NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2006
McCain Vs. Giuliani: Tale Of The Tape
How The Top 2 GOP Contenders For The White House Stack Up
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GOP Hopefuls Line Up For '08
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2008 Republican Hopefuls
McCain and Giuliani head up the Republican pack chasing the presidency.
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Clinton, Obama and Edwards lead the chase for the Democratic nomination.
It's still 14 months before the Iowa caucuses, but already two heavyweight contenders have emerged in the 2008 Republican presidential battle: Sen. John McCain and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Recent polls by USA Today/Gallup and CNN put the pair far ahead of the Republican pack, with Giuliani holding a two-point lead over McCain. Polls also show the two men in a dead heat with the apparent Democratic frontrunner, Hillary Clinton.
Of course, there's a long, long way to go until the primaries and serious obstacles remain in both men's paths, chiefly their ability to appeal to the conservative wing of the GOP.
Also, there are plenty of other GOP wannabes out there, but none can match McCain and Giuliani when it comes to national name recognition, fundraising ability or star quality. And until one of those contenders emerges from the pack, it looks like a mano a mano between the "maverick" senator from Arizona and the New Yorker dubbed "America's mayor."
Here, then, a primer on the two early Republican frontrunners we'll no doubt be learning a lot more about in the months ahead:
John S. McCain III
Born: Aug. 29, 1936 in Panama Canal Zone, Panama
Rudolph W. "Rudy" Giuliani
Born: May 28, 1944, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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See all 53 Commentssends one hell of a message to the american voters!
I'm still trying to figure out why Guiliani is a hero and a leader. What would any mayor have done on 9/11? I guess the fact he didn't book the first flight to the Bahamas is a sign of leadership. Everything Bush and Guiliani promised the New York firefighters was later retracted.
These clowns better save their money until Jeb Bush decides whether or not he wants the title: he has first rights of refusal, and he'll campaign for the evangelist vote and the far right conservative base that was supposedly abandoned. His coked out daughter and drunken son will campaign with him through the "family value" states. That's a sure fire win with the bible belt.
Oh, and marodele, I hope you are kidding about Jeb, otherwise you're an idiot. Scroll up and notice the section called "Bush Factor". AKA how much of a liability Bush's unpopularity will be for each candidate. JEB SHARES HIS LAST NAME! You can 't get more Bush factor than that. Although I think Jeb is an idiot, I don't think he is stupid enough to actually run.
Oh, and marodele, I hope you are kidding about Jeb, otherwise you're an idiot. Scroll up and notice the section called "Bush Factor". AKA how much of a liability Bush's unpopularity will be for each candidate. JEB SHARES HIS LAST NAME! You can 't get more Bush factor than that. Although I think Jeb is an idiot, I don't think he is stupid enough to actually run.
Oh, and marodele, I hope you are kidding about Jeb, otherwise you're an idiot. Scroll up and notice the section called "Bush Factor". AKA how much o
f a liability Bush's unpopularity will be for each candidate. JEB SHARES HIS LAST NAME! You can 't get more Bush factor than that. Although I think Jeb is an idiot, I don't think he is stupid enough to actually run.
Oh, and marodele, I hope you are kidding about Jeb, otherwise you're an idiot. Scroll up and notice the section called "Bush Factor". AKA how much of a liability Bush's unpopularity will be for each candidate. JEB SHARES HIS LAST NAME! You can 't get more Bush factor than that. Although I think Jeb is an idiot, I don't think he is stupid enough to actually run.
The foolish media for the last 5 days has been pushing this idea that the Democrats are already fighting amongst each other, but they were not.
How come the media didn't drag these two and the GOP into some "perceived" conflict?
When and how does the media CHOOSE to sensationalize a story?
Hmmmm..........
Giuliani is TOTALLY unqualified.
Hilarious Blog!! Can't stop laughing!
When Hilary runs for office against these jerkbags-- she will blow McCain, Guiliani and Jebthro off the trail.
The republicans better come up with something good or we're all going down if Hilary Liar-Mouth Psychopath--clinging to Billies coattails for a career gets in office. What a nightmare.
She stayed because she was building a career out of --her liaison with Mr. Clinton. Sick, userous, full of lies and fake smiles and fake behavior---FOR A PRESIDENTIAL POSITION? Oh Gawd. This is a sick country if she gets in.
This is a sick country either way---but worse if the sick support a faked out psychopath.
Posted by htownjesse
This is obviously a rant the reaks of ignorance!
