I refuse to concede that President Bush doesn’t have a true ideological heir in the current Republican field when you have Rudy Giuliani running around saying bullshit like this:
“I listen a little to the Democrats and if one of them gets elected, we are going on defense,” Giuliani continued. “We will wave the white flag on Iraq. We will cut back on the Patriot Act, electronic surveillance, interrogation and we will be back to our pre-Sept. 11 attitude of defense.”
He added: “The Democrats do not understand the full nature and scope of the terrorist war against us.”
After his speech to the Rockingham County Lincoln Day Dinner, I asked him about his statements and Giuliani said flatly: “America will safer with a Republican president.”
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“This war ends when they stop coming here to kill us!” Giuliani said. “Never ever again will this country ever be on defense waiting for (terrorists) to attack us if I have anything to say about it. And make no mistake, the Democrats want to put us back on defense!”
Abortion-schmabortion. Gay marriage-splayfarriage. When we’re talking President Bush’s legacy, it’s all about torture, cronyism, blind hyper-partisanship, and an arrogantly authoritative governing philosophy. Rudy Giuliani’s got that locked up.
on 28 Apr 2007 at 1:21 am # The Daily Squid » ON BOMBING SOME MOTHERFUCKERS
[...] Obama’s response accurately and honestly described what a US president, any US president, be they Republican or Democrat (looking at you, Rudy) would do in the immediate aftermath of that terrible hypothetical; they’d deploy help and assistance to those who were attacked, they’d make sure there weren’t any other impending threats, then they’d go get the dudes who made the attack possible and take them out. [...]