Giuliani Tries to Assure Conservatives

[Flabbergasted]

Source: Forbes

Giuliani Tries to Assure Conservatives
By JIM KUHNHENN
10.20.07, 4:03 PM ET


WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani tried to find peace with a restless bloc of the Republican Party Saturday, telling religious conservatives not to fear him for his stand on issues such as abortion or expect he would change purely for political advantage.

The GOP presidential candidate sought common ground with his audience by casting himself as an imperfect man who has asked for guidance through prayer.

He offered assurances that despite his support for abortion rights, he would seek to lower the number of abortions. He pledged that if elected, he would appoint conservative judges, support school choice and insist on victory in Iraq - all issues important to the audience at the Values Voter Summit.

A straw poll released at the event Saturday placed Giuliani in eighth place, second to last. The top vote-getter was former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

In a 40-minute speech received with polite applause, the former New York mayor invoked, as he often does, Ronald Reagan's admonition that "my 80 percent friend is not my 20 percent enemy."


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[TwilightGardener]

1. Rudy didn't tank--that's a shame. He knew he wouldn't win the straw poll,

but you have to say he had guts to show up and try to reassure them. And Mittens the Mormon beat out a Baptist Preacher. I was betting on a Huckabee runaway victory.

[tom_paine]

2. "I Will Drink the blood of our Godless Foes and Smite Them With His Wrath!"

Try that one on for size, NineElevenani! It might work better than the bullshit you're trying now.

[PSPS]

3. The AP tries to play this differently on their radio reports

They play Giuliani's pandering quote and, when the audience starts their "polite applause," they goose up the volume and it even sounds like they've enhanced it -- kind of like the "Wilhelm Scream" effect.

(The corporate media has used a version of The Wilhelm Scream extensively during their "coverage" of GOP political events so that their favored candidate comes across as more popular.)

[TwilightGardener]

4. To be fair, Rudy's speech was given pretty good reviews considering

the audience was hostile, but at least he didn't get a big boost out of it.

[sam sarrha]

5. let's see campaign posters of Giuliano in his white Marlyn dress... G___ for 1st Lady 08

:rofl:

[scarface2004]

6. assure them what???

that he ll bend over and let them take turns ramming his ass!!! fucking right wing whore bitch!!!

[tsumbra]

7. The Ricky and Rudy Show

In Texas the hair is big - and the B.S. is even bigger?
"To Hair and To Hair Not"
ilovepoetry.com/viewpoem.asp?id=93610

[dickbearton]

8. Always amusing how the RW media (Forbes is a RW rag) calls them the values crowd...

Yeah, right, Nazi Germany's values. These so-called Christians
wouldn't know Christ, if he walked up and slapped them in the
face, like they think he does. 

[brentspeak]

9. It's hard to tell who's the bigger phony: Romney or Rudy

Between Romney's "I'm the NRA" and Rudy's "I'm born again", there's a lot to laugh about.

[Grandrose]

10. Why is it assuring when Repubs....

and pandering when it's Democrats? Values Voters/Repubs and Special Interests/Dems, the MSM sucks!:eyes:

[tomg]

11. "casting himself as an imperfect man"

Well, it certainly beats calling himself "a ghoulish vampire who has campaigned for the presidency on fear." It is what we call meiosis.