Mayors for the mayor

Leaving no endorsement unturned, the Giuliani campaign today announced "Florida Mayors for Rudy." Among them: Beverly Billiris of Tarpon Springs and Jack McDonald of Palm Beach.

Steven Abrams, Mayor of Boca Raton *
Chris Arbutine Sr., Mayor of Belleair Bluffs
Juan Carlos Bermudez, Mayor of Doral*
Jay John Beyrouti, former Mayor of Redington Shores
Beverly Billiris, Mayor of Tarpon Springs
Yioset De La Cruz, Mayor of Hialeah Gardens
John Eckbert, Vice Mayor of Winter Park
Jim Humphrey, Attorney, former Mayor of Ft Myers*
Carol M. McCormack, Mayor of Palm Shores
Jack McDonald, Mayor of Palm Beach
Mary Beth McDonald, former Mayor of Vero Beach
Greg Northup, Mayor of Daytona Beach Shores
Jose Rodriguez, Vice Mayor of Boynton Beach
Julio Robaina, Mayor of Hialeah *
Jim Ronecker, Mayor of Oldsmar
Ralph F. Schenck, former Mayor of Lake Worth
William George Stacey, Mayor of Melbourne Beach
Roland D. Via, Mayor of Holly Hill
* previously announced

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Giuliani's Hold on Lead Spot Is Eroding
By RUSSELL BERMAN
Staff Reporter of the Sun
November 12, 2007

http://www.nysun.com/article/66255

WASHINGTON — Mayor Giuliani's hold on the front-runner's perch in the Republican presidential nomination is eroding, with two new polls showing that Mitt Romney is opening up a widening lead in New Hampshire, site of the first primary.

While Mr. Giuliani has maintained his lead in national polls and in several state surveys, the former Massachusetts governor is now comfortably ahead in both Iowa and New Hampshire, two hotly contested early-voting states that have traditionally played a crucial role in determining the Republican nominee.

Mr. Romney opened up a 12-point lead over Mr. Giuliani in New Hampshire, 32% to 20%, in a Boston Globe/University of New Hampshire poll released yesterday. He leads in the state by 11 points in the latest Marist College poll, also released yesterday. Senator McCain of Arizona, who in an appearance yesterday on "Fox News Sunday" guaranteed a Granite State victory, is running third in both surveys.

The polls indicate that Mr. Romney has solidified his advantage and perhaps shifted the dynamic of the Republican race, after several surveys in September suggested Mr. Giuliani had closed the gap in New Hampshire. Mr. Romney has held a consistent double-digit lead since the summer in Iowa, where voters will cast the first presidential ballots in a caucus on January 3.

"Certainly he has to be seen as the front-runner now," a political scientist and pollster at the University of New Hampshire, Andrew Smith, said yesterday of Mr. Romney.

For Mr. Giuliani, the latest slide comes as he has put renewed emphasis on winning New Hampshire, hoping to prevent a sweep of the first two contests by Mr. Romney. If Mr. Romney won both Iowa and New Hampshire, it would give him a significant jolt of momentum heading into Michigan, South Carolina, and Florida, which hold primaries later in January.

Compounding the former mayor's problem is the recent federal indictment of a former New York police commissioner, Bernard Kerik, who Mr. Giuliani recommended to President Bush as a nominee for secretary of homeland security in 2004.

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5:20 The New York Sun. A fine New York Newspaper. Let's see, there is the Daily News, the NYT, and the New York Post. What the hell is the New York Sun?

GOP USA today

Endorsement Says More About Pat Than Rudy

By Doug Patton
November 12, 2007

Pat Robertson has endorsed Rudy Giuliani for the presidency.

EXCUSE ME while I yawn.

Apparently, Pat didn't get the memo that Rudy stands for all the things he (Robertson) has claimed to oppose with every fiber of his being for the last forty years. And apparently Rudy didn't get the memo that Pat's influence with the so-called "religious right" peaked about a decade ago and has been declining rapidly ever since.

Dr. Marion G. "Pat" Robertson is a very intelligent man. He holds a law degree from Yale and a doctor of divinity degree from Princeton. He founded the Christian Broadcasting Network, Regent University and the Christian Coalition, the once-powerful pro-family organization formed after his failed 1988 campaign for President of the United States. By any standard, including his dazzling personal wealth, he is, at 77, a highly successful man.

Once upon a time, Pat Robertson's opinion meant a lot among pro-family voters. At the height of its influence, in the 1990s, the Christian Coalition was the flagship organization of the pro-life and pro-family movements. With affiliates in every state and membership rolls in the millions, the Christian Coalition was a political colossus. From 1989 until 1997, under the sure and steady leadership of the organization's young executive director, Ralph Reed, the fortunes of many a federal, state or local politician rose or fell because of the Coalition's potent voter guides, which spelled out candidates' positions on issues of importance to religious conservatives.

But Reed left the Christian Coalition a decade ago, and since that time Robertson has watched his once-mighty organization falter and become a mere shadow of itself. As the Christian Coalition's chairman and president, Robertson went through a succession of executive directors, field directors and state leaders. I know. I was one of them, having served as a Christian Coalition state executive director for three years in the mid-nineties, and having left at the same time Reed did.

Pat Robertson has made some highly publicized statements over the years that have eroded his credibility with social conservatives. He said that hurricanes were part of God's judgment on America. And he told the grieving families of those murdered on September 11, 2001, that their loved ones were snuffed out because of abortion and homosexuality.

For me, however, the last straw with Robertson came well before 9/11, in the spring of 2001, when CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked him about China's abhorrent one-child policy, which has led to a holocaust of forced abortions and other atrocities.

Robertson, who was reported to have had investments in China at the time, said: "I don't agree with it, but at the same time, they've got 1.2 billion people, and they don't know what to do. If every family over there was allowed to have three or four children, the population would be completely unsustainable. I think that right now they're doing what they have to do. I don't agree with forced abortion, but I don't think the United States needs to interfere with what they're doing internally in this regard."

As I wrote in a column at that time, "while it is true that no one has had a greater impact on the conservative political agenda than Pat Robertson, it is also true that it is time for the grand old man of the religious right to retire."

The Christian Right is now leaderless, and Pat Robertson only makes matters worse by continuing to pretend that he speaks for a splintered, disenchanted movement.

Jerry Falwell is gone. Dr. James Dobson says he may endorse a third party candidate, while ignoring solid pro-family Republicans. Activist Christian leaders Paul Weyrich and Bob Jones III have endorsed Mitt Romney. Sen. Sam Brownback dropped out of the race himself and threw his support behind John McCain. And Pat Robertson has endorsed "America's Mayor," the pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-gun control, pro-illegal immigration Rudy Giuliani.

Once, Pat Robertson spoke for me and my family. Now, sadly, he can't even seem to speak for himself.

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Wow...That's huge! Honestly, I'm waiting for the Dogcatchers for Rudy to be announced!

I'm waiting for the Incesteous, cross-dressing, exploiters of American live for political gain club to endorse Judy any day now!

don't worry, it won't be rudy, fla is fixin it for Mitt boy right now...and using the fla dem party to do it! who will run with mitt? alan bense?

Mayor McCheese of McDonaldland

I really is over the top with these "support groups" but don't they all do it? Maybe they need a bathroom support group while they're at it....

Mitt will be the R nominee and lose spectacularly to Hill. Cristi will definitely ey Billary's VP candidate.

The Hildabeast will fly into the White House on her broom. America as we know it will be just like those flag after her news conference last weekend...tumbling!

^correction: flags not flag