Will You Vote For Him: Giuliani?

[ddthetide]

hillary=Satan!!
the clintons are out for the clintons, to hell with the rest of us.

[randallscott35]

Funny I was just watching Fox Cable news and they had a debate on whether Guil's liberal leanings would hurt him get the nomination....If Repubs had a brain they'd realize he had the most crossover appeal with Dems and Independents. DO they want to win, or send up a candidate that will get his head handed to him?

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

Funny I was just watching Fox Cable news and they had a debate on whether Guil's liberal leanings would hurt him get the nomination....If Repubs had a brain they'd realize he had the most crossover appeal with Dems and Independents. DO they want to win, or send up a candidate that will get his head handed to him?

They got this Conservative turd elected.They are gunna want to roll the dice again.What you're asking is do they want the "sure thing" (which I feel Rudy would probably be against Hillary,) or do they want to take their chances with a more Conservative candidate.Well, Idealogues don't think much.They look at somebody's views and compare them to the views of their own ideology,and then they react.It's like math(they add up the points etc.)If you have ever seen this Hannity guy on the Fake News Channel,then you would see the most obvious example(I have ever seen) of an Idealogue.Does Hannity support Rudy?

[GenuineRisk]

Guys, this is a really good article from Slate, by a New Yorker about Rudy. I really recommend reading it, as the writer discusses him pretty fairly, including the things he did well. PLEASE read this before casting your hypothetical votes. Plleeeeeeease. Most of you don't know the man other than what you saw after 9/11. And, (thankfully for all of us) most of being President does not involve 9/11s.

Having been through both the Giuliani and the Bloomberg mayorships, I can say unequivocally that Bloomberg is boring, has no star power and a really annoying voice, and is a much, much better mayor than Giuliani. Tough without the bombast, no interest in being the cover story and always willing to own up to his screw-ups (and he's made a few). Giuliani has skin thinner than rice paper and really can get petty- he fired his very effective police commisioner because he was mad that the police commisioner got more press than he did. I'm not kidding.

Anyway, here's the article. Please, non-New Yorkers, please read it. NYC'ers, you already know all this stuff about him, so if you still are planning to vote for him, well hey, at least you're casting an informed vote (assuming he winds up the candidate).

http://www.slate.com/id/2160285/

[GenuineRisk]

And not quite as balanced (okay, not balanced at all, but entertaining to read): letter writer to AndrewSullivan's site (from Feb 13):

<<A New Yorker writes:

It's very far out and lots of things can happen, but here are some initial thoughts about Rudy from a longtime New Yorker who witnessed firsthand what he did (and didn't do) for New York.

1. If you thought Bush was bad with cronyism, wait till this one gets in power. Remember the one protege of his he got into a high government office? Bernie Kerick? That's just the tip of the iceberg. Rudy runs a multimillion-dollar consulting firm whose essential mission is to profit off of 9/11. He's got his finger in a lot of military-industrial pies. If he gets in, watch for a DoD and a DoJ stuffed full of lackeys and yes-men.

2. If you think Bush is insular, wait till this one gets in power. When Rudy was mayor of New York, he absolutely refused to allow anyone around him who disagreed with him in the slightest. He publicly humiliated every Board of Ed president who uttered a peep against him. He rammed through three police commissioners before he found one who knew how to say "Yes, Rudy."

3. If you think Bush is a ham-handed diplomat, wait till this one gets in power. This is, after all, a man who led a personal crusade against hot-dog vendors. This is a man who criticized the parents of kids who got killed by cops for letting them out on the street past 10. This is a man who publicly lectured Arafat (which was sort of fun, but he *was* just a Mayor, not Pope Rudolfus IV). So if you've been entertained by Bush's excruciating gaffes internationally, you'll have 4 more years of fun.

and finally...

Do you honestly think that people will elect a man who wants to keep us in Iraq for four more years? Americans might vote for victory but they won't vote to throw money and lives away just so we can save face. Americans know (and you know, and I know) that "victory" just isn't possible in Iraq, just as it wasn't possible in Vietnam.

Oh, and then there's the fact that he's cavalier about torture, married his cousin, announced his divorce at a press conference, looks creepy and has all the personal warmth of Torquemada. >>

[randallscott35]

Rudy continues to smash the Republican opponents into the ground. His lead over McCain has nearly doubled in the past month. All aboard. He is going to be the next president.

[dellinger63]

well let a Chicagoan tell you a little about Obama.
His voting record while a State Senator is 'Present'. He either had no opinion or wasn't willing to go on record with it. His good friend Tony Rezco is currently under Federal Indictment. Tony incidently sold Obama the property adjacent to where his house sits right now at a greatly reduced price. Rezco then magicaly had other property rezoned and ercected a sweetheart condo deal. While this was a big story locally it has been swept under the rug nationally.
Meanwhile Hillary has just as much dirt locally. Her major Chicago fundraiser Jim Levin (a former strip-club owner and frequent visitor to the Lincoln bedroom) is awaiting sentencing for illegally billing the Chicago Public schools for plowing never completed. Guess it takes a village and not a plow to shovel snow.

I'll take Rudy and his wives etc over McCain anyday. My fear with McCain is we might get our first illegal alien cabinet member. I remember NYC in the Dinkins era. All dirty with bums in the streets and strip joints everywhere. The city is now beautiful and one of my favorite places in the U.S.