Giuliani: GOP needs to be a 50-state party
Giuliani said the GOP needs to focus its efforts in all 50 states.
(CNN)-Rudy Giuliani says the Republican party needs to change its strategy if it wants to win in 2008.
"How about we win?" the GOP hopeful said in a speech Saturday. "That means that we take back the House, we take back the Senate, and we keep the presidency in Republican hands," he said.
Giuliani said the GOP needs to focus beyond running in 25 or 30 states "which is what we have done in the last 3 or 4 times, which is why we had to depend on Ohio, in '04 and we had to depend on Florida in '00."
He criticized the way certain races had been run in the past. "We do this 30 state campaign, we don't campaign in 20 of the states," the former New York mayor said, "and these happen to be the states where we lost members of the Congress and Senators and we have to become again, among other things in 2008, we have to become a 50-state Republican party."
Giuliani, who was speaking to a gathering of women, said when it comes to Senator Hillary Clinton, D-New York, voters should consider more than just her role as the only woman in the presidential campaign. "American people decide who they want as president based on who they think the right person is for the country, not whether someone is a man or a woman or a different race," Giuliani said. "We have a record that's very, very proud and very long of making certain that women participate on a full and complete and equal basis with men," he said.
Giuliani made his comments to the National Federation of Republican Women Convention in Palm Springs, California. He was scheduled to campaign in Portland, Oregon, and Kirkland, Washington later in the day.
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Giuliani has a history of taking a position from something not of his own design. This man took the tragedy of 911 and turned it into a political stepping stone for himself and his party. If everyone who thinks they might vote for this guy would take the time to listen to what he says and look at what he really does, Giuliani won't make it through the primary.
So we invade a country on the basis of lies,then get stuck in an unwinnable fight against a religious fanaticism,but we have to stay in it forever so we don't hurt the feelings of our military who don't want to accept defeat? That's even better than saying you hate children! Keep those posts up,I'm sure there are quite a few vietnam vets who appreciate the treatment they got.
Hey GOPers, try to be the party of the other 95% of America for a change.
Ron Paul 2008.
CHRIS from MIDDLETOWN, I'm not far from Middletown and I don't see your county or the others doing that well since your friend Bush got in. Middletown is full of crime, according to the Times Herald Record, could that be because of hard times? You sit behind your computer and write long stories criticizing all the Democrats. If you were such a intellectual you would have more important things to do with your time than play on the computer. Your comment about people who live in glass houses doesn't even make sense. P.S. The lady said everyone was rude which did include you.
Rudy is a media canidate don't be fooled! He has not ONE Single Straw Poll! MSM is Biased! Check out the real results at http://www.ronpaul2008.com/straw-poll-results/ when is the Media gonna stop panering to the money they get and back the American peoples choice! We have spoken yet you still deny it is just making us stronger! Money alone will not win the next President be forewarned!!!!
Laurinda,Chris is from Middletown,Connecticut, not Middletown,NY. But I'm sure his county there isn't doing so well either! I support his efforts to push for moderation even if his views are a little skewed. I'm glad I pushed in your area for John Hall,you people deserved better representation.
Lets see... Four more years of Republican rule:
1. $12 trillion deficit.
2. 10,500 dead in Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran.
3. Dollar worth $.73 against Canadian dollar.
4. Passport needed to leave your state.
5. Speaking against President punishable by up to 6 months in secret jail.
I feel safer already.
How selfish. The winner of the White House should pick a cabinet of the most qualified professionals from BOTH parties as did George Washington.
I think I struck a nerve....anyway – Democrats – you are running far left candidate....agree? Republicans...for the most part – are running right wing candidates....agree? There was a recent poll that said that 60% of all voters describe themselves as "moderate" – as much rhetoric as you want to throw Giulianis way – he is that candidate – and there are many that don't buy the DNC's "Republicans are evil" deal....some...actually think for themselves – oh...and nutjob Laurinda – I don't actually live in Middletown...but when you start looking up where people live...you become frightening to rational people. Democrats....are you comfortable voting with the homeless the DNC buses in with the incentive of free donuts....well and Laurinda?
