Posted By Ruzy New York NY : October 20, 2007 10:43 pm

Yes, please. Go Hillary. Go. As far away as possible, and take the millstone you're married to with you. Ten years of hatred and divisiveness spawned by your ambition and lies and personal agenda is enough for this poor nation of ours.
Personally, I find I could favor two of the Democratic candidates running, as well as two of the Republicans. They are similar in some aspects, and vastly different in others, but I dearly hope I will have the chance to have to choose between them come the general election. That way, if the person I don't select should win, I will at least be able to put my support behind the winner and wish them well and pray the country can indeed "move on."
Hillary is a divider, not a healer.

Polls appear to show, in a three-party race, with a new candidate supported by the religious right, Clinton at 46%, Giuliani at 30%, and the third candidate at 14%. It would appear that unless the republicans get their act together soon, they are in deep trouble.

Did you look? Obviously not.

"""Likewise if we’re honest with each other, trust will follow. We might agree, we might not always agree. I don’t always agree with myself. But I’ll give you a reason to trust me and you’ll always know where I stand."""

http://www.joinrudy2008.com/article/pr/919

2nd to last paragraph, scroll to the bottom.

Ya know, I lived in NYC when he was Mayor and I never remember him ONCE saying anything about faith or against abortion or against gays... The only thing it seemed he was against was the African-American population.

NYers may remember this:

GIULIANI IS A JERK.

>>>it's not phony, patronizing, or trying to tell people what they want to hear.

Hey Mac from Severn, MD: see my comment above. His stump speeches, especially his speeches at places like FRC, are TOTALLY unrecognizable from his time in NYC. Totally unrecognizable. A totally different person, Mac.

He IS A PANDERER of the highest degree.

You are a snake oil saleman, phoney, inexperienced federal and international politicians, and a disgrace to family values.

You should have dropped out now like you did in the 2000 senate race when you faced with hillary and the polls showed that you were losing.

On the other hand, you stay now because your personal companies and your friends benefit financially with all the donated funds. This presidential campaign will make you rich and your supporters poor.

I watched his address to this group via the web, and it's the same – he is what he is. That's refreshing! He's not trying to "phony up" to anybody. I'm impressed – may not agree 100% on every issue, but he's a straight talker. He has my ear.

support abortion rights
continue to support the ban on partial birth abortions
support parental notification laws
support the Hyde amendment(which denies federal funding for abortions)
make the $10,000 tax credit for adoptions permanent and "cut the red tape" involved in the adoption process

I think that Republicans and Democrats will agree – this is a moderate stance – and we no longer need the left....nor do we need the right....we need a true moderate....socially liberal and fiscally conservative

We know, Rudy, we know. We expect nothing from you, either.

Now, go exploit 9-11 some more, EPA apologist liar.

The Republican Party needs to show that it too can be inclusive of a broad range of people while remaining tough on defense, cutting back on spending, and supporting social justice.

This is the only way the party will survive worldwide Bush hatred and years of quasi-Republican rule in Congress which has left us with massive debt.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney attends a gathering of the Family Research Council on Friday.

The former Massachusetts governor won almost 28 percent of the 5,776 votes cast, edging out former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who finished 30 votes behind him.

"The vote is a validation of Governor Romney's core message to grass-roots Republican activists," Romney campaign spokesman Kevin Madden said at the close of the two-day conference.

"His is a campaign built on the important issues of national security, economic security and stronger families."

Texas Rep. Ron Paul finished in third place, with 15 percent of the vote, and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson finished in fourth place with 10 percent. See how the top four finishers performed »

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani finished with 107 votes, just under 2 percent of all ballots cast, and Arizona Sen. John McCain was just behind Giuliani, with 81 votes.

"It's hard to gauge how big a victory this is for Romney because we're not entirely sure whether these voters represent the larger Christian conservative constituency," CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider said.

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"Romney won the Ames, Iowa, straw poll in August by spending a lot of money. We don't know how much of an organizational effort was behind this victory," he said.

"Romney's true acceptability to Christian conservatives will not become clear until we see how he does in January in the Iowa Republican caucuses and the South Carolina Republican Primary.

"But the results suggest that being a Mormon may be a barrier for winning the support of Christian conservatives," Schneider said. Watch Schneider discuss the significance of Romney's win »

A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll shows that Americans' attitudes toward Mormonism appear to be changing.

Half of those surveyed last weekend considered Mormons Christian, up from 34 percent last year.

Far fewer people voted in person at the conference than participated online or by mail.

Huckabee was the clear winner of the in-person balloting, with 488 of the 952 votes. Romney was second with 99 on-site votes.

Only members of the council's political arm could vote.

During the voting period, which began in August, the conservative organization saw its membership increase from about 5,000 members to 8,500, said Tony Perkins, council president.

