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WATERTOWN, N.Y. — On a Sunday evening conference call with conservative bloggers — where he was joined by former Dede Scozzafava campaign manager Matt Burns — Rob Ryan, spokesman for NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, said that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani had recorded a robocall for the campaign. That makes Giuliani one of the small number of Hoffman endorsers to put deeds behind his words, joining former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and former New York Gov. George Pataki, who’d appeared in the district, as well as Fred Thompson, who is speaking at the campaign’s last big...

Here is video of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani talking about what he would do to improve Health Care in America. He was first asked about the economy and said that if he were Governor of New York or President, he would cut the Capital Gains Tax to stimulate business activity. He would reduce expenses for businesses to give them room to operate. Giuliani said there is "a point of diminishing returns with taxes." You can only tax so much before you actually begin to lose revenue rather than increase revenue. Giuliani said what Obama is trying to do...

Here is video of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani talking to CNN's Campbell Brown last night about a range of political topics, including President Obama and his performance to date. Giuliani said Obama has been much further to the Left than he thought on domestic issues, but feels he has been more centrist on his Foreign Policy. Giuliani believes Obama may have been right to not get too involved in the protests in Iran against the regime of Ahmadinejad. Giuliani also talked about the whole Henry Gates arrest controversy. Giuliani avoided a question about what he thinks about Glenn...

Here is video of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani being interviewed by CNN's Wolf Blitzer yesterday. Giuliani said he believes the Obama Presidency "is much worse than I thought." Giuliani talked about the drive for Government Health Care, and also said he did not agree with the legislation defeated yesterday that would have allowed concealed weapons to be carried across state lines. He believes that should be determined by State and Local governments. Giuliani believes that Obama's massive spending is "catastrophic" for America's future. . . . . . (Watch Video)

I've been hearing that some groups of people are not welcome at Free Republic anymore, but I didn't believe what I was hearing because that seems like the complete opposite of "Free". I've heard that supporters of Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, and more are no longer welcome to post at this site. This site is about uniting people together against the liberal onslaught that is ruining our country and we could use all the help we can get right? Please correct me so I can correct others who have told me that this is...

Chris Collins NEW YORK Republicans are eyeing a dynamic but little- known upstate businessman and elected official to run for governor next year if Rudy Giuliani declines, The Post has learned. GOP leaders say Erie County Executive Chris Collins, a wealthy, charismatic, conservative-oriented entrepreneur and government reformer is interested. Collins, who won a surprising landslide victory in the heavily Democratic county in 2007, would make a great candidate, they say. "He recently came to see me, and I came away sure he was interested in running for governor," former US Sen. Alfonse D'Amato told The Post. "I think he'd be...

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat, is trailing GOP front-runner former Republican U.S. Attorney Chris Christie in two polls out today. According to a Quinnipiac University poll, Corzine is trailing Christie, 45%-38% in a head to head match-up. While Corzine ties at 41% with Steve Lonegan, former mayor of Bogota, N.J. (pop. 8,200). Further, voters disapprove of Corzine 54%-37%–the highest disapproval ever recorded for a Garden State governor. A Strategic Vision poll similarly registered a 54%-36% disapproval rating for the governor. Corzine also trails Christie in a head to head match-up, 47%-36%, although the governor leads Lonegon, 44%-39%. The...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York Republicans are completely out of power for the first time in four decades. Democrats rule the executive and legislative branches and hold 26 of the state's 29 congressional seats. On the fringes of this grim political tableau hovers a larger-than-life figure who won worldwide acclaim after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Rudy Giuliani, considered the GOP's best chance for redemption, has a new nickname: Rudy the Savior...

Former mayor Rudy Giuliani urged President Obama and others to go slow on cracking down on Wall Street bonuses because they help boost New York City coffers. "If you somehow take that bonus out of the economy, it really will create unemployment," the former two-term mayor said Friday. "It means less spending in restaurants, less spending in department stores, so everything has an impact." Giuliani noted he gauged the city's budget by the size of Wall Street bonuses. "Wall Street has $1 billion, $2 billion in bonuses, the city had a deficit," he said on CNN's "American Morning." "Wall Street...

LOS ANGELES - Former Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano and his entertainment lawyer co-defendant were convicted Friday of charges linked to the wiretapping of billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian’s former wife in a child support battle. Pellicano and attorney Terry Christensen were each convicted of conspiracy to commit wiretapping. Pellicano was also convicted of wiretapping and Christensen was convicted of aiding and abetting a wiretap. “We are disappointed, think the jury is wrong, and we will be appealing,” said Patricia Glaser, Christensen’s attorney and law partner.