I pray to God every night that Giuliani wins the GOP nomination in the primaries...
...I'm an avowed Democrat.
Notice: All about the GOP winning and nothing about what they will do for the country!
As always, what is good for the GOP is a top priority and what is good for the country is dead last.
As for the GOP and women – they like their women barefoot in winter and pregnant is summer. Every time Bob Dole ran for office, Elizabeth had to quit her job and bake cookies.
Republican men love women – they've each had two or three ... Vitter pays to keep them company. Bush has appointed several women to serve – but they sit around with the Nancy Regan look when ever he's in the room... makes him feel like Mommy is still there to solve his every problem.
Actually no Chris, I think if you discarded the fundraising extremist tactics of both sides you'd find our candidates for the most part are centrists. I don't find Rudy's rhetoric to be indicative of him either,that's why I encourage you to continue. Don't fall for fundraising hype. It's a necessary evil that does our common cause little good. Thank you for helping our nation come together.
CHRIS IN MIDDLETOWN, Oh, I'm a nut job? Think what you want, but I got the best of you. You're a fool. You have proven to everyone that you have alot to say about nothing.
Guliani is an authoritarian. As mayor he arrested people for jaywalking – imagine what he will arrest people for if elected President! If you value individual freedom and Constitutional law, please investigate Ron Paul for President.
Posted By Jon Fort Hood, TX
I'm having a hard time making any sense of your comments.
"America outrages me, you all constantly gripe and rage about support the troops bring them home but you vote democrat in 2008, so then this country can look like the cowards who abandoned a country in which we destroyed, the lives lost of my brothers and sisters in arms become totally meaningless, my pay check gets robbed, and then most of all you make each one of us Soldiers, Marines, Airmen, and Sailors except defeat. Yeah thanks for the support."
The lost lives of your brothers and sisters in arms become meaningless because the Democrats want to bring the troops home!
I don't view your comment as having much respect for your brothers and sisters in arms! Your comment is suggesting that their bravery and sacrifice will be meaningful only if they win the unwinable, senesless conflict! How utterly shameful of you!
Allow me to give you my view of our brothers and sisters in arms.
They are fighting grizzly fanatical groups of religious sects who place no value on life.
Who are void of any Western Chritian morals. Who equate winning with the number of what they view as satanic Western infidels they can blow up!
Our troops are not fighting on a even plane. They are using weapons against the cemented mind sets of Eastern radicals that have endured for centuries. And no matter how many of these fanatics we kill there are thousands more to take their place!
This war is unwinable militarily whether it be on there turf or ours!
And in my mind, if you were really concerned about your brothers and sisters in arms, you would be utterly irate about them being thrown into the middle of this excuse for a war. An excuse void of any truth, strategy, or support from your current Republican administration.
You would be horrified that our brave military members are making the ultimate sacrifice despite not having enough men, proper equipment or valid decision makers at the helm.
And you would be proud of your brave brothers and sisters in arms for their gallant service under impossible conditions.
And you would be proud of the Democrats who honour their military enough to put their military first by fighting to bring them home.
And you would proud the Democrats are trying to take your brothers and sisters out of this war and out of a Nation whose level of hatred for Western Idealolgy has little chance of change. Especially by military force.
And you would realize that sending the troops home is certainly not defeat. It is applying wisdom in the face of the current administration's stupidity.
And it has no power whatsoever in diminishing the bravery, honour and sacrifices of any active or non-active military member.
Their sacrifice and bravery is not measured by the incompetence of a President who used politics and deception as a means of employing the loyalty and bravery of military forces around the world.
I couldn't be more proud of our brothers and sisters in arms. I thank them wholeheartedly for their sacrifice, bravery, and loyalty.
But they've done enough for their Nations in the name of Freedom and it's time for them to come home in the name of humanity and their loved ones.
God Bless each and every one of them and keep them safe until wisdom over throws power hungry leaders.
