Rudy to keynote state GOP dinner
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Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign didn’t go so well, but the former New York City mayor still seems to be a welcome presence among state Republicans.
Giuliani is listed as the keynote speaker at the New York Republican State Committee’s annual dinner on May 29, according to a copy of the invitation circulated by the Westchester GOP. Tickets for the reception and dinner at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Manhattan start at $1,000.
Senate Majority Leader Joseph Brunoe and Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco are listed as “special guests.”
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here is what is interesting..the wannabe republicans in
westchester who claim that they are conservatives and that
I am not….etc….apparently don’t get where the state
party is at this point…inviting rudy giuliani sends
a clear message that they are taking the party in
a more moderate direction…not that conservatives
aren;t welcome..its just that they will not control
the agenda on social issue nor will they veto
the candidate selection process any longer
Let’s see: Rudy is the most hawkish Republican out there, he supports the war in Iraq, he supports supply-side economics, and believes in the second amendment. He is pretty conservative. You on the other hand, are against all individual gun-rights, against partial-birth abortion bans, against the war in Iraq, and against the Bush tax cuts.
Rudy is a moderate-conservative. You are not.
looks like anti is on a crusade…so you are for the
war in Iraq, and against gun control…correct..that
puts you out of step with about 80% of new yorker
as for the bush tax cuts ..McCain voted against them
you don’t cut taxes in a war..
by the way Rudy’s positions during the election were
counter to the positions he took as mayor..he is pro life
he is for a comprehensive immigration bill ..partial birth
abortion is not an issue ..and as far as the war is concerned I stand with that good republican chuck hagel
wrong war wrong time wrong reason
correction to the above..rudy is pro choice…and pro
gun control…ask his police comissioner
I did not give my positions. Nice try. I gave Rudy’s. Rudy is pro-choice but believes in the partial-birth abortion ban. Something you do not and the vast majority of Americans do. Rudy, believes in some gun control but unlike you and the small minority of Americans does not believe that the 2nd Amendment is a collective right.
“as for the bush tax cuts ..McCain voted against them
you don’t cut taxes in a war..”
We are talking about Rudy and not McCain. Your argument was that having Rudy speak was a blow to conservatives. Clearly, considering Rudy is a conservative, your argument is bogus. Way to try and change the subject. Obviously, you were absent the day they taught how to reason and make logical arguments in law school. You might do well to go over ethics again. Falsely alleging mafia ties is defamatory.
As for cutting taxes in a war, last time I checked you were not an economist. I will go with Martin Feldstein and the late Milton Friedman over you or McCain any day of the week.
You are against the war now. That just makes you a frontrunner. You sang a different tune in 2002.
Hagel, is also pro-life, pro-guns, and has a thousand other positions that the Consultant is against. It is kind of a pathetic diversion that you always cite politicians who you are against on 90% of the issues whenever they happen to agree with you and then try and act like you are just following their lead. Dennis Kucinich agrees with Chuck Hagel on the war too, that doesn’t make Kucinich a good Republican.
actually you are the one who is delusionally…where did
the mafia ties crap come from…how do you know my position
on partial birth abortion..taking a guess….you think you
know what Rudy stands for but he was rejected as too
liberal for the republican party..he is too liberal
for you..
rudy is considered too liberal for most conservatives
thats why he did so poorly in the REPUBLICAN primaries
but you seem to want to justify his conservatism based
on your warped view of what is liberal and what is conservative…rudy is pro choice..that is a liberal
position it is against the republican platform..
you can’t mitigate by talking about partial abortion
Rudy is for gun control..you can’t mitigate that
by making constitutional arguments about the first
amendment..rudy is for gay rights…those three
issues made him unacceptable to national conservatives
he has never said he favors the war..he has said
it would be irresponsibile to pull out precipitously
that is neither liberal or conservative…
so which of the above postions are your positions
why don;t you enlighten us instead of just being
anti …tell us where you stand..because if
called upon for your comments by the media you
have to say something other than you don’t agree
with me…executive director in yonkers i think
was your title…correct.
You have accused Zehy Jereis of many things.
According you Giuliani never supported the war. Funny thing, is we all have google, Mike. Giuliani was an avid supporter of the Iraq War.
June 5, 2007
Giuliani: Iraq war ‘absolutely the right thing to do’
Posted: 09:56 PM ET
WASHINGTON (CNN) — At the start of the Republican presidential debate, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was unwavering in his support for the United States’ original decision to go to war with Iraq.
“Absolutely the right thing to do,” Giuliani said. “It’s unthinkable to leave Saddam Hussein in charge of Iraq and be able to fight the war on terror. And the problem is that we see Iraq in a vacuum. Iraq should not be seen in a vacuum. It is part of terrorist war against the United States.”
Giuliani also took a jab at Democrats, saying they need to take the threat of Iran more seriously.
“The danger to us is a state like Iran handing nuclear weapons over to terrorists,” he said. “So it has to be seen in that light and we have to be successful in Iraq.”
