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Posted at 9:13pm on Jan. 28, 2008 Classic Rudy - 2004 Address to Republican Convention - Worth Another Look

By strange__guy

I'm proud to be a supporter of Rudy Giuliani in his quest to be President of this great country.

I would have to look back to the 70's to find a party so divided and to find a candidate that I believed in so strongly, although, to be honest I worked pretty hard for our current President as well.

As a member of the business community I respect those who under-promise and over-deliver, but I love those who promise much and yet still exceed your expectations. In a nutshell, that is the story of Rudy Giuliani and I have high expectations.

I've written before about the Mayor's interaction with my family in the aftermath of that beautiful September morning and it's profound effect upon us.

I'm sure I'm not the only one that has considered the fact that when America was attacked it was Rudy Giuliani that all of America looked to for answers that day, even John McCain, who was in hiding, "in order to preserve the functioning of the government" or some such nonsense. (But lets be grateful he came out of hiding to do the whole Amnesty thing with his good friend Teddy - The Swimmer - Kennedy, and to run for Pres)

I'm also proud to have grown up in NYC and to have personally seen how that great city was transformed under the leadership of a man to whom conservatism isn't a book on the shelf, but a method of governing and yes even the answer to many of the questions presented to government.

God Bless you Rudy, good luck tomorrow and no matter the outcome, you are a great American and an asset to our party, an now I'm proud to remind everyone of one of our Presidents leading cheerleaders in the last election cycle.

Remarks by The Honorable Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of the city of New York, as prepared for delivery at the 2004 Republican National Convention on Monday, Aug. 30, 2004:

Welcome to the capital of the world.

New York was the first capital of our great nation. It was here in 1789 in lower Manhattan that George Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States.

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Posted at 5:31pm on Jan. 1, 2008 Christmas is for.... Politics, or Big Trouble for Huckabee comes in Little Packages

By strange__guy

Mine is a political family and the holidays are a favorite time for the discussion of such things. Nothing like getting twenty to thirty of us together for good food, family, libations and some good finger pointing - table slapping discussions.

The tone this year was again a bit subdued as it's been the last couple of years, unless I personally get things going due to an ongoing illness that seems to be showing it's effects on me, but I'll be damned if I'm going to give up on living altogether and to me politics is like breathing, not something you have to think about, it's just something you do.

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Posted at 7:23pm on Sep. 30, 2007 The Rudy phone Call - in his own words

By strange__guy

In his own words...

From CBN, David Brody asks Rudy about the phone call that has so many scratching their heads... (video as well)

David Brody: I know there was some positive press from the cell phone call and there was some negative press. Do you care to clear that up?

Rudy Giuliani: Sure. My wife calls me when she gets on a plane. We'd just gotten back from England, hadn't had much sleep. I knew she was going to take a plane, but I didn't know which one she was going to take back to New York, and quite honestly since Sept. 11 most of the time when we get on a plane we talk to each other and just reaffirm the fact that we love each other.

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Posted at 7:24pm on Aug. 1, 2007 Rudy Giuliani - "worse than Bush" - but polling well in NH and Iowa

By strange__guy

Rudy Giuliani has recently been dubbed the "worse than Bush" candidate by some of the left's media arm in America.

Rolling Stone in June had an article called "Giuliani: Worse than Bush" and now in the August issue of Harper's is, "A Fate Worse Than Bush: Rudolph Giuliani and the Politics of Personality."

How is it possible that the leftist media can dare describe anyone in America as "worse than Bush" after the last six years of unending pessimism and attack politics? What is the motivation behind the attacks and who could have ever considered anyone could be "worse", in their eyes, than Bush?

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Posted at 5:32pm on Jul. 25, 2007 New WAPO Poll, Rudy Rocks

By strange__guy

In todays Washington Post the results of the latest WAPO/ABC show America's Mayor with a commanding lead over all rivals for the Republican nomination.

Tabbed Data

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll of the GOP field shows Giuliani with a sizable lead over his three principal rivals. The former mayor was the choice of 37 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, well ahead of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and former senator Fred D. Thompson (Tenn.). McCain and Thompson, who has not officially declared his candidacy, are virtually tied at 16 and 15 percent, respectively. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney came in fourth, with 8 percent.

This is despite Ron Paul's support surging 100% over the last poll conducted, his numbers, not mentioned above, jumped from 1% to an amazing 2% in just six weeks. It's unclear if Ron Paul's huge increase is due to Jim Gilmore exiting the race or if the same supporter was called twice by mistake. (if the mystery is solved I'll update) /snark

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Posted at 4:10pm on Jun. 21, 2007 UPI/Zogby Shocker - Americans Don't Like Immigration Bill

By strange__guy

In a poll of 8,300, with a MOE of 1.1% Americans say...

Some 56.4 percent of U.S. participants in a June 15-18 Zogby interactive poll view the bill either very unfavorably (39.9 percent) or somewhat unfavorably (16.5 percent). Another 29.6 percent said they were somewhat favorable about it and 8 percent gave very favorable as an answer.

A clear majority (57.5 percent) of Republican respondents and a plurality (45.6 percent) of those asked who said they were politically independent viewed the bill very unfavorably while a plurality (44.8 percent) of Democrats said they felt somewhat favorable to the measure.

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Posted at 12:23am on Jun. 15, 2007 Debate from the Senate floor on Immigration June 7, 2007

By strange__guy

Text of the floor debate as noted below, worth a read (Harry Reid is a sniveling worm).

No commentary, this is for context, I have cropped out some of the non germane sections ie: stem cell...

For all the folks knocking everyone associated with this bill, there are some that deserve it and some that don't.

Read this for democracy in action, too bad it's like a re-run where you already know what happens at the end, but some of the dialog is pretty compelling.

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Posted at 2:22pm on May 15, 2007 More Polling Data with Surprising Information on Presidential Preferences

By strange__guy

Would it surprise anyone that people would like Colin Powell to run for office? No, but would it surprise you that he polls higher than everyone but Rudy Giuliani in the latest Harris online poll conducted between May 3 through 10th, 2007?

Base: All adults

May Republican Democrat Independent
% % % %
Rudy Giuliani 30 58 14 29