When the news broke that Fred Thompson would be taking over Bill O'Reilly's radio spot, FredHeads cheered. It was reported that Rudy Giuliani was in negotiations for the gig as well. Rudy may give the SoCons fits, but on fiscal conservatism, taxes, and national security, he is one of the best. He also doesn't take any crap from anyone, especially liberals. And Rudy is no stranger to radio, having hosted a weekly call-in show back in the 1990's. Had he beaten out Thompson for the job, we may have been treated to some great, snarky stuff like this. More ....

Giuliani appears to be in a decent position to grab a new job in two years. The question is, does he want to be Governor or Senator? More . . .

Tom Brokaw using Democrat Party talking points makes an attempt to ambush Rudy Giuliani with an assortment of Democrat talking points used previously by other Democrat Party operatives. Further exposing the lame attempts by Obama sympathizers. An effort to aid the sinking Obama Presidential campaign.

How distasteful was Donna Brazile's line about Jesus being a community organizer and Pontius Pilate a governor for purposes of making an invidious comparison between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin? Enough that even ardent Obama-phile Chris Matthews rapped Dem congressman Steve Cohen's knuckles for repeating it on the House floor. But, incredibly, when Rudolph Giuliani appeared on Meet the Press today, Tom Brokaw used the same line to confront Rudy over comments in his GOP convention speech about Obama's community organizing. Brokaw went so far as to display a button [screencap after jump] bearing the phrase. Brokaw might just as...

Video link to Rudy Giuliani RNC speech Due to Rudy's adlibbing, posting the transcript of his speech doesn't do it justice.

Former Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani will speak at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., FOX News confirmed Thursday. The former New York City mayor is scheduled to make a primetime address on Sept. 2 — the second night of the convention.

BUT WILL THEY RESPECT HIM IN THE MORNING?July 23, 2008 Back before the Republican Party was saddled with John McCain as its nominee, The New York Times called him "the only Republican who promises to end the George Bush style of governing from and on behalf of a small, angry fringe." The paper praised him for "working across the aisle to develop sound bipartisan legislation" and predicted that he would appeal to "a broader range of Americans than the rest of the Republican field." At the same time, the Times denounced "the real" Rudy Giuliani as "a narrow, obsessively secretive,...

Rudy Giuliani is launching a new fund-raising committee to dole out cash to New York GOP candidates - a move that could help him collect political chits as he weighs a run for governor, The Post has learned. It's the first major political move by the former mayor since his run for president flamed out in January. The Giuliani camp is expected to announce the creation of the committee as early as Monday. The same day, he'll hold a small fund-raiser at the Grand Havana Room on Fifth Avenue for his existing federal political action committee, Solutions America. Sources close...

The Michelle Obama Rant Tape was filmed between June 26th - July 1st 2004 in Chicago, IL at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference at Trinity United Church: specifically the Women's Event. Michelle Obama appeared as a panelist alongside Mrs. Khadijah Farrakhan and Mrs. James Meeks. Bill Clinton spoke during the Conference, as did Bill Cosby and other speakers, but not at the panel Michelle attended. Michelle Obama spoke at the Women's Event, but referenced Bill Clinton in her rant --- his presence at the conference was the impetus for her raving, it seems. For about 30 minutes, Michelle Obama launched into...

GIULIANI WEIGHING 'SPECIAL' RUN FOR GOVBy MAGGIE HABERMAN March 28, 2008 -- In the latest twist in New York politics, Rudy Giuliani is eyeing a run for governor in a special election this fall should Gov. Paterson be forced to resign, sources say. A top adviser to the former mayor, who pulled the plug on his presidential bid in January, yesterday dangled the possibility of Giuliani's running in a special election. It would happen in a year in which presidential nominee John McCain would be at the top of the GOP ticket. The Post reported this week that state lawmakers...

I am not on the inside of any presidential campaign, but I consider myself to be a good student of politics. And as a writer, I have the luxury of going against the grain on campaigns and issues. I am also not a Republican—so I don´t expect the leaders of the Grand Old Party to take my advice. But as a political writer, I have an obligation to inform, and hopefully entertain my readers. And plenty of readers will find the idea of a McCain-Giuliani ticket entertaining, if nothing else. It´s no news that John McCain has locked up the...

