Giuliani Doubts He Could Win GOP Presidential Nod
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says he would consider running for the
GOP presidential nomination if he were the only candidate who could beat President Obama–and if he could win the nomination. However, “It would be a real challenge for me to get the nomination, because I’m considered a moderate Republican,” Giuliani said in Dallas today, addressing a luncheon at Hodges Capital’s 2011 Investment Forum. Asked later whether he’d be interested in the vice presidential slot on a ticket with his friend Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the former mayor laughed and said, “I’m not thinking about that at all. … But I do admire Gov. Perry a lot. Anyone who attacks him on his record in Texas is making a big mistake.”
During his luncheon talk, Giuliani (pictured) said runaway health care costs are the No. 1 reason for the nation’s debt problem and struggling economy. He recommended taking responsibility for health insurance away from employers and the government, and putting it in the hands of individual consumers with a blend of tax incentives and private accounts. On foreign policy, Giuliani said America’s willingness to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan is the “only reason the country has been safe for the last 10 years.” He also ripped the administration’s timetable for troop withdrawal from that part of the world, saying a continuing U.S. presence is needed there, because “maybe 20 different groups and thousands if not hundreds of thousands would like to come here and attack us and kill us.”
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If we would just tap in to our own resources and stop depending and encroaching in the Middle East, that hundreds of thousands figure would become less than 10 total. We could also use that billion dollars a day we’re wasting over there. God, I’m losing faith in this country quickly.
he’s still running on that photo of him running up Canal St on Sept 11.
Don’t agree with him on about half of the issues. I’d vote for him. (Not because he was Mr. Daddy-Sing-Me-Back-To-Sleep-I-Had-A-Nightmare on 9/11, either, d. Rather, because Obama sucks* and the Republican field as it stands is a sad, sick joke. If we wind up electing the likes of Perry, we deserve to go down that long, dark shaft that leads to the dustbin. And we will.)
He’s a megalomaniac, but they all are. He’s out of touch (people making, say, 35K a year can’t afford a grand a month to insure their families, Rude, tax breaks or no), but they all are. He’s going to Hell in a handbasket, but we all are.
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* I quote “sucks” in Merriam-Webster’s 4a definition: “Simultaneoulsy spineless and authoritarian; a venal, militaristic creep; an inauthentic sophist. But they all are.”
@Steve,
It’s pretty much over. The country, not the wars. The wars will go on forever. Will.
And President Obama is already running as a moderate Republican
This is precisely the case, Tom.
I love how he says he wouldn’t win because he is a “moderate republican”. Ha! It’s because he’s a egomaniacal narcissist, who ran NYC like a dictator, giving his cronies (some who have since become convicted felons) positions, etc. He threw out Bill Bratton because he was getting too much credit for reducing crime. Throw in the extramarital affair, then divorce, and, yeh, it’s because he’s a moderate republican.