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New York Times writer Danny Hakim reports that Rudy Giuliani has decided not to run for Governor of New York. Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has decided not to run for governor next year after months of considering a candidacy, according to people who have been told of the ...
Rudy Giuliani is reportedly getting prepared to run for Governor of New York. ALBANY — Nineteen months after ending his disastrous run for the presidency, Rudolph W. Giuliani is clearing a path for a possible race for governor in 2010, believing public anger at an ineffectual Albany and unease ...
Former Rudy Giuliani speechwriter John Avlon, author of Independent Nation: How the Vital Center Is Changing American Politics, has a new feature for CNN’s “American Morning:” Wingnuts of the week. Here’s how Avlon introduces the segment: We’re trying out a new segment on “American Morning” called “Wingnuts of the ...
John Avlon, Rudy Giuliani, Cynthia McKinney, Michele Bachmann, extremists, kooks
You’re not going to believe this one. Newsweek reporter Michael Hastings, while covering the presidential campaign, entertained fantasies about “taking out” Rudy Giuliani. And now he’s talking openly about it, and about his underhanded dealings with the John McCain campaign, as he pretended to be friendly and sympathetic while looking ...
Election 2008, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Newsweek, Media Bias
Sarah Palin is about to speak, so I’m moving the live stream to this thread... [Live streaming now shut down...]
LGF, St. Paul, Minnesota, Republican Convention, RNC, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin
Another thread for the GOP Convention, as Hawaii governor Linda Lingle testifies...
LGF, St. Paul, Minnesota, Republican Convention, RNC, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin
Let’s see if the embedded version of the Ustream live feed from the convention works: The live stream has moved to the newest thread...
LGF, St. Paul, Minnesota, Republican Convention, RNC, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin
It’s time to start the liveblogging discussion threads for tonight’s extravaganza; you can watch a live feed over the web at C-SPAN. UPDATE at 9/3/08 5:48:57 pm: The official GOP Convention site also has a good video stream: Videos | 2008 Republican National Convention | GOPConvention2008.com. (Hat tip: Thanos.) ...
LGF, St. Paul, Minnesota, Republican Convention, RNC, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin
Here’s the schedule for tonight’s featured speakers at the convention: 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. Speaker: GOPAC Chairman Michael Steele Speaker: Former Gov. Mitt Romney (Mass.) Speaker: Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (Ark.) Musical Performance: John Rich, Gretchen Wilson, and Cowboy Troy 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Speaker: Former Mayor ...
LGF, St. Paul, Minnesota, Republican Convention, RNC, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin
Featured keynote speaker at the Republican Convention: Rudy Giuliani. Former New York City mayor and presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani will be the keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention, which begins Monday, September 1st. His Tuesday night address will follow primetime speeches from Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and ...
LGF, Election 2008, GOP, Republican, convention, Rudy Giuliani
Contrast Nedra Pickler’s glowing, effusive article on John Edwards with Devlin Barrett’s deadpan story on Rudy Giuliani: Giuliani to exit presidential race. ORLANDO, Fla. - Rudy Giuliani told supporters Wednesday he’s abandoning his bid for president and backing Republican rival and longtime friend John McCain.
Some interesting foreign policy ideas from Rudy Giuliani today, definitely not in the isolationist vein: Giuliani Will Back a ‘Surge’ in Afghanistan. A closer focus on the way terror gangs use the internet is very welcome; the ability of the jihadists to exploit the internet to plan, share information, and ...
Andrew Cline at OpinionJournal thinks The Only Man Who Can Save America just might ace Rudy Giuliani and come in third in New Hampshire: Ron Beats Rudy? If that happens, will I suddenly find new respect for Ron Paul? In a word, no. But hey, maybe it is time for ...
David Frum comments on that ugly cover story at Pat Buchanan’s American Conservative magazine: I, Rudy? Have we really reached the point where a magazine that masquerades under the label of “conservative” thinks that the very worst possible allegation to throw against a president is that he has advisers ...
LGF, Rudy Giuliani, Election 2008, Pat Buchanan, Glenn Greenwald
This is the cover of the new issue of Pat Buchanan’s American Conservative magazine, featuring an article by the far left’s most dishonest blogger, Glenn Greenwald. It’s a monumental convergence of idiocies. Lovely. (Hat tip: Joel.) UPDATE at 12/20/07 10:27:01 am: Here we see Pat Buchanan meeting with Filip ...
LGF, Rudy Giuliani, Election 2008, Pat Buchanan, Glenn Greenwald
Politico.com is trying to promote a Giuliani “scandal” today in advance of the debate, but when you dig into the details there doesn’t really appear to be much there; Allahpundit has a good roundup: Politico: Rudy hid security expenses for visits to Judi in obscure city agency budgets? Update: “The ...
In yet another paid press release that looks like a news report, the Council on American Islamic Relations urges Rudy Giuliani to reject Pat Robertson’s endorsement. WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today urged GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani to reconsider ...
LGF, CAIR, Council on American Islamic Relations, Radical Islam, Hamas, Pat Robertson, Rudy Giuliani
Here’s an endorsement I didn’t expect Rudy Giuliani to get: Pat Robertson Endorses Rudy Giuliani for President. UPDATE at 11/7/07 8:22:04 am: Hot Air has the vidclip: Pat Robertson to endorse Giuliani; Update: Video added. UPDATE at 11/7/07 8:26:29 am: Tammy Bruce detects a certain scent about this: What’s that ...
The Council on American Islamic Relations, unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding trial, have launched another scurrilous, distorted attack on Rudy Giuliani and Daniel Pipes. As usual, they’re using PRNewsWire, a paid press release service, to do it. I wonder if PRNewsWire has any provisions in their ...
LGF, CAIR, Council on American Islamic Relations, Radical Islam, Hamas, Holy Land Foundation, Daniel Pipes, Rudy Giuliani
Here’s the speech Rudy Giuliani gave at the Family Research Council Values Voters Summit, because it’s always best to go to the source material instead of relying on MSM reports. And also because it really is a great speech.
Can Rudy win over the social cons by promising to be honest about his views? Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, walking into a political lion’s den, told the year’s largest gathering of social conservatives that he is “not always the best example of faith” but that their similarities ...
Here’s Daniel Pipes on the difference between Rudy Giuliani and George W. Bush. ’Would You Buy a Used Hawk From This Man?“ runs the title of a Oct. 15 Newsweek smear of presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, suggesting that the mayor’s advisors, ”some of the Bush era’s most assertive neoconservatives,“ ...
Here’s a good piece by Deroy Murdock on the religious right’s self-defeating campaign to excommunicate Rudy Giuliani: It’s Wrong for the Right to be Rudyphobic. What do Giuliani’s Religious Right detractors really fear he will do about abortion? If he can overcome their suspicions, secure the GOP nomination, and ...
I know many fighters in the lizard army watched James Dobson tonight on the Hannity and Colmes show. Here’s an open thread to discuss what he had to say—and for the record, I could not possibly disagree more with his position on Rudy Giuliani. Have at it... UPDATE at 10/8/07 ...
Rudy Giuliani’s pre-election foreign policy statement has been published at Foreign Affairs: Foreign Affairs - Toward a Realistic Peace - Rudolph Giuliani. Big LGF kudos to Rudy for being first out of the gate with a serious, reasoned examination of the important foreign policy issues facing the US. Here’s the ...