Gov. Rick Perry is strongly urging Mike Huckabee to drop his Republican presidential bid. Mr. Perry told a Washington, D.C., TV station last week, "It's over for the Republican nomination. And I respect Mike, but it's time for us as a party to get behind Senator [John] McCain," who has an overwhelming delegate lead and is close to securing the GOP nod. Mr. Perry has called Mr. Huckabee urging that he drop out of the race, but the comments are the first time he has done so publicly. Mr. Huckabee has expressed confidence that he can win Texas' March 4...

What is it with these New Yorkers running for president? First, Rudy Giuliani pins his entire presidential bid on a late-voting, big-state strategy and flames out in Florida before the first flicker of fire. Now, Hillary Rodham Clinton might as well be stealing pages from Giuliani's laughingstock playbook - and she looks headed for the same demise.

The pundits are absolutely stunned. The man they months ago decided would be the Republican nominee is, um, not. Now they are writing columns and editorials and articles about how the man who had it locked up could so quickly give it up. They are shocked. Well, I am not so shocked. Even when the pundits, the polls and the political markets showed Rudy Giuliani on top, it was obvious that he would not get elected – either in the primary or in the general. The few of us who saw Giuliani going nowhere were not geniuses or psychics, we...

Voters in New Jersey who cast absentee ballots for a candidate who has dropped out of the presidential race can vote again, a judge has ruled. The decision, which was issued on Thursday by Judge Vincent J. Grasso of Superior Court in Ocean County, dealt specifically with the county clerk there but has bearing statewide, according to the attorney general’s office. The ballot for Tuesday’s presidential primary was printed about a month ago, before six of the candidates dropped out of their respective races. Four Democrats — Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, former Senator John Edwards of North...

Debate among the GOP presidential contenders. Live at 9:00pm EST/8:00 CST

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — A number of prominent Texas Republicans, including Gov. Rick Perry, gambled substantial political capital and financial support on the presidential campaign of Rudy Giuliani. Now with Giuliani's disappointing showing in Florida's Republican primary Tuesday night and the possibility that he could quit the race, the Texans are faced with a choice: either stick with Giuilani or look for a better bet. On Tuesday, two Giuliani supporters — Sugar Land Mayor David Wallace and Stephen Payne, a Houston fundraiser for George W. Bush's campaigns — said they would throw their support to Arizona Sen. John McCain if...

9:53PM - Add Senator Mel Martinez to the list of winners tonight. He looks a lot better backing a winning presidential candidate than he does stepping down prematurely as chair of the RNC. - REID WILSON 9:46PM - The other big winner tonight? Gov. Charlie Crist. From the St. Petersburg Times today on the Crist endorsement: "For Crist, the move is a risky one, but one with a big payoff if it makes him look like a kingmaker." - BLAKE DVORAK 9:42PM - Giuliani dropping out helps McCain, right? Well, not so fast. According to the exit polls, 49% of...

(CNN) — Rudy Giuliani will endorse John McCain Wednesday, two GOP sources familiar with the discussions told CNN Tuesday. McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, had been in "ongoing discussions" with Rudy Giuliani's campaign about the former New York mayor ending his run and endorsing McCain's candidacy, according to a GOP official familiar with talks. CNN projected that Arizona Sen. McCain would win the Florida GOP primary Tuesday night, beating former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, with Giuliani in a tight race for third with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

Now that the Sunshine has set, two old friends come to an understanding. McCain topper Rick Davis quietly negotiated the agreement. HALPERIN’S TAKE: 10 things Giuliani could have done differently. Giuliani, in Florida concession speech, talked about his effort in the past tense, but said nothing explicit about dropping out — or The Deal.

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A political funeral service for Rudolph Giuliani, former New York mayor and Republican presidential candidate, will be held Tuesday January 29th at the McCain News Channel (former Fox News Channel) and other media outlets. The service will begin at 8pm on all channels, with exit polling viewing prior to the service. Officiating at the interfaith service will be Rabbi William Kristol, the Right Reverend Fred Barnes and Pastor Juan Williams of the Hillary Clinton Worship Center. Interment of Mr. Giuliani will be at the Christopher Matthews Mausoleum of the John Sidney McCain Cemetery. The Krauthammer-Kondracke Funeral Directors are assisting in...

