NYT: Decided or Not, Giuliani Charts a Path to 2008

[DeepModem Mom]

Decided or Not, Giuliani Charts a Path to 2008
By PATRICK HEALY
Published: April 7, 2006

After four years of enjoying private life, former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani is taking several steps that could lay the groundwork for a presidential bid, strengthening alliances with Republicans nationwide and especially with conservative leaders of the party.

Mr. Giuliani's advisers say he will decide around the end of the year whether to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2008.

It is a decision that will not be made easily: Mr. Giuliani believes that his support for abortion rights, gay rights and gun control would make winning the nomination difficult, according to several friends and former City Hall aides. Some of those people, who were granted anonymity to describe conversations with the former mayor, say they have told him not to give up his comfortable new way of life for a campaign that might end in failure.

Yet Mr. Giuliani remains popular across the Republican spectrum because of his leadership during 9/11 — a role that many Americans were reminded of yesterday when he testified at the death penalty trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person to be tried in an American courtroom in connection with the attacks of Sept. 11.

Mr. Giuliani's advisers are only now starting to talk openly about the outlines of a possible national bid, but they say he could enter the race at the start of 2007, or even later, and still assemble a team and raise tens of millions of dollars in a relatively short time....

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/07/nyregion/07rudy.html?hp&ex=1144468800&en=24121cba7e22780e&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[shoelace414]

1. It's the troops fault.

[Talismom]

2. All I can say is, god for-effin-bid! He's a street thug if there ever was

one. What a nightmare!

[mdmc]

3. bring it on

Gore, Hillary, ... would wipe the floor with rudy...

[Catchawave]

4. He made MILLIONS off of 9-11

Not only personally but for the Republican Party. The 'pugs can do better to choose someone as far away from the Bushies and 9-11 as possible.

[NCarolinawoman]

5. He said there was a link between 9/11 and Sadam.

He said it over and over while campaining for Bush. You just had to know he knew better, but he went along with the cabal.

He WAS braver than Bush after the Trade Center was hit; he did get out there while Bush was hiding. But afterwards, he spread the cool-aid around pushing for the war in Iraq; and he never let up.

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[cliss]

6. Good. Let's hope they nominate

him.

And when they get into the campaign season big time, let's show some footage of Rudy Ghouliani coming out of a subway entrance in London.

On the day of the terrorist bombings.

That ought to give the Americans something to think about.