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ringmastery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 11:37 AM
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More rumblings about Bush dumping Cheney for Guilani
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=237002004

US PRESIDENT George Bush is ready to pull off the biggest shock of this year’s election campaign by naming Rudy Giuliani as his running mate at the Republican convention in Manhattan in September.

Giuliani remains the most popular politician in the US and speculation is mounting that Bush will announce the former New York mayor as his vice presidential candidate as the country marks the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

The Republican party has already carried out canvassing of voters to assess how much support Giuliani has across the country and, according to reports, received high levels of public support.

The public has not forgotten Giuliani’s stoic leadership in the dark days after 9/11, when his words and actions became a beacon for the American people.

Analysts believe Bush, who lags behind Democratic frontrunner Senator John Kerry in opinion polls, would benefit from tapping into Giuliani’s popularity.

Dozens of polls since 2001 have shown Giuliani to be the most popular politician in the US, even though he has not held public office since Michael Bloomberg took over the post of mayor of New York in 2002.

Leading commentator Al Neuharth, the man who created USA Today, said Bush would do what his father did not - namely dump his vice president, currently Dick Cheney.

Neuharth said the ideal time for the announcement would be at the Republican convention in September, commemorating 9/11 at Ground Zero.

Bringing Giuliani on board would be a massive boost for Bush, who is lining up to run as a ‘war President’, concentrating on the war on terror rather than the war in Iraq.
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Snow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 11:43 AM
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1. And Giuliani explains this to his gay friends how? Ain't gonna happen eom
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 11:44 AM
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2. guiliani is a social liberal...
Edited on Mon Mar-01-04 11:51 AM by lionesspriyanka
he supports vocally gay rights and womens rights especially abortion rights...not going to happen

on edit: i dont like guiliani personally but i will say this: during 9/11 he was a real leader in ny unlike the fuking bushies...
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ButterflyBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 01:45 PM
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3. ain't happening
the GOP would never put someone as pro-choice, pro-gay and anti-gun as Giuliani on a national ticket. Giuliani would even have trouble winning a statewide primary in Minnesota.
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leyton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 07:14 PM
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4. How desperate does that look?
Dubya schedules the convention for early September.

In New York City.

And picks Rudy Guiliani to be his mayor.

And for some reason I don't think people would see right through it.
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arcos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 08:40 PM
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5. If Giuliani ends up in the ticket, expect Roy Moore to get 10% n/t
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notbush Donating Member (616 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 01:17 AM
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6. Of all the things to worry about today...
this ain't one of them.
Shit, we're tryin' to elect a nominee.
Let's worry about who we're running against, after we know who we're running with.
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