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Doozie and Harriet

10.10.05 @ 12:01AM

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Some people tend to overlook the fact that the former mayor treated his second wife very shabbily and that she is waiting in the wings to "get him." Also there are many women, myself included, who would cheer her on. No nomination for scuzzbug.
-- Annette Cwik

Hillary vs. Rudy? Sounds good to me. No question about it, I'd vote for Rudy.

What a wonderful campaign to watch as Rudy uses Hillary for a ping pong ball. Let's roll!
-- Nelson Ward
Ribera, New Mexico

To run for president, Rudy first has to be nominated by the Republicans. He has one big thing running in his favor, at least as far as conservatives are concerned: He was not a co-sponsor of McCain-Feingold.
-- Will Pickering

I can tell you for sure if Rudy says he will close the border he will get my vote. I think closing the border and fighting terrorists go hand in hand. Also anyone getting welfare that is able bodied should have to work for the money, even if it is nothing but picking up trash on the side of the road.
-- Elaine Kyle
Cut and Shoot, Texas

Mr. Henry does a good job of pointing out the reasons why Rudy would be a good POTUS. He seems to have all the qualities that I find so discouragingly lacking in Mr. Bush. Rudy is a take charge guy, no doubt about it. If Rudy had been POTUS, then Bernie Kerik would have been the Secretary of Homeland Security and I would have been ecstatic. It absolutely HAD to be the hand of God that Rudy was NYC Mayor on 9/11/01.

All that said, Rudy simply must lose some of the, not just moderate, but liberal social positions and proclivities before I could support him in a Repub. primary for POTUS. It is one thing to hold certain views as a private citizen, but quite another to do so as the leader of the USA, and really, the world. Gay marriage may or may not be a positive viewpoint on a one-on-one basis, but it would be disastrous as a policy for the country. I may think that it is between you and your God whether you personally support totally open abortion on demand. I also am certain that is a disastrous policy for the country to officially adopt, and like you can't be a little bit pregnant, you are either for abortion or against it -- period.

So you could say that I am conflicted as regards a President Giuliani. There is no doubt in my mind, however, that Rudy would make a formidable candidate against Ms. Hillary in '08. But there are also some others that I am more in tune with that, I believe, can also win.

Now Mr. Henry, on the other hand, as a prognosticator, has a currently insurmountable problem. His problem is North Andover, Mass. I have lived and worked in several different areas of the country. Much of that time in areas that belong more to the Heartland, or Jesus land, or Red State America. I now live in New Hampshire. Until and unless Mr. Henry gets out of hardcore New England, and stays out long enough to reprogram himself, his views and perceptions will remain fatally flawed. Hardcore New England (yes, that includes North Andover, Mass.) bears almost zero resemblance to the real America. One might as well say that we can study San Francisco or Berkeley and truly understand what the average American in the Mid-West thinks. Sorry, Mr. Henry. You are a good writer, but I wouldn't want you making my football picks for me this week, or my POTUS picks in '08.
-- Ken Shreve
New Hampshire

If the Republican Party is foolish enough to nominate Mr. Giuliani for the position of President (or Vice President), I am quite sure that those of us who are against gun control and (except for saving mothers' lives) abortion will stay home and sit on our check books -- as he would be no different from "Hillary."
-- James Pawlak
West Allis, Wisconsin

An even better argument in favor of Lawrence Henry's suggestion of a future President Giuliani is Giuliani's own book, Leadership, which I happened to have recently read while proving Mark Twain's observation that the only difference between prison and a [Caribbean] cruise is that the latter incarceration may result in drowning. I didn't drown, did experience the prison aspect, and was greatly, greatly impressed with Giuliani via the book.

Nevertheless, Giuliani's failure of conscience in the matter of abortion, and in all likelihood its twin spectre, artificially expediting the death of the inconvenient and expensive elderly, cannot be balanced or exceeded by Giuliani's extraordinarily impressive positives. A man who cannot reason his way to protect the most defenseless and most innocent cannot be relied on to protect those of us not so defenseless and certainly not so innocent. How Giuliani ultimately answers for this matter to his Creator is his own affair, but how he answers for this matter to the voter is our affair, and I must vote "no."
-- Frank Natoli
Newton, New Jersey

Reading Lawrence Henry's "Giuliani Time" I was struck by the need for a historical wake-up call for "conservatives." The retroactive falsification going on in the "conservative movement" regarding President Ronald Reagan is amazing. As a lifelong straight ticket Republican I'm stunned by the glossing over of facts about the Reagan administration. In their zeal to join the liberals in bashing President Bush some "conservatives" point to Reagan as the ideal President, understandably, but it would be nice if they'd use a modicum of honesty when hearkening back to Reagan.

Here are some facts now being conveniently ignored by the Washington and East Coast "conservatives" as they use President Reagan to bash his heir George W. Bush. President Reagan (1) failed to avenge more than 200 Marines murdered by terrorists, (2) grew the size of government, (3) chalked up massive deficits (to win the Cold War), (4) gave blanket amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, (5) cut a deal with Democrats to raise taxes in his second term, (6) adopted a Democrat scheme to "fix" Social Security and (7) appointed moderate Republicans to the Supreme Court.

President Bush, like President Reagan, cut taxes, but Bush is working to make his tax cuts permanent in the face of Democrat opposition and GOP vacillation. President Bush since 9/11 has been waging an unrelenting war against terrorists and shows no signs of losing his resolve despite negative poll numbers. President Bush has consistently appointed conservatives to the federal bench. Bush wants a managed guest worker program and not blanket amnesty for illegal aliens. Bush wants real reform of Social Security (personal accounts) despite Democrat and public opposition to the idea. Like Reagan Bush, to win his war, has been willing to turn a blind eye to the red ink and the growth of government.

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