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How can Rudy Giuliani win the Republican nomination? See here.

"What people are looking for today is somebody from outside the Beltway who is a true leader," said state Sen. Mike Fasano, a New Port Richey Republican who is leaning strongly to Giuliani. "He and I may not agree on some of the social issues, but I look beyond that and look for someone who can lead this country."

Comments

[Ben Whetstone]

Funny how a Republican can look past someone's stance on social issues when there is an "R" after their name. I just know I am wrong though and This Mike Fasano guy was able to look past any disagreements he had with John Kerry on social issues and voted for him because he was the best man for the job and could lead the country. Me thinks not.

A bunch of fickle, forgetful hypocrites are they that call themselves Republicans.

Republicans, traditionally and historically, are defined by their consistent support of some core principles:

- small government;
- low taxes;
- strong national defense;
- support for individual freedom.

If you agree with those core princples, you are (whether you know it or not) a Republican.

The social agenda came much later, as the Party of Lincoln was highjacked by a single-minded group best compared to the Taliban for their insistence that they know best and are entitled (in some cases, madated by God) to tell others what to do.

Those who feel that THAT latter-day agenda instead, is what defines Republicanism, would do well to affiliate with a party more in line with their thinking. Like the Hezbollah.

Those people are not Republicans, they are barely conversant with core American principles of freedom and justice. I am sure Iran would welcome those like-minded folks.

The right wing-wackos first highjacked and then tried to re-invent the Republican Party. NO WAY!!

Fasano is a rock star!!!

Romney tops conservative straw poll

By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer

Mitt Romney won the most support for the Republican presidential nomination in a straw poll of GOP activists attending an annual conference.

The former Massachusetts governor got 21 percent of the 1,705 votes cast by paid registrants to the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference. They were asked who their first choice would be for the Republican nomination.

Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor whose moderate stances on social issues irks the party's right wing, was second with 17 percent.

Both were among the more than half-dozen White House hopefuls who spoke at the conference.

Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., who rounds out the top tier of serious GOP contenders, skipped the event — and was punished for it. He got only 12 percent of the vote.

Ahead of him were Romney, Giuliani and two others. Sen. Sam Brownback (news, bio, voting record) of Kansas, a favorite of religious conservatives, got 15 percent, while former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia, who says he won't decide whether to run until the fall, got 14 percent.

Of course Fasano likes Guiliani, he's for gay rights!

Romney bused in a bunch of kids to vote for him and barely won with what is supposed to be his base?

He only beat out a candidate who isn't in the race by 7 points?

This is his announcement tour and when he has organized things the best he can, is up on television across the country, and focused on a straw poll, and this is the best he can do.

McCain blows them off and comes in third and Rudy does almost as well with terrible policy positions. It's time for you to wake Romnidiots.

After coming in fifth in other straw poll this weekend, it seems that this is good news, but after all of that effort and 4 out of 5 of your prime target audience rejects you, it might be time to start planning another career option.

Romney supports gay rights too.

If Crist can maintain the big mo that he has now, the far right wing of the Republican Party in Florida will be toast. If Giuliani wins, that faction of the R. party is history.

[zhombre]

The far right faction of the Republican party walked out with Pat Buchanan several years ago. Ever read The American Conservative? On the other hand the far left faction seems to have hold of the Democratic party by the blogs, and that can be painful, to be squeezed by the blogs.

The really bad thing about the right wing of the R. party is that they have a reputation for being really mean people.

John McCain snubs them by not even showing up and he STILL gets 12%? I wouldn't call that punishment. I would call it pretty good.

THE LA TIMES POLL
Poll: Insiders favor Clinton, Romney in 2008

Party officials' opinions about presidential candidates often shape the race. Deep partisan divisions remain.

By Mark Z. Barabak, Times Staff Writer
March 4, 2007

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Mitt Romney have emerged as the leading presidential favorites among party insiders, according to a new Los Angeles Times poll, which found deep partisan divisions over the country's direction and top issues in the 2008 campaign.

The survey showed former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina in second place among Democratic Party leaders, ahead of Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. It pointed up danger signs for Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who trailed former Massachusetts Gov. Romney and former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, the leader among Republicans in national voter surveys.

Nobody cares what the insiders think.

[Zhombre]

he really bad thing about the right wing of the R. party is that they have a reputation for being really mean people.

