Posted on 02/11/2007 11:29:10 AM PST by Clintonfatigued
In 1993 it became obvious that if Rudy was to avenge his narrow defeat for Mayor four years earlier, he would need more Democratic voters to cross party lines and support him. His campaign strategists knew I was disenchanted with the incumbent and put a full court press on me to meet with Giuliani. I was the elected head of the Democratic Party in a large Democratic district whose vote could be pivotal if it turned out for the
I met him and we talked for about an hour. He impressed me then as he does now with his intelligence, humor, and vision. I agreed to publicly support him, and shortly thereafter I stood on the steps of City Hall with Rudy in a far reaching press conference where the press corps did everything they could to dig up a nefarious motive for my sacrilege of becoming the first Democratic Party Leader to endorse Rudy. I felt then he was the best candidate for my city .Though I was a Democrat, and an unpaid Party official, I had to choose reason and conscience over Party. The “man bites dog twist” made for a good story and it was picked up by all the city papers, and went national when the Associated Press picked it up.
Read on . . .
Rudy won by a scant 60,000 votes with about a third of that number coming from my staunch Democratic district. On many occasions after that, he praised my political courage and occasionally stated that my support at that time launched his successful elected political career. For the next eight years, I served as Rudy’s (unsalaried) Personal Representative at three different City funded agencies. I got to know him, his public and private personae, his convictions, his strengths and his weaknesses.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
This makes a compelling case for supporting Rudy even if you don't agree with all of his stances. The article is filled with memorable quotes.
Good article!
I thought so. Maybe you could ping it to a few friends.
Rudy would make a great CIC.
Excerpt I like very much:
Rudy will not change his views on abortion or homosexuality. He won’t waffle, he won’t fudge with words, he won’t take a poll and then decide what he believes. If he were running for priest or rabbi, you might be justified in not voting for him. The man is running for President. The world is not a perfect one. We make decisions each day where we compromise to achieve the greater good. I believe him when he says he will choose Supreme Court Justices from the mold of Roberts and Alito. That suits me just fine.
I’m told and believe the debacle of a Democratic Congress supported by Republican appeasers happened because too many high minded Conservatives stayed home with a “plague on both your houses” mentality. Very nice to allow yourselves that luxury. What you did in no way gained you one step closer to preserving the lives of the unborn, on the contrary what was done brings us all one step closer to the Caliphate which is sworn to destroy us all!
One thing real political professionals understand when confronted with hard decisions is that being right does not always insure it’s the correct decision. I’ve used this phrase many times: “You’re right! So what:.”
You are right my fellow conservatives….So right and self righteous in fact that you would have “I was right!” put on our collective tombstones.
There was an attack on September 11th. We are at war. Civilization as we know it is on the line. Truthfully, how long must we wake up each morning and check the morning news to be sure all our cities are still in one piece and not obliterated .
Political pros ask one question before they make a commitment. .can he win? Rudy can win. He has evolved into a terrific candidate. I rode the 24 hour bus with him throughout the five boroughs of New York preceding the election. I watched him with latinos, blacks, Jews, Irish, Italians, and every other group. He brought stability to a city which was in chaos.
He is absolutely brilliant and articulate! He will make sense and he has the fortitude to stick to his convictions…even convictions we may not like. How refreshing in a world where every move is plotted by pollsters and focus groups. I am buoyed by his conviction to choose non activist judges. I was there when he threw Yassir Arafat out of a New York City function to the squeals of liberals and the U.N. I applaud that conviction.
I watched him tell the Prince of Saudi Arabia where he could stick his ten million dollar sympathy money after the murder of thousands of my city’s sons and daughters. I attended some of the funerals of the cops and fireman and emergency service workers , Rudy attended hundreds of them. God bless him for his conviction to comfort those families. He reformed the Welfare system in NY having the conviction that people could be trained to earn a living and achieve self respect.
This country needs a winner…The Republicans need a winner. By the accident of history, the winner is Rudy!
America, it may be our last chance!
Rockefeller Republicans show an amazing inability to learn from history. You don't win nationwide office running from the far left of the GOP.
I really like Rudy. I respect him and won't use derogatory terms toward him on the issues we disagree on. I can't, however, bring myself to support him in the primaries.
So in essence this article says.......if you are a Democrat, vote for Rudy.
Sounds about right to me.
Don't let the facts get in the way of your opinions. The GOP lost because it stopped acting like Republicans. The solution to that loss is NOT to nominate a guy who resembles a Repubican EVEN LESS.
There are NO VOTES to be gained leftward running as a pro-war candidate. Resistance to the war increases dramatically not very far into the moderate sector of the electorate.
And what will Rudy offer conservatives? Pro-choice. Pro-gay. Pro-gun-control. And pro-amnest.
The Rudy boosters like to call those who question Rudy's stances on these issues as "unappeasables."
But they are not asking for appeasement. They are demanding out-and-out capitulation.
Too bad they aren't backed up by Rudy's history of judicial appointments in NYC.
This is a new time....our world changed on 9-11-01.....I believe that most Americans recognize that the leadership Rudy displayed is what we need in the years ahead!
"There was an attack on September 11th. We are at war. Civilization as we know it is on the line. Truthfully, how long must we wake up each morning and check the morning news to be sure all our cities are still in one piece and not obliterated."
I loved this statement:
"... watched him tell the Prince of Saudi Arabia where he could stick his ten million dollar sympathy money after the murder of thousands of my city’s sons and daughters. I attended some of the funerals of the cops and fireman and emergency service workers , Rudy attended hundreds of them."
AND .. HILLARY NEVER ATTENDED ANY FUNERALS IN NYC .. isn't that correct!
As an aside .. didn't Rudy also walk a young lady down the isle to get married - because her father had been killed on 9/11 ..?? You need a big heart to do that!
The irony is anybody supporting Rudy because he is "electable". He isn't. To much of the base will sit home on election night if he is the nominee.
He may be your friend but he is my enemy. I do not like liberals.
"I really like Rudy. I respect him and won't use derogatory terms toward him on the issues we disagree on. I can't, however, bring myself to support him in the primaries."
Exactly how I feel.
Hmmm. Is that why Rudy pushed a corrupt crony for head of DHS, the most important anti-terror job in the land?
Seems like he didn't take it seriously.
Meanwhile, abortions did not stop after 9-11, and they kill as many Americans each day as who died on 9-11. Rudy is solidly pro-choice.
Illegals did not stop pouring over the border on 9-11, but Rudy supports Amnesty.
Criminals did not stop wishing to commit harm on Americans after 9-11, but Rudy opposes the right to armed self-defense.
I agree the world changed after 9-11.
I don't see that Rudy is the man to lead that changed world. Not one bit.
hmmm....the guy musta read an earlier post of mine..*gaffaw*
but it's true
Doogle
He's a good guy but I can't understand why a moderate discussion of his stance on issues seems to be so difficult on these Rudy threads. Some people vote on more than one issue.
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