–CNN Associate Producer Lauren Kornreich
I haven’t accused zhey jeries of anything…but I did
call for him to resign from the leadership of the party
but you continued to work for him…taking orders from
a guy who should never have been chairman..too much
baggage…everyone knew it..but you justified it
because he was a “hard worker”...still want to hitch
your star to zhey…afterall it was you and his
committee who put “faso over the top” ....that
must be your idea of a great republican candidate
and as for Rudy…his position on Iran is kind of
univeral don’t you think…even hillary called for
obliteration…if they got nuclear weapons…
but knowing what we know now….we should not have invaded
Iraq..and if you think we should have even though there
was no WMD..got any other nations you would like to invade
maybe you are a neocon…that actually would make sense
of course none of what they preach is anything close
to traditional republican foreign policy..or maybe
you don;t care about the 4000 men and woman who are dead
and the over 100,000 who have sustained traumatic
brain injuries, amputations etc….for what…wrong
war, wrong reason, wrong time…
much as I would love to continue the reparte..its time
to tee off…
Way to change topics. You claimed Giuliani never said he supported the Iraq War. That is patently false. He is an avid supporter of the war and was in 2002, 2004, 2006, & 2008. But keep switching the topic and act like no one notices.
And for this Yonkers thing, I have no idea what you are talking about. I am not involved in Yonkers politics but good guess.
were you ever?
and actually i did play golf today with my son who keeps
kicking my butt on the course now that he drives 285
of course I am still great on the short game..unfortunately
since i have been diagnosed with a debilitating disease
called psoriatic arthritis..playing is now a lot tougher
but thats what happens when you get old…the other
thing that happens is that you get less rigid in your
views..so that if I conclude that John McCain at 72 is
in as much pain as I am…and that he is intrangient on
foreign policy questions that I deem important you
never can tell what I will do in the voting both
so far he has my vote..but..
As one ages, the Butch Harmon books do minimal good. Read Trump to learn how to cheat. I heard that he once had a hole- in- one and wrote down zero on his scorecard.
that is because his handicapp was probably 18..which
means on every hole he got a stroke so a 1 became a
zero..however….i would rather play well ….it
just becomes harder when your kid hits his drive
100 yards ahead of you..
“you
never can tell what I will do in the voting both
so far he has my vote..but..”
Previously, you chastised conservatives for not supporting McCain, and now you are indicating that you may not vote for him. What is good for the goose is good for the ganger. This is despite all the nasty things you have said about Obama on this blog. You are a complete frontrunner. It is hard to decipher when you are being sincere since you have consistently praised McCain. You also defended yourself by saying what a loyal Republican you had been. How times change.
I am done with this blog for the time being. Someone else will have to attempt to keep the Consultant honest. A difficult task indeed.
Hey, I am a Democrat and I don’t want the Consultant consulting for us. We are doing well on our own. Anti-consultant, smart move… leave on top. You thoroughly ran circles around the Consultant’s arguments, even if I don’t agree with a lot of your opinions on the issues.
In match play, If you get a hole-in-one, you don’t put down zero on your scorecard if you are getting a stroke-a-hole, unless, of course, your opponent also gets a hole-in-one at the same hole, the same time the two of are playing the same hole, a happenstance probably never recorded in the history of match play. What I proffered was a joke. It’s no wonder people are at each other’s throats on this blog. Even a rudimentary sense of humor around here is more scarce even than an ace.
no such thing as loyalty to a party in my book..just
loyalty to your principles and your country..up until
w that was largely the republican party..he has been
a huge dissapointment
ed..if he wasn’t playing match play but low net..and totaling his score as a net score a zero would have been
fine..lots of stories about how donald likes to cheat
but putting a zero down is too obvious…kicking the
ball would be a little better or not counting a few
strokes..so there must be some explanation for the zero
The explanation is that it was a joke. Interesting though how widely the donald’s alleged larceny- on- the- links propensities have been disseminated from the august hills of Winged Foot and W.C.C. down to the peasants who tee it up at Sprain and Saxon Woods. Caddies have a habit of telling stories out of school, kind of like deeply-tanned Woodwards and Bernsteins. Never trust your servants to hold your secrets.
I know I don’t trust mine!
RE: Comment of “apparently don’t get where the state
party is at this point…inviting rudy giuliani sends
a clear message that they are taking the party in
a more moderate direction”....
You are half right, There is no State GOP….
You are wrong about Party’s sending messages….I know it as a fact his name was a big draw card and so Rudy got the call to make the event. The Party is broke, it is simple as that.
BTW…Rudy is not President is he? Told you he was too liberal.
you were right…he was too liberal for the party
so does that mean your full support is behind john McCain
and even though the state party is not only broke
but completley bankrupt..they recognize that to win
in new york they have to present a far more moderate
image..I have it on good authority …the conservative
party will no longer call the shots on nominations..
if they don’t like the republican choices they can
stay home, run their own candidates and risk getting
less than 50,000 or cross endorse