict...

Nothing like the day an Italian-American Republican comes close to announcing his presidential candidacy for musing as to whether he might have a hint of fascism about him. As reported here, Rudy Giuliani inched closer to running for president today by filing a so-called "statement of candidacy" with the Federal Election Commission, indicating that he would seek the presidency as a Republican should he decide to go forward. Chris Matthews had Rudy supporter and former congresswoman Susan Molinari on as a guest. In the course of discussing the way in which Rudy managed to clean up NYC, Matthews and...

February 05, 2007 Rudy's Already Beginning To Finesse Abortion.... Here's what the real, non-hypothetical Rudy Giuliani said in South Carolina this weekend: "I have a very, very strong view that for this country to work, for our freedoms to be protected, judges have to interpret not invent the Constitution. Otherwise you end up, when judges invent the constitution, with your liberties being hurt. Because legislatures get to make those decisions and the legislature in South Carolina might make that decision one way and the legislature in California a different one." "And that’s part of our freedom and when that’s taken...

Rudy Giuliani's legacy is that he was the luckiest mayor we have had in a long time. He was blessed by being mayor when we had a great national upsurge in the economy. He was blessed by being mayor when we had a national downturn in crime. He was blessed because he had very little to do with either phenomenon in New York, but most New Yorkers and most tourists will think he did. Most celebrants of Rudy Giuliani seem mesmerized by the disappearance of the squeegee men. As I wrote in my book "Rudy," the issue of the squeegees...

Most of the speculation of who will be the next President focuses on senators, who almost always lose. This article examines some of the other potential nominees who have gotten less attention. Keep in mind that most presidential nominees were not among the most-discussed candidates two years before the election. Sonny Purdue is the most popular governor of any state with more than five electoral votes, and his overall approval ratings have taken off while he takes on more and more positions which drive Democratic voters nuts: reversing his Democratic predecessor's centralization of pedagogic education, refusing to allow aliens to...

The Conservative Case for Rudy Giuliani in 2008 John Hawkins of Right Wing News makes the conservative case against Rudy Giuliani for 2008. Hawkins’ piece largely consists of the same old anti-Rudy arguments wrapped in slightly new packaging, focusing a lot on Rudy’s decade-old socially liberal positions on a few cultural issues, as well as his Manhattanite personal life and some nonsense about unelectability (more on that later). As such, I think this is a great opportunity for someone to lay out the conservative case for Rudy in ‘08. And that someone might as well be me. Giuliani: Pro-growth tax-cutter...

WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani are America's top choices to run for president, but a new poll says the Democratic senator faces a tougher fight than the GOP ex-mayor in getting nominated. Giuliani and Clinton each are the first choice of 32 percent of their parties' voters, the survey by RT Strategies and the Cook Political Report found. But 49 percent of Democrats think Clinton can't win a general election. "That's a huge number," said pollster Tom Riehle, who explained he asked that question because Clinton's biggest barrier to winning the Democratic nomination is the wide belief in...

SNIP... Giuliani's national appeal has kept his at or near the top of the presidential-preference heap. Gallup found in June that 29 percent of registered Republicans surveyed favored him over Arizona Sen. John McCain, at 25 points, depsite claims that Giuliani is "too liberal" to play way off Broadway. Is leadership enough? Do Giuliani's policies help or hinder his political future? Could he become the Great Right Hope in 2008? To paraphrase Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York": If he can make it there, can he make it anywhere? SNIP....

The results of the latest GOP Bloggers straw poll are in. The poll was posted on the Red State homepage over the weekend, and first-choice results are as follows (full results with RS results in parentheses). Giuliani 24.6% (22.0%) Gingrich 21.1% (19.5%) Romney 12.8% (15.8%) Allen 11.5% (11.3%) Tancredo 6.7% (4.5%) McCain 6.4% (6.7%) Hagel 2.8% (3.3%) Brownback 2.5% (3.2%) Huckabee 1.5% (1.8%) Frist 1.1% (0.9%) Pataki 0.3% (0.3%)Read on... The Macaca incident has clearly devastated Allen’s numbers in the blogosphere, his stronghold. He used to have sky-high favorability, largely because he hadn’t done anything to offend anyone. He also...

Rasmussen Reports surveys of leading national political figures find that Al Gore is perceived as a bit more liberal by the voting public than either Bill or Hillary Clinton. In fact, public perceptions put the former vice president further to the left of center than President Bush is to the right. Note: The political center is calculated by subtracting the number of liberals from the number of conservatives among the general public (35% conservative, 18% liberal for a net +17). Two Republican presidential hopefuls—Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani—are fairly close to the nation's political...

1. Giuliani Leads McCain in Iowa Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has pulled well ahead of Sen. John McCain among Iowa Republicans likely to take part in the state’s early caucuses, a new poll reveals. In the survey by Victory Enterprises, Giuliani received support from 30 percent of Republicans expecting to attend the 2008 caucuses, which are scheduled to launch the 2008 Republican presidential nominating cycle. McCain was second at 17.3 percent. A similar Victory Enterprises survey a year ago had Giuliani and the senator from Arizona tied at 21.7 percent. Giuliani is viewed as favorable by two-thirds...

Can't post from the DesMoines Register so you can read the article here

August 18, 2006, 4:09 a.m. Can Giuliani Win the Southern GOP?They love him in South Carolina, but… By Byron York Charleston, S.C. — Rudy Giuliani could not have picked a better time to come to South Carolina. As the former New York mayor walked into Hibernian Hall here in Charleston Wednesday night, the foiled London terror plot, still unfolding, was on everyone’s mind. That, in turn, reminded everyone of September 11. And that reminded them of…Rudy Giuliani. And there he was. Giuliani had come to Charleston, and, earlier in the day, to Greenville, to raise money for Republican candidates...

John Nichols: Giuliani downplays support for gays By John Nichols, Aug. 20, 2006 Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani will be campaigning in Wisconsin for Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Green this week. Most Wisconsinites will not see Giuliani, as his appearance in Milwaukee will focus on raising money rather than engaging in a dialogue with the state's voters. In fact, to get close to the mayor who became something of a national icon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on his city, Wisconsinites will need to pay the Green campaign a $1,000 fee - er, campaign contribution. But Giuliani's...