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“It’s Like Our First Team Is Standing On the Sidelines” N.H. Voter waiting For Palin To Announce.
Posted by M.Joseph Sheppard At Palin4President2016 on July 17, 2011
The Los Angeles Times, which admittedly has, of recent times, been comparatively fair and balanced when it comes to prospective GOP candidates-especially Sarah Palin, (guilt for past bias?) has a substantial article on Rudy Giuliani,who is currently on a tour of New Hanpshire.
The article contains an interview with Giuliani where his past campaign, which was a poorly thought our affair, his possible run in 2012 ” he has given thought little about whether he will enter the 2012 race” but is leaving his options open “based on whether any of the candidates can beat Obama”.
I have expressed the belief that Giuliani would be an ideal VP candidate for Sarah Palin bringing so much to that team as regards experience, executive management, foreign affairs experience, business management andof course respect.
This viewed was shared by GOP activists-he ran away with an on line poll I conducted on who should be Palin’s VP pick when experienced potential candidates were considered.
What stood out from the article however was a quote from a 73 year activist who came to hear Giuliani and who had supported him in 2008;
“And there are clearly some voters who share that view, like Jack Hughes, 73, who volunteered for Giuliani’s effort last time.
Hughes and his wife, Joanne, who attended Giuliani’s New London drop-by Friday, said they were unimpressed by the choices and were waiting for entries by Giuliani, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
“It’s like our first team is standing on the sidelines,” Hughes said. Though he spoke glowingly of Giuliani’s efforts to clean up New York — which would be central to his campaign — Hughes said he and his wife were disappointed by Giuliani’s last campaign. “
Mr. Hughes shows the wisdom of his age and his long time in politics with this observation that the “heavy hitters” have not yet come up to bat-particularly Palin without whose decision, one way or the other, no realistic assessment of who is going to get the nomination can be made. Should she decide to run a Palin/Giuliani team would be formidable in 2012.
ORIGINAL POST AT; M. JOSEPH SHEPPARD’S ‘A POINT OF VIEW’
Joy said
I have to echo those sentiments, too, MJS – and I, too, worked the phone banks for Giuliani’s campaign out here in CA as a runup to the 2008 campaign. I was a Giuliani supporter from the get-go; and even though I shared most Conservative beliefs with my Conservative friends, those of us on that campaign team were on board with his so-called “liberal” agenda – we felt that the foreign policy side and his experience with anti-terrorism tactics & policies far outweighed those so-called “social” concerns.
The one thing that both surprised and disappointed us was the fact that the GOP voters we called (from all across the political spectrum) were only mildly interested in Giuliani as the candidate – I’d say that the response was around 25 percent, and these were just names on the voter registration rolls.
When he cancelled his campaign so abrupty, we were even more disappointed – it was as is he stopped the campaign before it had really begun.
So, I see the wisdom of his being a VP pick bec. of his wide support among Independents and even some Libs (at least, partially reflecting his huge popularity rating for a long time following 9/11). He would be a sort of Dick Cheney to Palin’s less “entrenched” belief system. I think that sounds good. But how old is Giuliani now?
E. Levenson said
Sarah is not about to select an admitted adulterer who believes in s woman’s right to choose death but not the unborn child’s right not be be chosen, to the #2 slot in the nation. It isn’t a conservative Tea Party Republican thing to do. True to her very high standards I would expect Sarah to place the person most capable of fulfilling both the duties of president as well as assuming the mantle of positive roll model for the nation. The person I myself see as most fitting for this position is Senator Jim DeMint.
Doc Kimble said
I am an avid supporter of Sarah Palin. I am also a Roman Catholic. If Rudy Giuliani is running with Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin will not get my vote. It is a step in the wrong direction to try to find a Catholic to run with Governor Palin, just to try to get the Catholic vote. Such political vote-hunting is not what I believe Sarah Palin is all about. I feel very badly that Catholics really made the difference for Mr Obama’s becoming President. I don’t believe those Catholics who voted for Mr Obama will vote for Sarah Palin just because she has a Catholic running mate. Until now, Governor Palin , from what I have learned of her record, does the right thing because it’s the right thing to do. Rudy does what is the right thing if it’s the right thing to do…except when it comes to abortion. Relativists appreciate this, but people who know what’s right and wrong wouldn’t trust Rudy Giuliani as far as they can throw him.A Palin/ Giuliani team would be the end of a pleasant idea for me, but it won’t change my faith in God, who always is available to tell us what’s right and wrong.