Posted on 05/13/2007 3:38:27 AM PDT by dschapin
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“I do like him as a human being.”
I find it hard to personally like a duplicitous individual whose arrogance and conceit almost made him the most hated mayor in New York City before 9-11.
I don’t like liars and I don’t like serial polygamists and I don’t like people who try to subvert my constitutional rights.
Regardless of the journey, I think many will arrive at the same destination. Guiliani is not a candidate that any real conserative will embrace.
Well, they are close to dems so I would’nt be surprised if the vote for the other rat.
All of the above-he is a NYC elitist who doesn’t even know there is the “rest of the country.”
I’m a Texan living in NY state, and there are a number of people, particularly urban denizens, up here who couldn’t care less about the rest of the country and don’t know anything about the rest of the country. The funny thing about it is that that attitude pretty much stops once you cross the NY/PA stateline. I speak from personal experience.
As far as I’m concerned, NYC/boroughs, etc. should be converted to a fully owned, in perpetuity, colony of the US, something like Hong Kong was to the British. And, it should be made to pay through the nose for its privilege of being under the umbrella of the US. Therefore, it would receive some of the treatment, in kind, that it has dished out to the rest of the country, including the balance of NY State.
Flame away, Big Apple lovers!
Not only is Rudy wrecking his own reputation, his odd behavior is highlighting the “oddness” of pro-aborts in general.
“Yes, he’ll kill more of our babies, but he will really fight the war on terror!” (The state of the Rudybots on FR)
A very strange one: My wife turned out to be “allergic” to pregnancy. During the entire pregnancy she was extremely nauseous - unable to keep food down, etc. Apparently it was caused by her own hormones. Only some newly introduced (and expensive!) anti-nausea meds allowed her to carry to term; she was till miserably sick the entire time. If it had happened a little earlier...
Thank you very much for your reply and I am glad for your wife. I guess what I really want to know is, of all abortions performed in the US, what percentage is because of rape, incest, or health of the mother? My guess is the percentage is rather low.
Interesting — what I heard from the same interview was Giuliani again focusing on police tactics such as the PATRIOT Act, surveillance, etc., and calling that “being on the offense.” In reality, these are defensive tactics used domestically for the most part to try to prevent individual attacks. This is the very essence of swatting at flies — Giuliani proposes to take us back to treating terrorism as a crime and fighting it with police tactics. There was zero talk of draining the swamp and how he might strategically change the regions of the world that are breeding terrorists. Even when he was asked about Iraq, he discussed it mostly in the context of not wanting to announce a timetable for retreat.
This “fight terrorism primarily as a crime” approach isn’t surprising, since he has zero foreign policy experience and has spent his whole life in crime-fighting. But it’s exactly what we don’t need to effectively win the war on Islamofascists.
Yes, but the element of striking back with strength, instead of letting the enemy wonder if you will roll over and pee on yourself (like Clinton days). THAT was refreshing.
The more he flip-flops, the more he lies, and the more he blames subordinates for bad decisions he made while Mayor, the more he demonstrates how threadbare that suit actually is.
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