Rudy coming back to Florida

Rudy Giuliani is jetting back soon to the Sunshine State for two visits: a Thursday (details to be announced) event and then a swing back next Sunday to Miami.

Giuliani isn't coming, but his campaign also is gathering supporters for a roundtable session aimed at burnishing his image Monday in Palm Beach.

The "Rudy Gets Results" gathering is billed to include State Rep. Carl Domino, R-Jupiter, and Boca Raton Mayor Steven Abrams. Several of Rudy's former cohorts in New York City are expected to take part, too.

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Where is he going???

Thursday is a fundraising event in Tampa.

GO JUDY!

Man, what a race this will be… Hillary Clinton against Judy Riuliani… either way, we get a female liberal in the O.O. Except one is incestuous!

AND SO MY FELLOW FLORIDIANS....

"Ask not what your country can do for you.... just take what you can get."

Bernard Kerik

Birds of a feather flock together.

JUST SAY NO to Rudy & JUDY in 08!!

We need no more Clinton-esque scandals in the White House.

NEW YORK TIMES

WHITE PLAINS, Nov. 9 — A federal grand jury today indicted Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York police commissioner APPOINTED BY by RUDOLPH W. GUILIANI WHILE HE WAS MAYOR, on charges that include TAX FRAUD, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE and LYING TO THE WHITE HOUSE

Bernard B. Kerik

In announcing the indictment, Michael J. Garcia, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, said:

it was a “sad day when this office returns an indictment against a former law enforcement officer, particularly one who served in positions as high as those held by Bernard Kerik.”

“But we will not hesitate to pursue any public official who violates his oath and betrays the public trust as Mr. Kerik is alleged to have done,” Mr. Garcia said. “Nor can we tolerate lies to those who are given the critical tasks of vetting individuals for important public posts.”

Mr. Kerik pleaded not guilty a short time later in United States District Court here. Magistrate George A. Yanthis said he would release Mr. Kerik on $500,000 bail. Mr. Kerik turned himself in to an F.B.I. office here earlier in the day, where he was fingerprinted and processed and then taken by United States marshals to the federal courthouse.

Mr. Kerik left the courthouse amid a throng of reporters and some protesters who criticized Mr. Giuliani and his former police commissioner.

“This is a battle,” Mr. Kerik said. “I’m going to fight.”

The charges against him together carry a maximum penalty of 142 years in prison and $4.7 million in fines. According to sentencing guidelines, he will most likely face lesser penalties.

Three years ago, Mr. Kerik was at the pinnacle of his career, having risen from a beat cop and driver to Mr. Giuliani during his mayoral campaign, to the top candidate to head the Homeland Security Department, with the backing of Mr. Giuliani, his friend and mentor.

The indictment is already looming over Mr. Giuliani’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, as he promotes himself as a tough law-and-order candidate. Mr. Giuliani, who has had no public appearances so far today, was not commenting on the matter, although on Thursday he said of Mr. Kerik that he had made “a mistake in not checking him out more carefully.”

Mr. Giuliani’s adviser, Randy M. Mastro, sought to put the matter of Mr. Kerik in perspective. “People should be fair to one another and look at the totality of their record,” he said.

Mr. Giuliani’s Republican rivals were quick to seize on the indictment of Mr. Kerik, using it to call into question Mr. Giuliani’s judgment. Senator John McCain’s campaign, upon learning of the looming indictment, hastily arranged a news conference this morning that featured the former head of the Department of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge.

The two men called into question whether Mr. Kerik should ever have been recommended for a job as important as directing a massive federal agency.

“I had a view of what the job entails,” Mr. Ridge said. “All I can say is Mayor Giuliani’s judgment is different than mine.”

Mr. McCain said he never thought Mr. Kerik was qualified for the job at Homeland Security, even before it was known that he would be indicted.

He recalled the former New York City police commissioner’s brief stint training the Iraqi police force. When Mr. McCain visited Iraq in 2003, he said Mr. Kerik was there at the time.

“He stayed a couple of months and then up and left,” he said. “That should have been a part of anybody’s judgment whether to recommend that individual to be the head of the Department of Homeland Security. His contribution to the training of the police and law enforcement people in Iraq, which was ostensibly why he was there, was less than successful.”