Posted by: | March 04, 2007 at 10:28 AM

Yes, that is right. But if they are mean to you or hurt you, you can always run to your mommy or to Nancy Pelosi who is a lot like your mommmy, and tell her those mean nasty Rethugs tried to steal your lunch money to pay for tax cuts for the rich and mommy will make those mean nasty rethugs give the money back, or give it to NPR or something good like that.

HA! good try that is California.

[Zhombre]

And remember, 10:48, never let a right wing R touch you inappropriately. Never let anybody touch you inappropriately unless they are a client of the ACLU, then it's OK.

Mean people suck.

You can tell the measure of a man by the company he keeps.

Read down in the article til you read about Alan Placa.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Giuliani & Partners

http://townhall.com/blog/g/432306c2-20b7-4fb5-bb5a-008d54eaf343

[terminator]

10:46
so do liberal weenie panty waist blowhards!

President Mitt? Nah

http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070304/REPOSITORY/703040349/1028/OPINION02

10:51 if you judge Giuliani by Monsignor Placa then you have to judge about 75% of all Catholics the same way. The Catholic Church is full of pedaphiles and they've covered it up for years. Did you know your priest was playing with little boys?

[food for thought]

What people need to remember is that President Bush, when running in 1999, did NOT attend CPAC!

(Rudy) He can (win)if Republicans are pragmatic after their 2006 drubbing and focus on keeping the White House Republican in 2008.

Sorry but I didn't have anyone like Placa in my wedding as a best man as Rudy Guiliani, and also CONTINUE to have him as a business partner, weak analogy, very weak.

He should have cut him loose years ago.

CPAC Straw Poll winner Gov. Mitt Romney
March 3, 2005

http://mms.tveyes.com/transcript.asp

straw polls have no credibility

No one named Placa at Giuliani and Partners.

http://www.giulianipartners.com/executives.aspx

[terminator]

Fasano's a creep
The guy's just sleazy! He wears an ugly tupee too.

11:10 AM

Just proves CPAC will devour Romney's line of drivel as fast as anyone...Apparently, all you have to say is "I hate gays" and you've got the right wing's backing...And even Romney himself loved gays before he hated them.

Fasano is a racist

Isn't Romney pro-choice?

When he ran for office in MA, Romney was strongly committed to "a woman's right to choose." However, his position has changed, along with every other position he took in MA, with his pursuit of the WH.

Guliani? Romney? McCain?

Go ahead and nominate whomever you want, Republicans. It's a weak field no matter what and you guys are going to lose in 2008.

"- small government,low taxes, strong national defense, support for individual freedom."

That last one went by the way side awhile ago for the Republicn party.

Romney is imploding in Florida. Even Jeb has lost his power. Jeb supported candidates in the Nov election with letters, money and speeches and they lost big time. The Bush right wing ear is over :))))

Giuliani on the troops:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WLSQT1FSu8A

March 01, 2007

A tall tale in Nevada: Rudy Giuliani is doomed!

Stories about a fundraiser don't check out
By J. Patrick Coolican, Las Vegas Sun
Las Vegas Sun

Rudy Giuliani is having a fundraiser at a real estate developer's house, and the former chairwoman of the Republican Party will be there. It's a simple story, and a clean one, but somehow, just a few hours before, it was a seedy tale.

The phones began ringing, and the doom of Giuliani's nascent presidential campaign seemed imminent.

Here's the story the whispering political types were spreading around town:

Giuliani was supposed to hold a fundraiser at the home of Earlene Forsythe, former chairwoman of the state Republican Party, until his people realized Forsythe's husband is under indictment. Uh-oh.

Move it to another house in the neighborhood, that of Roger Norman.

Except Norman - or maybe it's Norman's father? - is involved in the brothel business. That's a legal enterprise in rural Nevada, but oh, man, does this look bad.

Giuliani's got enough problems with the social conservatives, what with being pro-abortion rights, twice-divorced and having lived with a couple of gay guys while mayor of New York.

Imagine this story if it hit the news wires. Nevada fundraiser, indictment, brothel.

The New York Post headline would scream, "Rudy's Nevada Madame!" John McCain would have some witty quip for Don Imus. And the Mormon Mitt Romney would look even more sainted.

Except, it doesn't check out.

