Giuliani Proud Not to Join Last-Minute Attacks

By: Ryan Corsaro
Topics: Rudy Giuliani

(CBS)

From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro:

MIAMI -- On primary day in Florida, Rudy Giuliani remained confident about staying out of the fighting between John McCain and Mitt Romney that has dominated the conversation of the political pundits in recent days.

"Not only are we proud we stayed on the positive message, we believe that's the positive message is the way to win this primary," said Giuliani. "It's the way to rise above all the anger."

Giuliani stopped for a light breakfast of raisin bran at the Rascal House restaurant in Miami this morning, shaking hands with voters and maintaining that he can still win Florida.

In the last two weeks, Giuliani has issued a tax cut proposal that was introduced by several of his endorsers (including Sen. Kit Bond, R-Missouri, and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.), called for a National Catastrophe Relief Fund to help states with the cost of natural disasters and terrorist attacks, and introduced his proposed one-page tax return form.

But talk of this was minimal over the airwaves, where the focus on Republicans has centered on John McCain and Mitt Romney's verbal attacks of one another. The latest has been each calling the other out for being more "liberal," and both appeared in interviews on news networks last night to continue the negative accusations.

Refusing to talk about his plan for the days following this evening's primary, Giuliani said his strategy for winning Florida was the only and best choice for his campaign. Despite sinking polls numbers in recent weeks, the Giuliani campaign is hoping their strategy of courting early voters in Florida before Romney, McCain and Huckabee began barnstorming through the state will have worked.

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by marinepatriot January 29, 2008 3:14 PM EST: Governor Huckabee is the best. The media bias that was given to candidates in lower positions than Huckabee has hurt him. Huckabee just finished SC getting 2nd by just 3% to Mccain. 33% to 30%. Romney got 12%. When you are #2 Nationwide, #2 in delegates, and #1 in most upcoming states you deserve appropriate media attention.

The dirty candidate still is funding groups to make negative charges against him and inventing mud.

The media as a whole said Huckabee was out of money, that he was pulling out of Florida, that he was not one of the front-runners, and all of that is just sad.

Governor Huckabee isn''t paying millions to the news stations, so they lie and say he is not doing good?

We know the truth. Today, the race is more about money than it is about the candidate. Our system is set up to elect the rich and their friends. Thats why our economy is hurting so bad right now.

While most of us are eating every single bite of our chicken, Romney is pealing the skin off and carfefuly eating the best cuts!; Reply to this comment


by forliberty January 29, 2008 1:39 PM EST: Rudy Giuliani''s political career is finished. You can''t win the Republican nomination as a conservative when you are clearly not a conservative. See "Rudy Giuliani''s Conservative Remake" at YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18FJZZk1i0Q; Reply to this comment