Rudy: “It’s playing out the way we thought”
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Jacksonville, FL — Despite falling polls and a shortage of campaign cash, Rudy Giuliani attempted to assure voters Monday that his strategy is “playing out the way we thought it would play out.”
The latest polls out Monday showed Giuliani trailing in his home state of New York to Sen. John McCain. Giuliani is down by 12 in a new Sienna poll after leading McCain by 33 points in December and is trailing the Arizona senator in his home state by 15 percent in the latest Marist poll.
The NY polls come on the heels of two other recent polls showing him also losing ground in New Jersey and Connecticut–two states his strategists referred to as “momentum-proof,” and fall in line with his fall in national polling.
Giuliani’s reaction to the polls: it’s all about Florida. “For us, it’s Florida. We’ll think about New York and California. We’ll think about Illinois. We’ll think about Missouri….we’ll think about everything on the morning of the 30th of January,” Giuliani said. “It’s playing out the way we thought it would play out. Now the most important thing is, we thought it would play out with us our winning Florida so that’s going to be an important thing for us to accomplish…it’s all about Florida.”
Hizzoner will make one stop in the West Palm Beach area Tuesday before returning to New York to raise some necessary campaign bucks. He has previously said that he is planning to spend “almost everything” on the Sunshine State primary.
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ITS FLORIDA STUPID.
The National Media (including FOX) never mentions that our turnout will be high because we have a property tax amendment on the ballot. The also have always loved McCain because they prefer HILLARY.
Now everyone seems to talk the “Supply Sider” talk, however Rudy’s resume includes 23 tax cuts for a total of 9 BILLION dollars in NYC (economy larger then 18 states) resulting in a INCREASE in revenue for the revitalized city.
If it was a job interview on Reagan style tax cuts who would you hire? If you don’t think he can be the front runner going into Super Tuesday you are under estimating us New Yorkers, just ask ELI MANNING!
New Yorkers don’t quit no matter what the Media tells us!
GO GIANTS GO RUDY SUPER BOWL TUESDAY IS COMING!
ITS FLORIDA STUPID!
The National Media (including FOX) never mentions that our turnout will be high because we have a property tax amendment on the ballot. The also have always loved McCain because they prefer HILLARY.
Now everyone seems to talk the “Supply Sider” talk, however Rudy’s resume includes 23 tax cuts for a total of 9 BILLION dollars in NYC (economy larger then 18 states) resulting in a INCREASE in revenue for the revitalized city.
If it was a job interview on Reagan style tax cuts who would you hire? If you don’t think he can be the front runner going into Super Tuesday you are under estimating us New Yorkers, just ask ELI MANNING!
New Yorkers don’t quit no matter what the Media tells us!
GO GIANTS GO RUDY SUPER BOWL TUESDAY IS COMING!
Mitt is hands down the best person for the job. I am so looking forward to his presidency. Watch out Washington, a true problem solver is headed your way and will cut through all the trash and waste to rebuild the way government works. The GOP is uniting behind him, make sure you all do too. He is the real deal, extremely sharp and successful in everything he does. His personal life also speaks volumes. Go Mitt!!!
Playing out like you thought?? you thought that you would lose to Mitt?????
Mitt Romney is the leader to FIX washington and our broken economy.
Romney in 08 and Beyond!!!!
Rudy’s brilliant and has the total package. I await with great anticipation to see the outcome of Florida. The other candidates pale in comparison. RUDY.
DB in Atlanta.
It will be interesting to see if Rudy can convincingly beat Ron Paul for once.
As a Rudy fan in Florida, I really hope he’s right.
Read everyone’s platforms. Paul is correct and Rudy Giuliani is the only true fiscal conservative in the bunch.
We need him in this coming garbage can of an economy…not McCain.