The campaign of Mitt Romney also moved quickly to highlight the issue, sending reporters a long list of what they said showed Mitt Romney’s long record of pressing for strict ethical standards from public officials.

The 14-COUNT INDICTMENT accuses Mr. Kerik of accepting work valued at $255,000 on his apartment from a company, Interstate Industrial Corporation, that was seeking to do business with the city. He is also accused of accepting more than $200,000 in rent payments made on his behalf to use a luxury Upper East Side apartment from a Manhattan developer with whom he had agreed to conduct business.

Mr. Kerik was head of the city’s Department of Corrections, and later police commissioner when some of the payments were made, and he was, Mr. Garcia said, “in effect, selling his office, in violation of his duty to the people of the city,” the indictment said.

Interstate, which was not named in the indictment, but referred to only as “XYZ,” was suspected of having ties to organized crime, and was seeking a city license to operate a transfer station when it paid for the work.

The indictment said that Mr. Kerik lobbied for the company by “contacting on XYZ’s behalf regulators and other public officials who were considering whether XYZ should be licensed to do business in NYC and awarded municipal-regulated business.”

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GO RUDY!!!

Are we going to elect a man to be President that didn't have the integrity to attend his only son's high school graduation?

NOT!

Are we going to elect a man who baptizes dead people of other religions?

NOT!

Are we gong to elect a man who does not believe in evolution?

NOT!!

What who cares? This is not a theological postion

Precisely, so who cares about abortion, stem cell, marriage, etc.!!!!

Hey 5:12 keep up the book blog, no one will read it, if we read books we would not be on this blog.

[Go Gators!]

Is a Vote for Rudy a Vote for War?
by Patrick J. Buchanan

11/09/2007

Rudy Giuliani has made a "promise" not to allow Iran to acquire a nuclear capability, even if it requires U.S. military action. Though the U.S. Army is scrimping to meet recruitment goals, Rudy has pledged to add at least 10 new combat brigades.

Speaking to an Atlantic Bridge conference in London, Rudy called for NATO expansion to include Japan, India, Australia, Singapore and Israel. Has Rudy thought this through?
Why would Japan and Australia, each of which already has a U.S. commitment to come to its defense, commit to go to war with a nuclear-armed Russia if it invaded Estonia? For joining NATO would require them to treat an attack on Estonia, or any other NATO nation in Europe, as an attack upon themselves.

Why should the United States commit to war for India, which has territorial conflicts and has fought wars with China and Pakistan? What vital interest is it of ours who holds Kashmir? As for Israel, are American boys now to fight Hezbollah and Hamas?

While FDR talked to Stalin, Ike and JFK to Khrushchev, and Nixon to Mao, Rudy would not talk to any "enemies bent on our destruction or those who cannot deliver on their agreements." Would he be even-handed in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute? Answers Rudy, "America shouldn't be even-handed in dealing with ... an elected democracy ... and a group of terrorists."

If Rudy rivals McCain as the hawk's hawk in the Republican race, the foreign policy advisers he has signed up make the Vulcans of Bush look like Howard Zinn and Ramsey Clark. Arnaud de Borchgrave titled his column about them "Dogs of War."

Team leader is Charles Hill, a co-signer of the Sept. 20, 2001, neocon ultimatum to Bush, nine days after 9-11, warning the president if he did not attack Iraq, his failure to do so "will constitute an early and perhaps decisive surrender to the war on international terrorism."

Yet Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11.

A second member of Rudy's team is Martin Kramer, an Israeli-American who, according to Ken Silverstein of Harper's, "spent 25 years at Tel Aviv University and whose Middle East policy can best be summarized as, 'What's Best for Israel?'" Silverstein calls Rudy's eight-man advisory group "AIPAC's Dream Team" -- AIPAC being the Israeli lobby, two of whose leaders go on trial in January for espionage against the United States
According to The New York Times, another key Rudy adviser is Daniel Pipes, "who has called for profiling Muslims at airports and scrutinizing American Muslims in law enforcement, the military and the diplomatic corps." Another is AEI's Michael Rubin, "who has written in favor of revoking the United States' ban on assassinations."