"The straw vote is a setback for Fred Thompson, a Southerner who is trying to lock up the conservative wing of the party. Thompson's 10 percent is an embarrassingly weak showing," Schneider said.

But Thompson's spokeswoman saw the results in a different light.

"Fred Thompson was happy to have received an enthusiastic response and standing ovation from attendees at the Values Voters Summit," Karen Hanretty said.

"While it's easy for a candidate to buy votes in an unscientific straw poll, what matters more is that Christian conservative voters favor Fred over the other candidates, as evidenced in a recent CBS poll," she said.

Powerful voting bloc

Christian conservatives carry a lot of clout within the Republican Party.

They vote in great numbers in the Republican primaries, especially in the crucial early presidential contest states of Iowa and South Carolina. That's one reason all of the GOP presidential candidates came to Washington to court their vote.

Coming into the Values Voters Summit, Christian conservatives appeared to have problems with all of the top-tier GOP White House hopefuls.

The front-runner in the national polls, thrice-married Giuliani, supports the legal right to an abortion.

Romney - the leader in Iowa and New Hampshire, which will hold the first primary - supported the legal right to abortions before changing his stance.

His Mormon faith may be a problem for some values voters.

Thompson - who is second in most national polls - is against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. He believes the states should decide. Some top Christian conservative leaders have questioned Thompson's commitment to their core issues.

McCain also opposes a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, and he's had a rocky relationship over the years with Christian conservative leaders.

Huckabee could be considered the ideal candidate for evangelical voters - he's the only minister.

But he's not well known, and regardless of his strong performances in the Republican presidential debates so far this year, few think he has a shot at winning the GOP nomination.

The other presidential hopeful who also saw eye-to-eye with the religious right is no longer a candidate. Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas dropped out of the race for the White House on Friday due to a lack of campaign cash.

While Giuliani received only polite applause from the audience after his comments, Huckabee won several ovations.

The former Baptist preacher called legalized abortion a "holocaust."

"Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our work force," he said.

"It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our work force had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973."

Huckabee also spoke adamantly of the need for conservative lawmakers to show no compromise on fighting for a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between a man and a woman.

"I'm very tired of hearing people who are unwilling to change the Constitution, but seem more than willing to change the holy word of God as it relates to the definition of

I am a Conservative Democrat and as of now I support Rudy for President.

Thank you for your interesting answer. Those who know me do not consider me extremist. By your own admission, you are a moderate. If extremists populate the blogs, then both of us are in the wrong place.

With all due respect, Rudy doesn't have the moderate vote. Moderates are voting for Ron Paul this time. Rudy, like others, represents majority of "stay the course" crowd. That's the reason he cannot see beyond 9/11. He is lagging on his reading assignment too. He has not made it to the 9/11 commission report yet.

How can you entrust the Motherland to a man who cheated on mother of his children?
You may not be ready for Ron Paul yet. May I suggest John McCain? At least, the man has character!

Jeb Bush's son supporting Giuliani gives my insight on Rudy all the credability I need. And I'm not an American and don't have a vote. But if I did I surely wouldn't vote for Rudy errrr Bush errrrr Cheney.

If you want another 4 years just like the almost eight you've just experienced vote for Rudy..but don't expect America or the rest of the world to thank you.

http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?id=25844

What a great article!

Anybody stupid enough to let a Republican get in after these Bush years just because you don't like Clinton means you're a right winger yourself. Go get drunk on Election Day, whiner.

I'm a wee bit confused – what does your adult Santa Claus have to do with the law of the land?

By the way: the bible and Jesus said NOTHING about abortion, and the Catholic Church allowed abortions until "quickening" – first movement of the fetus – until 1869.

Which proves anti-abortionism is a recent phenemenon, created to put modern women back in their place.

There will be no forced birth in America, misgynists. Try and you die.

Laurinda, I watch you babble brainlessly on this forum every day.

Time for your meds.

The most extreme among us are the most likely to become vocal. Look at all the Ron Paul supporters out there. The truth is not represented by those who put forward comments on blogs. The right wing and the left wing bloggers are coming out against Rudy because they fear what he will do to their causes. The polls are done by telephone, so you're less likely to get extremists. Let's just face it – Rudy had the moderate vote (i.e., the majority of us). Make sense now?

ANTI-GUN

is still

Pro-Big Government

and

said we should be about the business of Nation building which has lead to so much hatred of us in the first place.

All you of Morons who say go away Christian Right, need to look more at this guy...he ain't a republican...and he is the reason we have lost our base, and will lose this election.

He isn't conservative...conservatives are the base of the party.... We WILL LOSE if Rudy is our candidate.

CBS News has confirmed, in advance of a 60 Minutes interview with outed CIA agent Valerie Plame to be run this Sunday, that Plame "was involved in operations to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons."

Bush and Cheney must be impeached immediately.