GOP=We take it all back in 08!!!!!
ozilot, you said they should wait a least a year before the presidential election before they start campaigning. Well, 1st come the primaries, and those start in late January of 2008, just a little over a year from now!
He showed he is a leader.
Not qualified to be president?
Who really is?
I don't know if America would vote Hilary or Obama to the whitehouse.
Dem's need to produce a leader and support him to run against Guliani if they want to win in 08.
The best bet for the republicans is to take notice of Arnold and the way Califorina voted.
Guliani is the best candidate they have.
And I'm a Dem and would probably vote for Guliani.
He seems like a no-none sense kind of guy.
Colin Powell will never run for president.
A gay Muslim abortion doctor could beat any black person in a Republican primary in most southern states as long as he was agianst gun control.
Don't look for Condi Rice to ever run for the same reason.
'Nuff said.
That, along with his lack of political experience is enough for me not to vote for him.
All I am saying is do your homework before 2008.
"Me, I am waiting for Donald Duck or Popeye"
TRIBU987, they are already in office, two more years!
I don't know where you're from but as a Southern Republican, I would vote for Condi tomorrow if we had a primary. Her skin color has nothing to do with her qualifications to be president. Why would you paint most Southern Republicans as racists? Are you biased against the southern states and assume we're all bubba racists?
Ms. Rice. who certainly was never taken seriously by foreign powers, would do everyone a favor by returning to academia.
Politics is not her forte and she would be eaten alive by both Dems and Repubs.
I exaggerate of course, but be realistic, there are enough southern Republicans who vote based on race that Colin and Condi have no chance.
Condi in particular has no chance. The attack ads write themselves. She was instrumental in getting us into an unpopular invasion and mismanaging the aftermath. Everything she has touched as Secretary of State has gotten worse. Now that may or may not be her fault, but you can bet the attack ads would paint the failing as her fault.
Keep Going And Going And Going Until The Bunny
Solves All Our Problems! Well isn't the Energizer
Bunny a much better choice then Jeb,Or Rudy,
Or Condoleezza Or Amnesty John McCain? Or,even
Hillary,or Barak and more honest too,honestly
here ya'll now? Or,do I get my place on the
ballot to vote,"For None Of The Above" now?...
I wouldn't vote for any of those losers you
want folks as that's just like "Bush & Cheney
Light!" God what a bunch of losers!
Posted by pojar1"
The Republicans have had 6 years to fix that problem. Does anyone down in the ranks of their own party wonder why they haven't done that?
In their megalomania they feel they are omnipotent and so in love with themselves are they, that they expect that people, the voting public, also feels that way about them. NOT.
What happens, is that many millions of dollars are spent by people hanging on to their coattails in hopes of hitting the big time.
But what really happens is that the voters (most), think that they are full of BS which is, of course, true.
The dangerous side of this is that sometimes they are actually get elected, i.e., Johnson, Reagan, Carter, Clinton, Ford, "W", and at a governatorial level, Schwartzenegger, Ventura, and many others too numerous to mention here.
As an old time pol with a lot of political experience said:
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
Nice quote Charlie, thanks.
'Nuff said.
Nope, we're not a FASCIST NATION with PURE PROPOGANDA for "NEWS".
Anyone who could clean up NYC after the disastrous years of Lindsay, Koch, Dinkins (remember when NYC went BROKE?), get rid of drug dealers in the parks, clean up the porn and *** theatres in Times Square, get people off of welfare (there were 1 in 7 people on welfare when he first took office). As US District Attorney in the 1980's he took on the mafia-controlled garbage haulers, wholesale foods industry and fish market industry. On 9/11 he showed the nation his ethics and leadership and as for me, I think he's got balls of steel. He's a moderate when this country needs a moderate, not some conservative re-tread like McCain. I am voting for him, and the election is still two years away.
Anyone who could clean up NYC after the disastrous years of Lindsay, Koch, Dinkins (remember when NYC went BROKE?), get rid of drug dealers in the parks, clean up the porn and *** theatres in Times Square, get people off of welfare (there were 1 in 7 people on welfare when he first took office). As US District Attorney in the 1980's he took on the mafia-controlled garbage haulers, wholesale foods industry and fish market industry. On 9/11 he showed the nation his ethics and leadership and as for me, I think he's got balls of steel. He's a moderate when this country needs a moderate, not some conservative re-tread like McCain. I am voting for him, and the election is still two years
I don't think they'll EVER find anyone TRULY qualified.
Better pick one of these two dirtbags NOW!!
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