Giuliani + NC Conservatives?
Wow. I'm shocked. The Civitas Institute just announced that Giuliani is going to "headline" the NC Conservative Leadership Conference. That's coming up April 27-28 in Raleigh. The Ogre will be there and be blogging live (with lots of pictures). But Giuliani?
According to the news release:As mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani returned accountability to city government and improved the quality of life for all New Yorkers. He reduced the overall crime rate by 57 percent and the murder rate by 65 percent — from 1,960 murders the year before he became mayor to 640 his last year in office. He reduced the welfare rolls by half, and moved more than 640,000 individuals from government dependency to self-sufficiency. Giuliani reduced or eliminated 23 taxes saving taxpayers more than $2.5 billion, and he slowed the growth of government. In addition, hundreds of millions of dollars were returned to the private sector because of his campaign against organized crime. And he turned an inherited budget deficit of $2.3 billion into a multi-billion dollar surplus, while creating 450,000 private sector jobs (private sector jobs declined during the previous administration). “North Carolina conservatives will welcome Giuliani’s conservative message,” said Hawke. Giuliani is running strong in a wide-open field of possible Republican candidates. The Civitas Institute’s March DecisionMaker poll placed Giuliani in the lead among North Carolina Republican voters, with a favorable vote of 33 percent. Arizona Senator John McCain is favored by 25 percent, and former Massachusetts’s Governor Mitt Romney by 9 percent. Nineteen percent are undecided and 15 percent said their candidate was not mentioned in the poll.
Wow. So Giuliani has a conservative view on taxes. As far as I've been able to tell, that's his ONLY conservative position. I'm thinking that if the same people are there this year that were there last year, there's not going to be a whole lot of support for this cross-dressing, 6-timing, gun-hater. But he's in the lead among NC voters? Well, count me in the 15 percent of that vote, because I'm still backing Tom Tancredo. And sorry, Peter Porcupine, about Romney's showing -- just being from the state of Massachusetts is a big liability down here. But I don't get Giuliani support from this state. I can only assume that people are focused on his work after 9-11 and not his position on political issues. Well, I'll get to meet him and take his picture (if he doesn't run off like some politicians that are too self-important). And you can check here on April 27th for the first-hand live account of what he's saying.
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pfft.
I don't think he's conservative AT ALL. I know it doesn't really matter but his personal life BOTHERS me a lot as well. It will haunt him I think..he makes poor choices there and sooner or later he'll do that with our country...
I don't think he's conservative AT ALL. I know it doesn't really matter but his personal life BOTHERS me a lot as well. It will haunt him I think..he makes poor choices there and sooner or later he'll do that with our country...
Posted by: Raven at March 29, 2007 08:54 PM (1PWFm)
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I'll give him the conservative on taxes and government services. I might even go so far as to call him an economic conservative. But for social and other issues, he's about as far left as you can get, from what I can see.
I think if he's the candidate, he'll get absolutely blasted for his cross-dressing and multiple marriages. I can't vote for him.
I think if he's the candidate, he'll get absolutely blasted for his cross-dressing and multiple marriages. I can't vote for him.
Posted by: Ogre at March 29, 2007 08:57 PM (oifEm)
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He is Wrong on most of the issues other than small, Govenrment. and Bush was suppoed to be small govenrment too...long shot...Go Tom. and I have voted for Tom twice already...
Posted by: Michael at March 29, 2007 10:55 PM (akwIr)
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So I guess I'm not wrong wondering why this guy is headlining a conservative conference...
Posted by: Ogre at March 30, 2007 09:16 AM (1gBFf)
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