Giuliani: I “Gave My Blood” for NY Republicans

How, may I ask, did he give blood? We know all he did during the 911 days is walk around and lie to the Fireman risking their lives by telling them that there was no safety risk in the dust and debris floating around. I have neither heard nor seen anything good that this clown has done.

HA gave his blood? What did he scrape his knee getting into his seat at all those Yankee games? He spent 58 hours at yankee games in the 3 months following 911. He spent 22 at ground zero! That tells us something.
This guy just got booed to no end at the Yankee game! Those are New Yorkers speaking! Those are Americans who have experienced him first hand BOOING him! Everytime they put him on the big screen they BOOOOOOOEEEDDD him!!!

Rudy is really creeping me out with all these blood and soil references he keeps making, it reminds me of something but I can’t quite put my finger on it …

Don’t know who I can’t stand more: Rudy, Mitt or Fred. Anyway, they all deserve each other.

Wow — all these commenters seem to have problems; is it a tinfoil senstitivity? Liberals are the best, at least a laugh a day!

Mr. 9/11 is a phony only the dimmest bulbs wouldn’t spot. But on the bright side, I see him carrying Idaho.

What I want to know is how the son of a ex-con (Rudy’s dad served time in Sing Sing for armed robbery) was appointed to the #3 spot in the Justice Department and twice elected mayor of New York — without anyone ever discovering his father’s violent criminal record?

Look, no one on the Republican political scene is without some dirty laundry, none of them are perfect. Who will be the best leader (not politician)? Who will nominate strict constructionist judges? Who will be best on defense, crime, immigration, keeping our streets safe? I am pro-life, pro-traditional marriage- but I think Rudy has demonstrated that he is the most qualified to lead our nation, protect us, and keep a cool head. He is a better choice for leadership than any democratic candidate running- he can beat them all. I trust Rudy can become more conservative on social issues, – Mitt says Mitt has. Regardless, after thirty years of conservative leadership, we’ve not signicantly changed the rate of abortions in the U.S. That will require something else- a grassroots change of hearts and minds.

If he was a true conservative and republican, he would have never endorsed Mario Cuomo against Pataki, AND
He would have challenged Hillary for the Senate seat, thereby shutting down her hopes of ever being president!!!

Ah, poor Fred Thompson, trying so hard to sound like Ronald Reagan. Notice how he avoids saying “Democratic Party” and instead uses “liberal party”? Bush Republicans usually use the term “Democrat” as both noun and adjective, as in “Democrat Congress” and not the correct “Democratic Congress”. What are the poor Democrats to do? I personally like the term “Bush Republicans”.

LM: why is Rudy Giulianni more qualified than Ron Paul? You didnt really give any facts in your statement?
Not trying to call you out but, I am. Cause I hear people say that type of thing and it makes me wonder why they feel that way. I mean you realize that Giulianni has ties to the Austrailian company that is funding the NAFTA Super Highway? Do you also realize that Giulianni has cut denied health care to 60% of the 911 first responders? These are the people that he claims he supports! He uses them everytime he gets on stage he says “I survived through 911″ Yea he did that by avoiding ground zero because he knew it was toxic! He spent more time at yankee games than at ground zero.
SO….. why would he be a good leader?
Ron Paul for pres!

Gave his blood for the party? What a laugh. During Vietnam, when he had his chance to give some blood for the COUNTRY he now wants to lead, he turned tail and ran like the craven coward he is. Giuliani is a joke, a chicken, and a huckster. He’s about as manly as a Raggedy Ann doll with a child molestor on his payroll. And he all but killed 121 NYC firefighters. Believe it. All of it.

Just a point of information for the writer who complains about Thompson’s reference to the Liberal Party. In New York, there is a political party with that name. Fred was not referring to the Democratic Party, but, by its proper name, to the New York Liberal Party, whose endorsement Giuliani did seek and obtain in two political campaigns.

Yeah, but what about this:
“Rudy Giuliani, R-NY.”
“Mitt Romney, R-MA”
“Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn.”
Is RG a Repub rep-ing NY? Or, is MR still gov? Is FT still a sen?
What going on????

