LAT/AP: Giuliani moves closer to full-fledged presidential run: Will file statement of candidacy

[DeepModem Mom]

Giuliani moves closer to full-fledged presidential run
From the Associated Press
February 5, 2007

WASHINGTON -- Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor whose popularity soared after his response to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, moved closer to a full-fledged campaign for the Republican presidential nomination today.

In a sign that he's serious about running for the White House, the two-term mayor was filing a so-called "statement of candidacy" with the Federal Election Commission. In the process, he was eliminating the phrase "testing the waters" from earlier paperwork establishing his exploratory committee, said an official close to Giuliani's campaign.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid pre-empting any disclosure by Giuliani.

Unlike chief GOP rivals Sen. John McCain and Mitt Romney, Giuliani has been somewhat ambiguous about whether or not he would ultimately pursue the Republican nomination.

He took the initial step in November of creating a committee to explore a candidacy but added the caveat that he was simply "testing the waters" -- a provision that allows truly uncertain candidates to move forward without any commitment to seek a top spot on the ticket or the need to identify donors. At the time, Giuliani also did not file an official statement declaring that he was a presidential candidate.

The steps today put Giuliani on the same level legally as McCain and Romney, the other top-tier GOP candidates who have formed regular exploratory committees and filed statements of candidacy....

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-02052007guiliani,0,2744449.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[Ignacio Upton]

1. I give him six months before he drops out

Between being pro-choice, being friends with Kerik, sharing an apartment with gay friends, and dressing up in drag, Rudy will not be popular with the right-wing base for long. Unfortunately, though, Diallo and Louima may actually help him with the right-wingers.

[Kazak]

2. Unfortunately?

It'd be a hoot if they nominated him! :rofl:

[OKNancy]

4. or one Press Conference with Donna Hanover

LOL - or her doing a commercial for Rudi's opponent

[HockeyMom]

5. He left his first wife (2nd cousin)

when she was hospitalized with a mental breakdown. I wonder whatever happened to her? Yep, Rudy's got a LOT of relationship baggage.

[bullimiami]

3. let him waste his time and republican money.

[goforit]

6. May another king of corruption step forward!

[MilesColtrane]

7. Let's not kid ourselves.

Rudy is intimately tied into the same Houston oil/finance guys who engineered Bush's elections.

Google "Bracewell Patterson Bush"

He will have almost unlimited cash to campaign with and/or buy Diebold's assurance.

The national audience had no idea how religious Junior was or wasn't before he mentioned Jesus Christ was his favorite philosopher in a debate.

That got the fundies all gooey inside.

All Rudy has to do is change his stance on a few things and drop a few code words to the religious right and he'll be gold.

Remember, there's nothing more that a fundie likes than converting a sinner, and the newly converted are often the most zealous in their beliefs.
Fundamentalists may even consider a new recruit more trustworthy, because the conversion is fresh in their experience.

He will be the Repulikker candidate come November.

BTW, FDR was married to his second cousin, and that didn't hurt him. (He didn't divorce her though.)

Marc Racicot, Bush's campaign manager in 2004 worked at the firm that is now called Bracewell & Giuliani

[DeepModem Mom]

8. I'm not underestimating Rudy and his connections either. nt

[OHdem10]

9. Remember when the Republicans

decided to put The Governator--Arnold in office,
Arnold is Pro Gay Marriage, Pro Choice culturally
very liberal, and all the "dirt" exposed about Arnold, made Bill
Clinton look like a choir-boy. When the time came
The Dobsons, Sheltons, etc. got their constituents
together and to to the voting booths they went.
Winning is what counts with Republicans even the
Religious Right. To be fair, Arnold moved Left and
won his last election.

Do Not Underestimate Rudy or any other Republican candidate
who has baggage.

[USA_1]

10. A Transvestite For President???

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[ThsMchneKilsFascists]

11. Hoover's running again? :P

[ThsMchneKilsFascists]

12. Rudy in drag flirting with Donald Trump

Presidential bid? Think not.

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

[MilesColtrane]

13. Giuliani's move to the right begins.

"2008 Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani says he would have appointed the same pro-life Supreme Court justices as President Bush.

Appearing on Fox News' "Hannity and Colmes" show, the former New York City mayor said, "The appointment of judges I would make would be very similar to, if not exactly the same as, the last two judges that were appointed," referring to Bush's selections of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito."

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Candidate_Giuliani_would_appoint_same_prolife_0206.html

with video...