Giuliani: I Want To Be President Like Bush - Giuliani praises Bush's Iraq policy, foresight...

[bridgit]

He disparages a Senate nonbinding rebuke on a visit to California to build a GOP campaign base for the presidency. :freak:

'SACRAMENTO — Republican presidential hopeful Rudolph W. Giuliani praised President Bush's war leadership on Saturday and mocked supporters of a nonbinding congressional resolution condemning the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq.

The former New York City mayor came to Bush's defense as he promoted his White House candidacy at a California Republican convention. Drawing parallels between Iraq and America's Civil War, Giuliani compared Bush's political troubles to Abraham Lincoln's. When the Civil War was unpopular, Giuliani said, Lincoln "kept his eye ahead."'

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-giuliani11feb11,1,3653102.story?coll=la-news-politics-national

[stray cat]

1. Lincoln was competent enough to change course

when a general didn't work.

[charlie]

5. Lincoln didn't brand Davis

an Evildoer and then invade Canada, like our boy wonder.

[stray cat]

21. Truly accurate point!

[Proud2BAmurkin]

2. Comparing Lincoln with Little Lord Pissypants. ROFL

:rofl:

[Maven]

3. Let him keep talking that way.

In fact, I think we should help him along with a new campaign slogan:

GIULIANI = MORE BUSH

[ixion]

4. whoopsy daisy... Rudy just sunk his bid

why would you try and associate yourself with a preznit who has a 30% popularity rating? :crazy:

[Olney Blue]

6. I thought America's mayor was smarter than that.

Rudy, we can stick a fork in you now. You are done.

[bridgit]

7. nope, parently not...

[jakem]

8. that is one batshit strategy for election! n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. He also PROMISED to appoint "STRICT CONSTRUCTIONIST JUDGES"

to the SCOTUS to placate his anti-abortion RW wacko, insane, fundie crowd. He will never get their vote. He supports Gay rights, abortion and gun control. The RWers really don't have a candidate worth a crap. Romney is a flip-flopper. Giuliani is trying to spin his way out of his longtime positions. McCain supports an illegal war that the majority of citizens want ended. Huckabee is a RW evangelic who may win the religious right, but isn't going to win the vote of moderate repukes. Brownback is a RW religious wacko who is in the same boat as Huckabee. The repukes are TOAST in '08.:)

[Me.]

10. Good, Keep Talking Like That Rudy

You'd be a disaster as a president and when this one leaves no one is going to want to put a facsimile of him back in the WH. Nyers were sick to death of you, with good reason. Heard on a panel (think Tweety's show) the other day where someone said NY State republicans don't think he'll stick the race if the going gets tough. They point to his dropping out in the Senate race against Hillary. He could have run it, despite the prostate cancer, but his polls weren't good against her and he ran like a chicken.

[Nite Owl]

11. Thanks Rudy

Keep up the good work. Does this now mean the dem, whomever it might be, will win the 70% or so that don't agree with you? Now that's a mandate.

[OKNancy]

12. He is so out of it

He is deluded if he thinks he will win the Republican nomination, much less the general.

[mix]

18. so true!

also, it is strange seeing this guy, romney, mccain et al chasing after the most reactionary elements of american society : will this work anymore?

perhaps i am overly optimistic, but this ultra-conservative crap seems to have outlived it's shelf-life

[Gabi Hayes]

13. A man is known by the company he keeps....

"Bernie, thank God George Bush is our president." -- from his speech at the Republican convention, 2004

[bridgit]

14. hahaha, now isn't that a chummy little pic...

:rofl:

[Arugula Latte]

15. Keep appealing to the 28 percent, Rudy!

Thaaat's the ticket -- to Loserville.

[tabasco]

16. Political suicide.

Go ahead and swirl down the toilet with them Rudy. It's just what you deserve.

[bridgit]

27. like hitting the lotto...

:bounce:

[Faux pas]

17. Where in the hell does that party get their kool aid? Maybe his

campaign slogan should be: Want Another A**hole For President? Vote Giuliani.

Sheesh.

[Acadia Blue]

19. He is definitely certifiably insane if he think piglet did a good job,

and he wants to continue in the same vein.

[kentuck]

20. No, you don't , Rudy....

Not if you want to be President. :)

[senseandsensibility]

22. I Kand R'd this so that others will see it.

The more the better. Let's get it on the homepage.

[Gabi Hayes]

24. just in case you missed this one.....not that I'm trying

to honk my own horn, or anything, but there are some interesting tidbits there, and I really think that the M$M is going to propel him EASILY to the nomination, so watch out.

if they could do it with a brainless twit like Bush, think what they'll do with a man with an already established heroic MYTHOS

I'm sick to my stomach thinking about it

[senseandsensibility]

25. Do you have another thread about this?

How is this honking your horn? Not that you'd ever DO that. I agree with everything you said. It's unbelievable that this could happen, but at the same time soooo predictable.

[Gabi Hayes]

28. har....I thought I included the link in the post to which you're responding. here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=151710&mesg_id=151710

[Gabi Hayes]

23. anybody remember how Rudy became a public figure?

http://www.vdare.com/roberts/injustice2.htm

[bridgit]

26. he'll just come on with maximal doom & gloom to cover his tracks...

i say it won't succeed, but that's what he's already doing