"We're coming in first here," he said. Asked if he is conservative enough to convince the conservative electorate of Florida voting in a Republican-only primary on Tuesday, he demurred to state Attorney General Bill McCollum. "He's conservative enough — and there's nobody more conservative in Florida than Bill McCollum," the former congressman said. "He is a Ronald Reagan disciple, I really believe that."... "I believe I combine the two things that they're talking about. One is pointing to the other and saying, 'You don't know enough about the economy.' The other is pointing at the first one and saying, 'You...

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- "We have them lulled into a false sense of security," Rudy Giuliani joked about his rivals at Thursday's Republican debate here in south Florida. Was anyone really laughing? The former New York mayor's rapid descent after leading national Republican polls for most of 2007 is one more remarkable chapter in the story of Campaign 2008. In the space of 12 months he has gone from improbable candidate to unlikely nominee to surprise front-runner to a man now left to joke about becoming the Comeback Kid of this campaign. Giuliani long counted on Florida to begin his...

MIAMI -- Rudy Giuliani says that a vote for opponents John McCain and Mitt Romney will meaning voting to go without a National Catastrophic Relief Fund. Speaking outside of a rally of over a hundred Cuban Americans, Giuliani told reporters, “I am for the National Catastrophic Fund. John McCain is against the National Catastrophic Fund and Mitt Romney seems to be for it and against it, so it’s hard to know what his position is.” At a time when undecided voters in Florida are coming to a decision on which candidate they favor, Giuliani is focusing on the needs of...

BOCA RATON, Fla. - Could the millions of New Yorkers who have moved away to Florida and other states over the years save Rudy Giuliani's sinking presidential hopes? And even if they could, would they? Those questions have emerged with some urgency in the wake of recent polls showing Giuliani's popularity slipping among Republicans here and nationally, leaving him badly in need of a jump-start with a win in Florida's primary on Tuesday. Read more

As soon as Fred Thompson announced he was dropping out of the GOP race, friends, acquaintances and total strangers started trying to win Thompson supporter Rick Moran over to McCain, Huck, Romney or Rudy. Who will he and his fellow depressed Fredheads turn to for their second choice? Less than 10 minutes after Fred Thompson’s announcement that he was dropping out of the Republican presidential race hit the wires, one of my good internet friends IM’d me. FRIEND: Sorry to hear about Fred. Gd mn. (Good man) ME: SUCKS THE BIG ONE FRIEND: He wll b missed. ME: IT REALLY,...

An e-mail, for what it's worth: K-Lo: The Mason Dixon numbers make sense based on what I am hearing anecdotally down here from other conservatives in Florida. Fred was the consensus first choice, followed by Romney, and then distantly Rudy, McCain, and then Huckabee. With Fred out, virtually everyone I've spoken to is shifting their support down to Mitt. A lot of wishful sentiments for a Romney/Thompson ticket as well. Thanks for all that you guys do.

Steven Stark lays out a scenario whereby all the other candidates, none of whom have wholehearted Republican support, cancel each other out, paving the way for Fred Thompson to receive the nomination at the convention. "When conventions deadlock, history teaches us that yesterday's disappointments become tomorrow's stars. If McCain can't stampede to the nomination and Super Tuesday doesn't produce another clear front-runner, we may not have heard the last of Fred..." I find the idea highly unlikely, though appealing...but stranger things have happened. Whoever would have thought the 2000 election wouldn't be decided for 36 days?

A far as legal-brained firepower goes, the chief beneficiary of Fred Thompson’s decision to pull out of the presidential race is Mitt Romney. The Romney campaign Thursday announced that a host of conservative lawyers_and_scholars who were backing Thompson have joined the Romney camp. Among them is Victoria Toensing, who made her mark as an anti-terrorism_policy-maker at the Justice Department during the Reagan administration. Toensing is joined by her husband (and fellow regular on the cable news circuit) Joseph diGenova, the former U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. To date, Romney’s conservative legal cabal has been notable for the presence of Catholic_scholars...

Rudy Giuliani may have made a great mistake by not campaigning in New Hampshire, Nevada, Iowa and South Carolina. But between Rudy Giuliani (and, for that matter, Mitt Romney) on the one hand and John McCain on the other, there is little question as to who more embodies mainstream conservative and Republican principles. But Giuliani is not merely more of a conservative than John McCain. In fact, if it is Ronald Reagan that Republicans want, Giuliani is extraordinarily close to that venerated man. Ronald Reagan stood for two great beliefs: that big government is a big problem for a free...