All the candidates are awful……OMG are we ever in deep do-do….one is worse than the other, McCain would be little Bush’s THIRD term if he wins. Romney is a Mormon and has the strangest of ideas. Rudy, rudy, rudy - nobody wants him, his track record is not good and when we speak of family values, moving in Judy Nathan to Gracie Mansion while Donna Hanover and the children were still living there reeks of NO FAMILY VALUES…..and the other side (democrats) is not much better. And Barak’s middle name is Hussein - frightening to me as president……
Lawdy, help us all in this country, or maybe it’s time for us to find a NEW country……
Uhh…this is a joke right? Rudy is getting beat by the supposed longshot Ron Paul. Doesn’t that automatically disqualify him. Rudy has no electability, sorry Rupert, just my face it.
Hey everybody, I was once the mayor of a city! And, while I was mayor, there was a terrorist attack on a building which happened to be in my city. This makes me extraordinarily qualified to run an entire country — can’t you see??
Nevermind my failed marriages, cross-dressing escapades, lack of national leadership experience, lack of foreign policy experience, and close ties to questionable people like ol’ Bernie K. Nevermind my commercials exploiting the heroic acts of WW2 by somehow linking them to 9/11.
Nevermind all that, but do mind that if you don’t vote for Rudy, well then terrorists will bomb your house and you will all die.
Here’s an idea… vote for someone who talks (concretely!) about issues that actually matter to Americans. If you make political decisions based on your fear… please do not exercise your right to vote. We do NOT need a “Fear President’ in 2008! We can’t afford to elect our next President on a platform of “Be very scared all the time, and let’s build a wall bigger than the Great Wall of China.”
As a New York republican, I’m convinced that Rudy is NOT the answer. No one’s got a perfect package, but MITT will get us the closest to where we should be. He has the best track record for showing that he can change Washington. Rudy can’t do it, McCain can’t do it. Ron Paul has some good ideas, but it’s not real. MITT is the best choice!!!
So let me guess, the Rudy Plan is a) lose the combover; b) lose first couple of primaries (and badly mind you); c) win the nomination?
Face it, the proxy candidate cannot win: http://politiporn.com/2008/01/21/first-the-bald-truth/
MITT ROMNEY is going to win Florida!
Rudy, Rudy, Rudy … just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse, another Moron wants to be President. George Bush has embarrassed this nation to the point of no return. He has made our nation even more vulnerable to terrorist, he has caused the death of thousands of innocent people, and he is the poorest excuse for a human being that there is. And now, Rudy, a similar idot wants to be trusted and granted the opportunity to inflict more shame and degradation on this nation. May God help us if this idot gets the nomination. My days of voting Republican are over !!!!
Nice play Rudy, continue the dilusion. You’ve ran a worse campaign than Thompson. Mitt is a flip-flopping hack, and there is no way his magic Mormon underpants are going to save him from the Clinton attack machine in the fall. They’ve managed to convince a load of ignoramouses that a half-white son of a Kansas WASP is a the product of a 40 year Muslim conspiracy to take over America. hahaha! Appearently the Hollywood writers are not on strike afterall.
Have some sense and vote for McCain, he can protect America and defeat Billary in the fall
I’ll be sad when Rudy drops out of the race after Florida. Even though he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance, He is a huge boon for the race for his entertainment value. Perhaps if he splinters off from the Republican Party and forms the 9/11 Tourette’s Party.
Rudy is the guy to beat
He can take on all the heat
This video says it all…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RRODJcPq_Js
The GOP lineup is sooo weak. Looking ahead in general election, McCain is probably the toughest candidate to stand up against any scrutiny in a general election. But he’ll give us more of what Bush is doing now (which of course is NOT what we want). McCain reminds me of Bob Dole. Romney the Mormon and the flip-flopper stands no chance. Giuliani is the biggest joke (yah he’s going to lose New York, big time). Huckabee is so far right, he won’t make it. And Thompson? Which Thompson?
To the more immediate concerns: Giuliani is so delusional. He thinks just by living the afterglow of 9/11 is going to carry him to the White House? He’s going to lose FL, and then what? McCain is going to win over the elderlies in Floria. Romney is going trump the economy and immigration, but mainstream won’t be ready for a Mormon. Huckabee will probably share some votes with McCain.
So…is that all GOP can offer in this election season?
