(AP) BURLINGAME Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday declared that California's early primary has made the state more than a political ATM—just as he accepted a check from a supporter during a visit to a cafe and headed to two fundraising events.Rudy Giuliani says he'd welcome former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson into the presidential race.
But campaigning today in California, Giuliani argued that he's still the stronger candidate in terms of cutting taxes, fighting terrorism and bringing traditionally Democratic states -- like New York and California -- into play in a general election.
Still, Giuliani could be hindered if Thompson grabs the attention of Republicans who are looking for a candidate to beat Democrats, but are uneasy with Giuliani's support for gay rights and abortion rights.
"Rudy is a very powerful speaker, and I just don't see how a candy ass like Jonathan Edwards can stand up to him in a debate."
If the 2008 election for President were being held today, and the candidates were (the Democrat) and (the Republican), for whom would you vote?
Rudy Giuliani (R) 47% - 43% Hillary Rodham Clinton (D)
Rudy Giuliani (R) 43% - 42% Barack Obama (D)
Rudy Giuliani (R) 48% - 40% Al Gore (D)John McCain (R) 45% - 44% Hillary Rodham Clinton (D)
John McCain (R) 41% - 44% Barack Obama (D)
John McCain (R) 45% - 42% Al Gore (D)Fred Thompson (R) 39% - 47% Hillary Rodham Clinton (D)
Fred Thompson (R) 34% - 45% Barack Obama (D)
Fred Thompson (R) 39% - 44% Al Gore (D)
Source: Quinnipiac University Polling Institute
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 939 registered Ohio voters, conducted from May 8 to May 13, 2007. Margin of error is 3.2 per cent
An image from the city of Miami. creative commons attribution: tomalu; via flickr.com
Rudy Giuliani campaigned Tuesday for a second straight day across New York with a message aimed obviously at Republicans outside his home state: I can battle them for the blues.
The "them" is, of course, the Democrats who have been making much of picking up a red state or two and winning back the White House, perhaps riding there with Giuliani's home-state rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Giuliani pledges to take the battle against the Democrats to the blue states.The Quotes:
The former New York Mayor said he would like for there to be a system or database that would allow the government to “know everybody who is in the United States, who comes here from a foreign country”.
“If you make that your goal then everything follows from that or leads to that,” he added. “There should be a tamper proof id card, biometric id card that everyone who comes here from a foreign country should have. In order to make sure you identify everyone, in order to be secure.”
“Let’s see what happens in the debates they have now, the Senate has to debate it, the House as to debate it,” said Giuliani. “Let’s see if they can put something like that in, it that ends up giving us more security. The present version of the bill however … I don’t think that accomplishes that.”
This leaves McCain as the ONLY GOP Presidential candidate supporting the bill as submitted - out on an immigration limb that has little or no GOP voter base support.
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It was the decisive moment of the South Carolina debate.
Hearing Rep. Ron Paul recite the reasons for Arab and Islamic resentment of the United States, including 10 years of bombing and sanctions that brought death to thousands of Iraqis after the Gulf War, Rudy Giuliani broke format and exploded:
"That's really an extraordinary statement, as someone who lived through the attack of 9-11, that we invited the attack because we were attacking Iraq. I don't think I have ever heard that before, and I have heard some pretty absurd explanations for Sept. 11.
Love was in the air when Senator John McCain and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani spoke before New York Republicans last night.
Both men, each of whom hopes to whip the other in the Republican primary, gushed their mutual admiration and presented themselves as the 2008 campaign’s dueling frenemies.
ORLANDO — Rudy Giuliani said he will not support any legislation to make it easier for illegal immigrants to stay in this country unless there is a requirement to force all immigrants to have "tamper proof" identification cards.
"We need to know everybody who is in the United States," the Republican presidential candidate said today.
It is axiomatic that presidential candidates in the primary run toward their base- to the right for Republicans and left for Democrats -- and then veer toward the center in the general election. This playbook is being carefully followed by candidates such as Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton. Both have abandoned moderation as he runs to the right on social issues, guns and campaign finance reform and she curries favor with the anti-war left by suggesting we "un-declare" war and immediately withdraw troops from Iraq. However, Rudy Giuliani is trying something quite different and if this week was any indication it may be the best shot he has at securing the nomination.
The jig is up. Rudy Giuliani finally admitted in a speech at Houston Baptist College last week that he is an unapologetic supporter of abortion on demand. That revelation came as no great shock to those of us in the pro-life movement. His public pronouncements as mayor of New York, together with his more recent tap dances on the campaign trail, have told a very clear story.
"Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani reported a whopping $16.1 million in earned income over the past 16 months."
ATLANTA (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani used an appearance here Wednesday to reinforce a point he had made all day: Republicans are best equipped to combat the threat of terrorism.
A day after GOP candidates scrapped with one another at a debate in Columbia, S.C., the former New York City mayor invoked the Sept. 11 terror attacks to argue that Republicans take a more "realistic" approach toward handling terrorism.
I can see it. The GOP presidential hopeful could be a natural. In fact, last week, in laying out his views on abortion to a conservative audience, he hit a triple.
insidebayarea.com articleSEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: Mr. Mayor I know you are getting set up here. We just replayed the line that you gave to Ron Paul and his statement. You were indignant.
RUDY GIULIANI: It was sincere and it came from the heart. I mean, it reminded me of the Saudi prince who gave me the $10 million. He did the same thing. This is America's fault. The way America has outraged the world.
Look, it's real simple what happened. These people came here and killed us because of our freedom of religion, because of our freedom for women, because they hate us. And all we have to do is look at last week and these people in Fort Dix who are still here planning to kill us, three of them illegal immigrants, the other three here in other ways.
But the reality is, if you are confused about this, I think you put our country in much greater jeopardy. The reality is, these people are planning to kill us because, and this is hard for people to recognize, I usually hear this on the Democratic side. Don't usually hear it on the Republican side. You have got to face reality. If you can't face reality, you can't lead.
The Reagan Derby
Well, with 47,617 individual Votes recorded as of 12:55AM EST on 5/4/07, The Drudge Report has provided perhaps the most sweeping and comprehensive initial survey of viewer reaction to the first GOP Primary Debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
The Results thus far:
WASHINGTON -- Everybody said Rudy Giuliani would be about as appealing in the South as a three-day-old bagel.
The former mayor of New York is a Yankee who has been married three times and supports gay rights and abortion rights.
But he drew an "overflow" crowd when he spoke to the Alabama Legislature last month, according to The Associated Press. He's campaigning in Georgia and South Carolina and dropped by a conference in North Carolina last week. He's going back to Alabama May 9.
