Giuliani Mum On Differences With GOP Field

Presidential Hopeful Says Voters Should Sort Out Where They Agree, Disagree With Him

(AP)  Republican Rudy Giuliani declined to tell a voter on Tuesday where he agrees and disagrees with conservative members of his party, saying it's about more than "just an ideology."

The former New York City mayor, who has made conservative Republicans nervous with some of his more liberal views - his support of abortion rights and gun control, for example - was asked pointedly at a town-hall-style meeting to outline where his views align with conservatives.

Giuliani chuckled, took a deep breath and then told the questioner it was up to him to figure that out.

"And I ask you to consider doing that, not as a conservative Republican, or as a right-wing something or a left-wing something or a middle-wing something or a tailback," Giuliani said. "Why don't you try doing it as an American voter? Figure out what you agree with and disagree with."

The voter, Peter Sajko, nodded politely as Giuliani went on, describing his record as mayor of New York City, where crime declined and unemployment went down.

"To try to analyze it from the point of view of just an ideology - a few people do that, but basically my hero was Ronald Reagan, and Ronald Reagan used to say 'My 80 percent friend is not my 20 percent enemy,"' Giuliani said.

Sajko, a 55-year-old registered Republican, said afterward he was not satisfied with the response.

"I think it was 'Let's dodge the bullet here, let's not deal with specifics but let's bring up Ronald Reagan and appeal to the charisma and nostalgia for Ronald Reagan and let's carry it over to Rudy Giuliani,"' said Sajko.

Giuliani had also used the Reagan quote last weekend when he appealed for support at a conference of religious conservative in Washington.

He offered that group assurances that despite his support for abortion rights, he would seek to lower the number of abortions. He pledged that if elected, he would appoint conservative judges, support school choice and insist on victory in Iraq.

On Tuesday, Giuliani spoke to about 200 employees at the Concord offices of Lincoln Financial Group, a financial services organization. Earlier Tuesday, he filed his official candidacy papers for the state's primary.

Giuliani was greeted at the Statehouse by Secretary of State William Gardner, who is accepting filings during a three-week period that ends Nov. 2.

Gardner has not yet set the date for the state's primary, and said last week he would not do so until after the filing period for candidates to get on the ballot. With states jockeying for earlier and earlier positions, New Hampshire's primary could end up being in 2007.

[simonsez40]

This is what we have RIGHT NOW - the majority are Republican and this report comes out yearly by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

4 Democrats in there and the rest are Republican....you want 4 more years of that?

The 22 most corrupt members of Congress
Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-NM)
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK)
Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA)
Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-CA)
Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL)
Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA)
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA)
Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-LA)
Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA)
Rep. Gary G. Miller (R-CA)
Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (D-WV)
Rep. Timothy F. Murphy (R-PA)
Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA)
Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM)
Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ)
Rep. Harold Rogers (R-KY)
Rep. David Scott (D-GA)
Rep. Jerry Weller (R-IL)
Rep. Heather A. Wilson (R-NM)
Rep. Don Young (R-AK)


Dishonorable mentions
Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-ID)
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)

[prinzowhales]

I''m surprised this diseased skin of excrement has any support...He still has not explained his lies about WTC7...He is a friend of open borders and US taxpayer giveaways to the wage-lowering illegals in the form of social services. This is a scum-bag...a man who paved the roads of New York and his road towards the presidency with the crushed bones of the 9-11 victims.

The only think more loathsome than Giuliani are his supporters.

[lostcountry1]

why doesnt someone ask him where tha WMD''S are? this 9-11 collaborator should be hung in public. if you cant see him wanting to be the new, improved G.W. BUSHIT, then your not remembering anything. this wanna-be mobster is full of himself!

[briannorwood]

Anybody notice the striking similarity in appearance between Rudy Giuliani and Underdog''s Simon Bar Sinister?

[iceman_1960]

Rudy Giuliani on Bill Clinton:

"Most of Bill Clinton"s policies are very similar to most of mine." - Rudy Giuliani

On responsibility for failure to prevent the September 11 attacks: "The idea of trying to cast blame on President Clinton is just wrong for many, many reasons, not the least of which is I don''t think he deserves it." - Rudy Giuliani

Source:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani

[iceman_1960]

"Giuliani Mum On Differences With GOP Field"

Who cares what his mother thinks about it ?!

[briannorwood]

"Why don''t you try doing it as an American voter? Figure out what you agree with and disagree with."
...

OK, Rudy. How about this? I agree that you are nothing more than a flip-flopping right-wing panderer.

I disagree that you are even remotely qualified to be President!

Need more?

[skyk-2009]

The **** (hippo hips) still in green underwear from last month in celebration of the environmental planet etc ...

to present next nobel award to sheryl one square for her advanced thinking regarding an inconvenient truth concerning crapper etiquette.

This to be addressed on the Morning Dork program with Meeka Alphabet demonstrating.


Posted by stonebog at 08:20 AM : Oct 24, 2007
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Have you ever said anything even close to being intelligent in your life? ROFLMAO

[abbe91]

Well, at least we know that he agrees with the GOP regarding the protection of child molesters :

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3753385&page=1

Why doesn''t he just quit, like Hastert ?

[chucktruck2]

go to the blog "Evangelicals for Mitt"