Here is 5 good reasons Rudy should be the GOP nominee:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/rudy_giuliani_should_be_gop_no.html
I thought Fox news was the ”you decide” station. People are voting for Ron Paul over Guiliani. Yet no attention is given to the candidate who the people have obviously showed a preference for. Why?
I find it intersting that the posts on this board that are criticizing Mitt Romney do not mention issues, facts or records. They only hurl lies and insults about him and his religion.
Well, thank heavens that the majority of Americans are not close-minded bigots!!! As we have seen so far in this election process, where Mitt Romney is leading the pack in delegates, states won, and number of votes!
The more that people get to know about Romney’s governing record, his experience, his leadership, his ability to bring people together to fix problems, the way he’s lived his life, and his great family values and morals, the more they realize that he is the clear choice for Americans!
MITT ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT!!!!
ISSUES, FACTS AND RECORDS OF MITT ROMNEY:
It is becoming difficult for Mitt Romney to keep track of his twists and turns on the abortion issue. The photograph above shows Romney back in June 1994 during his first big political campaign, running against Sen. Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts. It was taken at a fund-raiser for the pro-abortion rights group, Planned Parenthood, in Cohasset, Mass. The woman with her back to Romney is Nicki Nichols Gamble, former president of the Massachusetts branch of Planned Parenthood, which accepted a $150 contribution from Romney’s wife Ann (in a white jacket to Romney’s right.)
The “pro-choice” candidate for senator, and later governor, of Massachusetts is now the “pro-life” candidate for president of the United States. His record as governor is controversial, however. Interviewed by Tim Russert on “Meet the Press” last Sunday, Romney claimed that he took a “pro-life” position on “every piece of legislation” that came before him. But that is untrue, at least by his present definition of what constitutes “life.”
The Facts
Romney announced his conversion to “pro-life” views in an editorial in the Boston Globe on July 25, 2005, the day after vetoing a bill expanding access to the so-called “morning after” pill, which required that it be made available to rape victims. See my detailed and updated chronology here. Abortion rights groups such as Planned Parenthood expressed shock at the governor’s change of heart, after he had personally signed a pledge to support increased access to the “morning after” pill. “Pro-Life” groups hailed the decision.
That was not the end of the story, however. The controversy over “emergency contraception” continued to haunt Romney. In October 2005, another bill came to his desk, seeking a federal waiver to expand the number of Massachusetts citizens eligible for family planning services, including the “morning after” pill. Romney signed that bill over the objections of his new anti-abortion allies. On this occasion, he was applauded by “pro-choice” advocates.
The issue came up yet again in December 2005. After weeks of agonizing, Romney instructed all hospitals in the state to comply with the terms of the emergency contraception law, and make the morning-after pill available to rape victims. He acted on the advice of his legal counsel, over the objections of half a dozen Catholic hospitals, which had previously refused to provide emergency contraception on the grounds that it conflicted with their religious views.
“Flip,flop,flip,” editorialized the Boston Herald, on December 9, 2005. “Yes, Gov. Mitt Romney has now executed an Olympic-caliber double flip-flop with a gold medal-performance twist-and-a-half on the issue of emergency contraception.”
Views on the acceptability of the “morning after” pill vary greatly, depending on exactly how you define “life.” Many “pro-life” advocates, including Romney, take the view that life begins at the moment when a female egg is fertilized by the male sperm. They are opposed to the “morning after” pill, because it can prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterus. “Pro-choice” groups argue that life begins much later.
Romney’s gyrations on abortion have upset both sides. “For Mitt Romney, this has been not just a flip-flop, but an extreme makeover,” said Angus McQuilken, vice president for public affairs with the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts. “Where he stands on any issue is always a moving target.”
“I don’t see how he can sign bills like that and say with a straight face that he is taking a pro-life position,” said Joseph M. Scheidler, founder of the Pro-Life Action League, which is opposed to all forms of abortion. “There’s no way we can accept that.”