I’m definitely not defending Grandpa Fred, but the Liberal Party is an actual down-ballot party in New York State. Corrupt to the gills and not particularly liberal, but an actual party.

he bled for his party, untaking the toughest job a republican has ever had, taming liberl-unhinged new york. new york was a city of liberals run by liberals for a generation, and they ran it straight into the toilet: unheard of crime and murder rates, drug trafficing, peep shows and prostitutes on every corner, welfare rolls out of control, taxes through the roof, and a population that was fleeing the city. then rudy took over, transforming the failed liberl government into a true shining city on a hill, giuliani saved new york not once, but twice. he brought new york back from the brink of out of control liberalism and then rallied new york again after 9/11. he is one of the greatest chief executives this nation has ever had, and his resume and record overwhelm his republican opponents and destroy the weak records of the impotent democrat top tier.

Rudy “Ghoul” Giuliani…dying to get elected. Pathetic.

one question is why would rudy be living with gay guys?
it had to be to make a statement.
he wasn’t doing it becuase he was poor.
that was a poor decision.

If he is the candidate,Guiliani will lose the entire South with the exception of the Snowbirds in Florida, most of the Mid-West and some of the West. Pro-Abortion, Pro-Gay, Pro-Amnesty and Anti-Gun is no way to be going thru life if you want to win the Red States!!!

9/11 exploiter! Shut up Rudy, you’re favorability rating has been dropping like flies since you’ve decided to run and everyone has gotten to see the real Rudy. You’ve used up all the 9/11 you can.

DID HE GIVE HIS BLOOD TO THE G.O.P.BEFORE OR AFTER HE SUPPORTED AND VOTED FOR GEORGE MCGOVERN FOR PRESIDENT AND BEFORE OR AFTER HE VOTED FOR AND SUPPORTED MARIO CUOMO FOR N.Y. GOV. RUDY IS A TRUE PROSTITUTE.HE CONTINUESLY BRAGS ABOUT KICKING ARAFAT OUT OF A LINCOLN CENTER SOCIAL FUNCTION TO CURRY FAVOUR WITH THE CITIES LARGEST ETHNIC GROUP.HOW INCREDIBLY TACKY THAT HE THINKS HE IS DESERVING OF THE JEWISH VOTE FOR THAT GRAND STANDING.I NOTICED WHEN HE WAS IN DEARBORN MICH.LAST WEEK AT THE DEBATES ,HE NEVER BROUGHT THAT UP.COULD IT BE BECAUSE DEARBORN IS HOME TO AMERICAS LARGEST ARAB COMMUNITY?I SAID IT BEFORE AND I WILL SAY IT AGAIN,RUDY IS AN ABSOLUTE MASTER AT TAKING CREDIT FOR THINGS HE HAD LITTLE OR NOTHING TO DO WITH.I CANT WAIT FOR AMERICA TO SEE THE REAL RUDY EXPOSED.
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to bobby pins: uh, rudy was never booed at yankee stadium, i’ve got season tickets and he’s only been met with tens of thousands of cheers and applause. and i’m not sure where you’re from but most of us new yorkers clung to the yankees that year b/c it was the only thing we had that brought us any joy, the yankees and the fans that post season were a metaphor for what new york city was going through. we needed to see the yankees win b/c it represented new york city winning. you’re either not from NYC or one of those union workers who didn’t get his 5% pay raise when he was trying to get the city’s spending under control.

As a NYC resident I wish to clarify a few issues that have been brought up in these comments;
1: Rudy was loved by every NY’er, after 9/11 there was a big movement to change the NY legislature to allow a 3rd term for mayor, but Rudy declined and thats why they didn’t pass it for him.
2: Rudy did challenge Hillary for senate but pulled out due to his prostate cancer.
3: Rudy really did turn around the city, before he took over, the city was in the pits – the Crown Heights riots went unstopped by Dinkins, guliani won by a landslide.
4: Every NY’er I speak to wether Rep or Dem will be voting Rudy. (I Changed my party affiliation to Rep. so that I can vote for him in the primaries).
5: There are 4 party’s in NY, Dem, Rep, Conserv, and Lib. the C and L don’t have anyone actually elected but they do have some clout.
6: Rudy may have spent time at the Yankees games, but what is wrong with that? everyone loved him there, he threw first pitch…
7: I cant believe that Rudy spent 22 hours at ground zero! what was he doing there? do you want that he should have stood there everyday and just watch? 22 hours is way more than was needed.
8: Rudy was in the area during the attacks and actually had a hard time getting out onto the street.
9: Pataki was a failure.
10: Pataki has the power to make everyone proud of being Americans, I remember how when every issue would come up he would always make us feel proud of the city.
He has my vote! He is the only one who can unite this country.

