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Apparently there are still some posters on FR who are fast asleep. Wake up! Dammit! We are in the middle of a conservative rebellion! While you were sleeping we, along with millions of other freedom loving grassroots Americans have participated in hundreds of tea parties all across this great land and fully intend to keep it up until all of America is awake. We are fed up and mad as hell! We grassroots Americans are delivering a message to the ruling class: NO MORE!! No more big government! No more high taxes! No more government bailouts! No more government takeovers!...

As a veteran actor, Fred Dalton Thompson knows something about entering a stage. It's all about the build up. The former Tennessee senator plans to announce his official entry into the Republican presidential contest on Thursday. But he'll pique interest first on Wednesday with an ad aired during a GOP presidential debate from New Hampshire that Thompson will otherwise skip. By then he will have taped an appearance on NBC's "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," which will air about an hour after the debate ends in many U.S. households. Come midnight, he'll post a 15-minute video announcement on his...

<p>August 23, 2007 -- A top ally to Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani yesterday blasted Fred Thompson for attacking the former mayor - and New York City - before even declaring his candidacy for president.</p> <p>"Run or keep your mouth shut!" snarled Guy Molinari, New York co-chairman for the Giuliani presidential campaign.</p>

Take a look at these two videos and let me know if Fox's coverage was truly "fair and balanced." Especially the clip focusing on his Gucci shoes.

Under abortion: He checked the box for: "Abortions should be legal in all circumstances as long as the procedure is completed within the first trimester of the pregnancy." He did, however, support a number of restrictions on abortion: requiring parental notification, allowing states to impose waiting periods, and eliminating all federal funding of abortion. Lastly, he said Congress should leave legislation on abortion to the states.

Rudy Giuliani could be the death knell of the Reagan Coalition, that successful alliance of economic, defense, and social conservatives forged in the 1976 Republican primary. In his insurgent campaign against President Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan built the architecture for a durable political coalition of supply-siders, budget hawks, Cold Warriors, law-and-order advocates, welfare reformers, pro-lifers, defenders of the Second Amendment, and others. He integrated these main elements of the post-war conservative intellectual movement into a successful, winning political juggernaut that was, until recently, the Republican Party. In recent years the social component of the coalition has been augmented by pro-family...

home : news : local news : top stories My opinion: Lawrence J. De Maria - On Rudy, Steve Forbes is right By: Lawrence J. De Maria 04/03/2007 email this storyEmail to a friendpost a commentPost a Commentprinter friendlyPrinter-friendly Western Civilization is fortunate that Winston Churchill did not have to face the idiocy of a modern American presidential campaign. He never would have gotten the chance to save it. One can imagine the naysayers: "The man who planned Gallipoli can't be trusted with our national security." Or, "he drinks too much." How about, "his mother had affairs and his father...

I may be on vacation but The Brody File is ALWAYS in research mode. Case in point: Fred Thompson. If you didn't know any better, you would think from all the press attention that Thompson was Ronald Reagan's long lost younger brother. The headlines scream "Fred Thompson" to the rescue." I'm not convinced...yet....that he's going to be the winning ticket for conservatives. He's conservative, yes but he backs campaign finance reform which is troublesome to conservative groups everywhere. And here's a quote from Thompson's past that you may not know about The issue of religious liberty hasn't been brought up...

Is Fred Thompson a member of the Church of Christ? As the 64-year-old former Tennessee senator reportedly mulls a bid for president, a number of readers have e-mailed The Christian Chronicle with that question. The 106th Congressional Record listed Thompson’s religious affiliation as “Church of Christ (Stone Campbell).” In an interview with the U.S. News and World Report this week, Thompson spokesman Mark Corallo said: “Thompson is indeed a Christian. He was baptized into the Church of Christ.” Corallo did not immediately return calls from the Chronicle seeking additional information about the politician and Law and Order actor’s religious background....

<p>COLMES: Now, on abortion — now, you are pro-choice, right?</p> <p>GIULIANI: Yes.</p> <p>COLMES: You're a pro-choice Republican.</p> <p>GIULIANI: I am.</p> <p>COLMES: There's some questions to whether, you know, Roe vs. Wade (search). He made one statement as solicitor general and deputy solicitor general and saying that it should be overturned, Roe v. Wade. None of — go ahead.</p>

“But we are not a country moving in the wrong direction or sliding down hill. The truth is we are the strongest country on earth, the strongest military power without a rival, the strongest economy on earth. The strongest democracy on earth. You have more freedom than anyone has ever had. No one has ever had more freedom than Americans. This is the greatest country in the world and the greatest country the world has ever known. We must be proud of that. We must solve our problems based on our understanding strengths, not our weaknesses.” Giuliani says that intelligent...

Giuliani top pick at Dorchester Convention Republicans select former New York mayor as choice for president at annual Seaside conference SEASIDE (AP) - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's presidential bid looks like it's picking up steam in Oregon. Giuliani easily won a straw poll Sunday taken among delegates to the Dorchester Convention, an annual gathering of influential Oregon Republicans. He picked up 60 votes from attendees, nearly twice that of his closest competitor, former Georgia Rep. Newt Gingrich, who finished with 35 votes. Among the other marquee candidates, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who has received endorsements from Oregon...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBtPIrEleM Thanks to Nsmje Please remove thread if this has already posted.

Recently, My GOP wrote a BRILLIANT post about the REAL Rudy Giuliani and his record. It is MUST READING for most of the anti-Giuliani Kool-Aid-Drinkers around here who are going off half-cocked without knowing the FACTS.So I am taking the liberty of reproducing My Gop's post here in full: I just can’t understand why so many are making Rudy look more liberal than he really is on social issues and why they refuse to acknowledge he is a conservative on just about every non-social issue and I certainly can’t understand how social issues are more important than all the other...

In a move to increase its relevance in the presidential selection process, the Golden State is set to jump up its primary from June of 2008 to February 5th, less than a year away. This may benefit New York's presidential aspirants, and especially its Republican one. Last week I noted Giuliani's electric support at the California Republican Party convention. A recent poll has resoundingly brought forth the same message. This morning, the Wall Street Journal's John Fund notes the following numbers: With California moving its presidential primary to Feb. 5 of next year, what Golden State voters think about White...

Daniel Weintraub, the respected Sacramento Bee political columnist, says it is looking more and more as if former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani can win the GOP presidential nomination. Writes Weintraub: Only a few months ago, conventional wisdom throughout much of the political world was that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani might make a competitive Republican candidate for president in a general election, but he could never win his party's nomination because conservative primary voters would reject him. Now, suddenly, that wisdom seems to have shifted, and as Giuliani trouped through California last week, he was wowing conservatives with his...