Hunting for votes in critical New Hampshire, Romney told an NRA supporter at a campaign q&a during a campaign stop that he and hunting were like coffee and cream. “I purchased a gun when I was a young man. I’ve been a hunter pretty much all my life.” Whether that has an outright lie or a “weasel” (a term from Al Franken’s old Air America show he employed to describe a half truth meant to deceive), the word is out on Romney as someone who will say whatever he thinks it takes to get ahead– and ahead in this case means into the Oval Office. A DNC spokesperson summed it up well: “Whether he’s pretending to be a hunter, misleading people about loaning his campaign millions of dollars or signing a no-new-tax pledge he once mocked to hide his tax-raising record, he’ll say absolutely anything to distance himself from his real record.”
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This is why he is not the best candidate for the nomination, he will be beat up on all fronts, he cannot win against any democrat, think about that, he can’t even win in states he spent almost two years campaigning and millions of dollars, then where can he win? And going up against the money the dems have achieved, means that his money is less of a tool as it is against the likes of huckabee, mccain, thompson, and these guys still give him a run for his money and still beat him, so in my opinion, if he can’t win against other republicans when he has every advantage, then he is not going to even come close to winning the general election, anyone else would do better in the general election.
“It comes as no surprise that a presidential candidate who has so cravenly pandered to the right wing of his party by auctioning off his past would ask supporters to do the same,” said DNC spokesman Damien LaVera. “Unless smooth talking Mitt Romney was planning on recycling those old tax-raising, pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-immigrant, pro-gay rights, and pro-campaign finance reform positions in a general election, we thought we’d auction them off for charity.”
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McCain is an Old school politician… he playing up his “war hero” image… and everyone has seemed to forget about McCain-Feingold, the gang of 14 and his support for amnesty. Frankly his “Maverick” style worries me that I’ll have no clue where he’ll really wind up going with his policies. Plus, am I going to feel as good about whoever he picks as his VP (Lieberman??). Mitt Romney has actually impressed me as of late as an all around decent guy but he just lacks assertiveness. He’s almost to the point of being apologetic when he contrasts himself with others.
Rudy Giuliani is the only one who I see going out on a limb to propose real solutions in employing core Republican Ideals. Cut anti-competitive taxes, free-market solutions to health care and education, a strong defense and wisdom about foreign affairs. I’m a social moderate but I understand that social conservatives have a bone to pick with his anti-abortion but pro-choice position. But the guy has pledged constructionist judges, effectively making him anti-abortion and anti-choice. If you think that is a flip-flop then whats Mitt Romney? Rudy Giuliani has the passion and the fervor that this country so desperately needs to keep America Strong! VOTE RUDY 2008!!!
Bwahahaha. This is hilarious. I can so clearly see Rudy sitting before a camera, moving his fingers Monty Burns style: “Alllll according to plan Smithers.”
That said, I do think if Rudy does at all well in Florida, it could knock Romney’s momentum from under him, leaving this largely between McCain and….. who? The Republican field is such a mess. Honestly, after thinking McCain was done, seeing him do this well against favorites like Huckabee, Thompson, Rudy and Romney, I think he will end up taking the nomination.
Question is who will he pick as his VP?
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I find it very intriguing how volatile voters have been. So, almost half the potential Giuliani voters in New York have suddenly found out that McCain and Romney are better candidates just because they have done well in some small states such as Iowa, Wyoming and New Hampshire?
it always amazes me how the big news always overlooks romney. most delegates, most states, oh, couldnt POSSIBLY be him. lets face it. romney is winning. he has the best ideas, the most experience, and THE MOST VOTES. mccain doesnt have that. giuliani doesnt have that. it ges without saying that huckabee doesnt have that. i dont know about you all, but mitt gets my vote.
Rudy is the man. We need somebody who has actually had success at turning things around. I remember driving in to the city with my dad to go to Yankee games and being terrified as the squeegee guys would bombard your car. I always wondered if I would make out of the city alive. Rudy changed all of that when he became mayor. He reduced crime and made the city safe again. He also reduced the number of welfare recipients, and the city deficit. If he could do all that in NY city, the most liberal city in the country, think of what he could do as president. We need that same type of leadership now, more than ever!
Besides, Rudy is the only candidate that can defeat Barak or Clinton. Mr. Mono Tone (McCain) is like listening corpse and certainly doesn’t inspire people.
Romney Will tell you anything you want to hear to get elected.