Best known of Rudy's advisers is Norman Podhoretz, who wrote in June, "The Case for Bombing Iran" in Commentary, thinks we are in "World War IV" and writes that "as an American and as a Jew, I pray with all my heart" Bush will bomb Iran. Podhoretz sees us at Munich in 1938 and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Hitler.

"Like Hitler," writes Podhoretz, Ahmadinejad "is a revolutionary whose objective is to overturn the going international order and to replace it in the fullness of time with a new order dominated by Iran and ruled by the religio-political culture of Islamofascism."

Time to return to Planet Earth. Ahmadinejad is not only jeered at Columbia but at colleges in Tehran. He is openly attacked by rivals. He does not control the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. He does not decide on war or peace. He runs a regime with 2 percent of U.S. gross domestic product, no nukes and no navy or air force to rival ours. He is a Shia in a Sunni world. How is this 5 foot, 4 inch Persian going to strong-arm the United States, Russia and China, not to mention an Israel with 300 nukes, into his "new order"?

After the axis-of-evil speech threatening war on Iraq, Iran and North Korea, Podhoretz wrote that Bush had not gone far enough.

The "regimes that richly deserve to be overthrown ... should extend to Syria and Lebanon and Libya, as well as 'friends' of America like the Saudi royal family and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, along with the Palestinian Authority." After toppling them all, wrote Podhoretz, as he mocked the "timorous ... incorrigibly cautious Colin Powell," let's find "the stomach to impose a new political culture on the defeated."

Bush found the stomach. Near 4,000 Americans are dead, 27,000 wounded, Walter Reed is full, and Norman is looking for new wars. On a recent National Review cruise, he ranted that Iraq was an "amazing success," "a triumph. It couldn't have gone better." As for Saddam's WMDs, they were secretly "shipped to Syria."

After meeting with his candidate, Podhoretz emerged happy to assure us, "There is very little difference in how he (Rudy) sees the war and I see it." If true, a vote for Rudy is a vote for endless war.

And, as James Madison said, wars are the death of republics.

Go Rudy...Run Rudy..

Please do, run back to New York!

NEWSMAX

Kerik Could Tarnish Giuliani

Friday, November 9, 2007 10:20 PM

If anything can tarnish Rudy Giuliani's armor, criminal charges against his police commissioner might do it.

Giuliani, the former New York mayor, has established himself as the front-runner in the Republican presidential race, defying predictions that his views on abortion and gay rights and his three marriages would repel conservative primary voters.

From The Boston Globe

Rivals question Giuliani's judgment
McCain, Romney make an issue of Kerik indictment

By Michael Levenson and Sasha Issenberg
November 10, 2007

Two of Rudy Giuliani's main rivals in the Republican presidential race sought yesterday to use the corruption indictment of a longtime Giuliani ally to raise questions about the candidate's judgment.

McCain says Kerik reflects on Giuliani
Giuliani ally Kerik reported indicted in New York.

John McCain said he would have never recommended Bernard Kerik to be the nation's Homeland Security director, as Giuliani did, because of Kerik's lack of qualifications and his "irresponsible" actions training Iraqi police in 2003.

"He stayed two months and one day - just up and left," McCain told reporters while campaigning in Concord, N.H. "That's not what I think are the qualifications of the head of Homeland Security."

Mitt Romney, while not directly criticizing Giuliani, said the charges against Kerik are troubling. He also had his campaign issue a compendium of speeches and news articles on Romney's call for higher ethical standards in Washington.

"You expect people who assume the public trust to abide by it and to live by high standards of ethical conduct," Romney told reporters while campaigning in Atkinson, N.H. "These allegations are very disturbing and very sad. And if they're correct, he has failed to live up to the standards we would expect."

Giuliani's campaign said yesterday that it had no comment on the indictment, referring reporters to what the former New York mayor said on the subject Thursday. He acknowledged a mistake in not checking Kerik more carefully before appointing him to high positions, but said that his overall record as mayor was one of great success.

Giuliani praised Kerik's job performance during a campaign stop yesterday in Henderson, Nev.