George Will recently argued that it will be hard for Republicans to win in the general election. Frank Rich reiterated the point Sunday morning. Looking at the (relatively low) turnout on Saturday and other factors… is that so? In the wake of the South Carolina primary this weekend, National Review Online asked a group of pollsters and others. David Freddoso Democrats are overconfident about the presidential election of 2008. As we saw in 1988, high turnout in the Democratic nominating process does not necessarily presage anything. If the Democratic candidate is Hillary Clinton, then Republicans can certainly win the presidency....

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds Mitt Romney with a slight lead in Florida’s Republican Presidential Primary. John McCain and Rudy Giuliani are close behind in what may develop into a three-man race. It’s Romney at 25%, McCain at 20%, and Giuliani at 19%. Romney has picked up seven points over the past week while McCain and Giuliani each inched up a point. Last week, before the Michigan and South Carolina Primaries, Rasmussen Reports polling found essentially a four-way tie for the lead in Florida. However, Mike Huckabee has slipped to 13% in the current poll. A week ago,...

CONTEMPLATING the Clinton-Obama racial war, some Republicans were so excited you’d have thought Ronald Reagan had risen from the dead to slap around a welfare deadbeat. Never mind that the G.O.P. is running on empty, with no ideas beyond the incessant repetition of Reagan’s name. A battle over race-and-gender identity politics among the Democrats, with its acrid scent from the 1960s, might be just the spark for a Republican comeback. (As long as the G.O.P.’s own identity politics, over religion, don’t flare up.) Alas, these hopes faded on Tuesday night. First, the debating Democrats declared a truce, however fragile, in...

MIAMI- Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida has decided not to endorse Republican presidential hopeful Arizona Sen. John McCain. McCain was planning to campaign Monday in Miami with Martinez to help woo Hispanic voters,The Miami Herald reported Sunday. A factor in Martinez's decision to withhold his endorsement of McCain's candidacy is that he feels badly for McCain rival, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was a Martinez supporter and had expected his backing in return, the newspaper reported. McCain supporters had been told by the campaign late last week that Martinez was coming to stump with the Arizona senator. But,...

I said go for Fred in South Carolina because I wanted to give Thompson a chance to mix this race up. But Fred fell short now and the main concern of mine is to beat McCain. There's a media orgasm-coronation going on right now and we have to have straight heads to stop it. Lets not infight and let trolls lead us atray. Here's a serious look at how to defeat a man who's a virtual Democrat and a traitor to the conservative cause in this country. McCain-Feingold made the First Amendment into toilet paper. The law was designed to...

Mike Huckabee has pulled a neat trick.His appeal so far has been limited exclusively to evangelicals, yet the press has taken him seriously as a new populist force in the Republican Party who could at any moment "break out" to appeal to_lower-income voters. Who knew a candidate of Christian identity politics would be afforded such respect? But Huckabee has managed it, which is one reason why he should open a strategic-communications firm the day after he leaves the presidential race. The ability to gull analysts into making so much from so little is a rare and potentially lucrative talent. Huckabee...

THE ISSUE Republicans have three different winners POINTS OF DEBATE None of the Republican candidates save for Ron Paul and Fred Thompson offer anything resembling freemarket conservatism THE STAR’S VIEW It’s no wonder Republicans are having a hard time settling on a candidate Republican voters are having a hard time settling on presidential candidates, now that the party has three separate winners after its first three major primaries. In Michigan on Tuesday, Republican Mitt Romney salvaged his political campaign, which had been withering following losses in New Hampshire and Iowa. Arizona Sen. John McCain failed to attract the significant numbers...

WASHINGTON -- The Republican presidential race is so unsettled that some party officials are openly talking of a scenario that seemed almost unthinkable until now: the first contested GOP convention in 60 years. Even if Republicans choose a nominee before they convene in Minneapolis-St. Paul on Sept. 1, there's a good possibility he will emerge weeks or even months after the Democratic nominee is chosen, giving Democrats an advantage in fundraising, organizing and campaigning. Congressional Republicans particularly wanted an early nominee to draw voters' attention from President Bush, whose low approval ratings could hurt the entire party in the fall....

As we move on to South Carolina team Thompson is doing something a little different and fun. They are putting up a fun set of videos from their tour down there. They are getting video snapshots of folks who have flipped to Fred from other Candidates. Here is Riley, who flipped from Romney to Fred. Karen flips from Romney to Fred: Ann flips from Huckabee to Thompson: Jason goes from Romney to Fred: Well you get the idea. There is plenty more here. Meanwhile Fred layed the smackdown on the field on Fox News last night. So much so that...