It’s funny to see all these people attack Giuliani’s impeccable 9/11 and security and money management credentials. I think the Democrats and terrorist-apologists everywhere are scared of Giuliani and they are trying to attack him now before he’s the nominee. He’s not my first choice but I will not invent stuff to attack him because he’s a good guy who did a good job here in NY.

1. DGNY- are you at bellevue as we speak? how in the world can you justify saying the mayor brought on the 9/11 attacks? now that’s one conspiracy theory that out loons the other sickening ones.
2. yes, he and the conservative party head – Michael Long – do not get along. they never have and long’s refusal to endorse rudy had much more to do with long’s allegiance to pataki and due to long trying to have a pi**ing contest with rudy.
3. rudy didn’t endorse pataki – and after pataki’s 1st term, it was very clear that pataki was the biggest sell-out corrupt politician in NY. he passed larger budgets than his tax and spend lib predecessor cuomo. he claimed william graham sumner was his inspiration. he ran on the death penalty. and for those reasons i voted for him. but it’s very obvious that rudy knew the real deal about this guy. he ran his office like a mobster – one of them calling me late at night threatening my future with the republican party – telling me i had no future. i was a 19 year old college girl for crying out loud who wrote a letter expressing my dissatisfaction with the pataki regime.
4. police and firefighters hate rudy b/c they deidn’t get their pay raises under rudy’s watch. well, excuse me but he was trying to get the city out of the fiscal mess it was in. and i was an assistant district attorney making less money than these guys without any pay raise after 9/11 too. the terrorists put us in the financial crisis not rudy. they should stop their crying. and i actually had $200,000. of school debt to pay on my 45k a year. and i was orking 70+ hrs a week, getting paid only for 35 from the city. heaven forbid a city union worker work 5 bloody minutes without getting their overtime. please. we all know the unions belong to the democratic party so just vote for someone who is NEVER at the yankees game despite purporting to be a life long fan – Hillary. good luck with that.
GO RUDY! he transformed NYC and i’m eternally grateful.

Why is Rudy Giulianni more qualified than Ron Paul?
Interesting question posed. How about the fact that Rudy has executive experience running the largest city in the US with perhaps the most complicated social, govermnental, and physical infrastructure in the world.
He left NYC far better off than he found it. Even his critics give him that…,
Do you realize that Rudy was out of office just a few months after 911. 911 was in fact primary day for the mayoral election to replace Rudy, so the comment that he “denied health care to 60% of the 911 first responders” is bizarre.
As for Ron Paul, well, there is no need to violate the 11th Commandment. He has no shot anyway.

Judy … Real Republicans are not GUN GRABBERS, Cross dressers (one ulgy one too)and love big Gov’t! You Sir are no Republican! RON PAUL is a true Republican! RON PAUL 2008

He gave blood to his party–the Liberal Party of NY. After his Liberal Party endorsed him for major, Giuliani returned the favor by campaigning for Mario Cuomo.

As a Native New Yorker I can attest to the success of Rudy first hand. He took NYC from 100 years of Democrat mismanagement and made NYC a great place to live again. Before Rudy NYC was a Cesspool. Any honest New Yorker will admit this.

Funny how the Single Issue Homosexuals think. Lets be honest. They would vote for POL POT if he was Pro Gay.

How about the radios that didn’t work for the firemen ? And they died.
Was it that no bid contract with Motorola?

Rudy Giuliani is the most desperate politician I have ever seen.

Vote for RON PAUL he is a true republican. only one for 08.

90% of everyone posting here is from NY and they don’t seem to like Rotten Rudy. I’m from California, so I really don’t know much about him, only that he dresses like a woman every now and then, made huge mistakes before, during and after 9/11 and is more Liberal than me, who’s a Democrat!

Giuliani wants to spend hundreds of billions more taxpayer dollars to war contractors in the pointless Iraq occupation, as do the rest of the frontrunners. Romney wants to consult his attorneys about whether or not we should subvert the Constitution. I guess that leaves Ron Paul as the only conservative Republican left in the race…

“Well, I’m a Republican mayor, but I”m really not. I’m the mayor of New York City. I ran as a Republican, I ran as a Liberal — which really confuses all kinds of people — and I ran as an Independent, as part of the Independent Party, which actually is now the party that’s supporting Ross Perot. So I ran a fusion candidacy, like my predecessor Fiorello LaGuardia. So I’m not the most partisan of Republicans.” — Rudy Giuliani, 1996