Here's the truth, told here in an attempt to silence the buzz:

The Utah business partner of Steve Wark, a Nevada political consultant with ties to social conservatives, asked him to organize a fundraiser for Giuliani.

Wark's mother-in-law is Forsythe, the former Republican chairwoman whose husband was indeed indicted last year for allegedly giving an undercover agent human growth hormone.

Wark said he never considered hosting the event at the Forsythes' because their house is being remodeled.

He asked Roger Norman. Norman's father's business partner does run a brothel next to the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, but Norman is estranged from his father, so the two can't be fairly linked. As such, neither can Giuliani and the brothel.

So where's the story?

Well, there isn't one, but when the stakes are so high - the presidency - and everyone sees a potential weakness in Giuliani's family-values deficit, people will say anything.

Wark was irritated by it all. Rivals, especially people jealous of his success, will do anything to get at him and his family, he said.

"This has nothing to do with the presidential level," he said. "This has to do with a small group of small-minded people clawing for some type of political legitimacy."

Fair enough.

Still, the episode highlights how fragile a presidential campaign can be, and Giuliani may have found himself a little close to the wrong neighborhood after dark.

Pete Ernaut, a Republican consultant and lobbyist, emphasized that he hasn't been talking about Giuliani or this incident, but he said, "It all comes down to good staff work. It's very important for these presidential candidates to have good political professionals on the ground who do solid research, and that's more important than having marquee names."

The first rule of political consulting, he said, "Raise clean money."

The marquee names might then follow. In this case, Wark says, the guest list includes Wayne LaPierre, chief executive of the National Rifle Association, and actor Tom Selleck.

I was a big Giuliani fan until I heard Fasano was too. Memo to Karen Unger: don't tout Fasano as one of your supporters. He is the kind of "Republican" that is part of the problem in our party, not part of the solution.

A future President? Please no!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IrE6FMpai8

It's Giuliani Time...

I think he's great. He has a sense of humor. He's not thin-skinned.

GO RUDY!

Frankly, to win in '08 we need all "factions" of the party to work together. This bickering has got to stop. Fasano's reasoning for his support of American's Mayor is right on. People are tired of partisan fighting...and social issues, while extremely important to 22% of the electorate, are not the issues that will carry the day in '08.

Tom Gallagher learned the hard way that you can't run on issues that carried the day in the prior election cycle.

The issue of leadership will be important in the '08 cycle to be sure. That puts Guiliani in the game. You can't count McCain out...and Romney does appear to be immerging as the Conservative alternative (although his record doesn't stack up as well).

As for straw polls, at this point they are very insignificant....

The only battle that seems to be taking place is between Romney, Brownback and possibly Gingrich for the crucial conservative wing of the party...crucial because Republicans will not win in November without them.

It will be the most wide-open race for President in over 50 years...

Romney is not running on the issues that Gallagher ran on.

I think some on this blog beat that comparison into the ground.

Romney does stand for something though besides taking the squeegees off the street and cleaning up crime.

He has a backbone, a tremndous fiscal background and has the vision for public polcy that is required to steer this nation foward.

You are right though, the party factions need to come together to suppport the one that can beat the Democrat, so please join the Romney Express.

Brownback cannot raise the money and Newt cannot win the nomination as good as he is.

Go Mitt.

Romney Express? What a joke. He does not have even a half of one chance. NO CHANCE of winning a general election.
He's the one term governor of taxachusetts. No foreign policy experience. Zip. No military service. And he's a flip-flopping Mormon.

What have you been smoking?

I know what you Romney people think. You think you can persuade the right wing of the Republican party that Romney is a conservative. And you think he will come out of no where like Bill Clinton did in 1992 - unknown governor of small state.

But you forget that we all lived through 911 and that changed everything. The Republicans are looking for competence. Someone they can trust. Rommney does not project that image.

Romney is toast...

who is able to beat Hillary by the numbers, in polls? repubs should go for him. if rudy then they will rally. no dems in 08! prepare to lose

[Catholics for Romney]

If Fasano's for Rudy, then i'm for anyone else. Clearly he doesn't uphold the tennants of his faith. Just a vicious, powerhungry closet-something.

I think most would say that Fasano is a pretty humble guy. he knows he won't ever be a bigshot and thats ok

Fasano power-hungry? Funny