First of all, I think it's pretty safe to say the war will be the main issue in the next election. The public does not support it any longer and current polls show congress and the president with impressively low approval ratings. None of the top Democratic candidates are willing to leave Iraq any time soon and all of the republicans (except Ron Paul) just want to stick with G-dub's "strategery." Bush, along with some other members of the republican party have really upset and lost the trust of a lot of americans and the republican party has paid the price for it. It seems to me, that if the republicans really want to have a shot at keeping the white house, they'll nominate Paul, I just don't expect them to have the guts (or brains) to do so. So we'll have another Clinton in the house and we'll spend at least the next 4 years hearing repbulicans cry about Hillary and nothing will change.
Giuliani's concept sounds like the number of wives he's had.
Ok...(I know I'm not changing minds..but maybe for something to think about) – this is from Wikipedia – "Center-left, left of center, and left liberal refer to the left side of mainstream politics in liberal democracies. These support liberal democracy, representative democracy, some degree of private property rights and free markets, high spending on social welfare, extensive regulation of the economy" – I would count the number of entitlement programs and how they are to be financed – the mandated universal healthcare would be a "high spending on social welfare" – so...all the Democrats candidates are "left" of center....all I am saying is that the majority is in the center...both sides are running right and left wing...Giuliani is as close to the center as there is running...thats all I'm saying...I'm sorry if you are upset with this point....but you can see from the blogs the division...discussion is good fanatics on either side are not....
Yeah, he can't even show up to the African American debate; how can he possibly show up in all fifty states?
And as a Ron Paul supporter, I'd like to ask that whoever said the following needs to dial down the hyperbole tenfold:
"RON PAUL , he is our only chance, Rudy is a LIAR , ask some of the NEW YORK fire fighters,
read ORWELLS 1984 , they all say the same thing, if RON PAUL LOSES"
Please elaborate on how the 2004 election was rigged...because it just sounds like more left wing crybaby antics.
I hope the GOP sticks to it's guns and runs on their reputation.......
-Initiated war with a country that never attacked us based upon selective analysis of intelligence from Iraq.
-Let Osama (who did attack us) out of sight and mind.
-About the best thing you can say about the divided economy is unless your a crook, millionaire or in the medical industry, it sucks.
-Oh yeah.....the third world lifestyle it's whats hot in New Orleans right now and apparently for the next couple of years.
Greed and corruption are the cornerstone of the republican brand of doing business. I don't know how a self respecting politian running as a republican could expect a single vote.
In 2006 the state of Ohio became a blue state and from where I live the skies are clearing up from the red stentch of the GOP. So in closing let me advise this, all you neocons need to pray real hard, and then find a democrate and stand behind her.
Chris-I think the problem here is that "left," "left of center," "center,"and "right of center" are all on the democratic side. Rudy is actually in democratic territory,which isn't surprising since he was and essentially is a democrat.The republicans have staked out a position on the far right with the theocrats. Most of us believe that's the lunatic fringe. A lot of your anti-democratic comments are coming from that region and make you look like a lunatic yourself. Keep trying to pull your party out of the fringe and kindly stop regurgitating fox news propaganda,it's equivalent to me calling Rudy a right-wing war-monger (which he's not.) I think that's why you're insulting people. Again I strongly support your attempts to right your party and I hope one day the center will actually represent the middle of the road. Until then be aware that these right-wingers have no shame about putting out talking points that make you look crazy. Remember,ideals are just ideals,unobtainable at times but worth working towards.
I started voting Rep. during college, and certain social issues have caused me to shift to vote Dem. But this is truly frightening, Giuliani (and others) want a total GOP juggernaut on the country – control the House, the Senate and the White House. There doesn't seem to be a recognition of the diversity of views and the desire to be conciliatory in the practice of public service. John McCain, in another article, spoke of America as the greatest experiment in the history of mankind. If the views that Giuliani expressed are normative, then it would appear the great experiment is beginning to fail.
Rudy the drag queen speaks! I guess he relates to women pretty well