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This is Part 7 of a look at possible GOP candidates that might run well against Obama in 2012.
Part 1 looked at Mitch Daniels Part 2 looked at Tim Pawlenty
Part 3 looked at Chris Christie Part 4 looked at Mitt Ronney
Part 5 looked at Sarah Palin Part 6 looked at Mike Huckabee
Part 7 looked at Rudy Giuliani Part 8 looked at Michele Bachman
Part 9 looked at Donald Trump Part 10 looked at Paul Ryan
Part 11 looked at Ron Paul Part 12 looked at Newt Gingrich
Part 13 looked at Herman Cain Part 14 looked at Rick Santorum
Part 15 looked at Rick Perry Part 16 looked at Jon Huntsman
In his first public appearance in New Hampshire since the 2008 campaign, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani came down hard on President Obama, calling the president a "failure" and offering his opinion that "Hillary Clinton would have been better".
"He really seems like he doesn’t know what he’s doing", Giuliani said of President Obama and described the president as a stuttering foreign policy weakling who was "dithering over the situation in Libya", and declared that, "Obama has displayed the worst presidential decision making on foreign policy", that he has ever seen.
Giuliani also took time to laud the Tea Party, calling it "one of the best things that’s happened to American democracy in a very, very long time", and said that he considered himself a member of the tea party movement.
Giuliani did however acknowledge one regret, which was not having spent more time in New Hampshire during the 2008 primary race.
If Giuliani does enter the 2012 field, he’d need to go full force in the first primary state, and the executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, Neil Levesque, says Giuliani could do well, if he really makes an effort.
“New Hampshire Republicans and independents can vote in the Republican primary, so I think this is the kind of state that would be favorable to him if he were to decide to run. Anything can happen in New Hampshire because this is a state where people actually look at someone who is working hard for the vote, and they’ll make considerations".
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Rudy Giuliani is the only viable nominee at this point.
The country is quickly rejecting the far right extremism of the tea party.
Yeah I’d love to see him run, but just for the entertainment because he would’t get very far.
It would be hard to choose between Trump and Giuliani …
Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson raised eyebrows a couple of weeks ago when he heaped praise on former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, saying he’d make “a good president” despite his liberal positions on g** rights and abortion.
Asked if Giuliani would be an acceptable 2008 presidential candidate to Christian conservatives, Robertson told ABC’s “This Week”.
“He did a super job running the city of New York and I think he’d make a good president”.
“I like him a lot – although he doesn’t share my particular point of view on social issues”, Robertson explained, before calling the twice-divorced Giuliani “a very dedicated Catholic”.
Roberston also noted that “Rudy’s a very good friend of mine,” adding, “He’s a great guy”.
Despite Robertson’s praise however, Giuliani wasn’t his first choice for the GOP nod.
He mentioned the ex-mayor only after touting Sen. Sam Brownback as “a super guy”, and Sen. George Allen as a former “distinguished governor and distinguished senator”.
“Giuliani is very close to saying he’s going to run”.
Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., quoted by The Washington Examiner, speaking at a dinner with reporters.
The loftiest trial balloon yet from Rudy Giuliani’s camp was hoisted up on Monday night by Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., who told reporters that the former New York mayor and 2008 candidate was leaning toward mounting a run.
A 2008 Giuliani aide told Power Play that key members of the old team are “staying loose” in anticipation of a potential run. He said the exploration seemed to have entered “a different phase” and that Giuliani had grown increasingly serious as the Republican field took shape.
“You can’t look at the Republican field and say that there isn’t room”, the former aide said.
King, a longtime ally of Giuliani and a former surrogate on terrorism and security issues, floated the Rudy run at a Washington media dinner hosted by conservative magazine the American Spectator. It’s the latest and greatest sign from a slow-developing effort from Giuliani’s inner circle.
In a speech to a Republican lawyers’ group earlier this month, Giuliani made it clear he was considering the possibility but wanted to see who else got into the race. He had previously taken a “not closing the door” line, but the rhetoric has lately taken a turn toward interest rather than non-resistance.
Giuliani will headline a GOP fund-raiser in New Hampshire early next month.
And according to the press release announcing the event, Mr. Giuliani reached out to the party to host the fund-raiser.
Jack Kimball, chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, said in a statement.
“I am pleased to welcome Mayor Giuliani back to New Hampshire, and I am thrilled that he has reached out to help us raise funds for the NHGOP. He is a proven lead who guided us through one of our nation’s darkest hours on Sept. 11th”.
And Rep. Peter King, who is a fellow New York Republican, said on Thursday that Mr. Giuliani is seriously considering another White House bid.
“As of this moment he is very much inclined to run. He is looking at it very carefully. This time he would focus on New Hampshire, that’s where his main emphasis would be”.
Asked if he would also run, Mr. King reiterated that he’s thinking about it.
“Obviously if Rudy jumps in, I would support Rudy, but if not, I will see what happens. Stranger things would happen”.
Although Giuliani, hasn’t been actively campaigning, he still polls well ahead of other candidates who have.
He tied with former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty in the latest WMUR poll of likely Republican voters.
And a CNN/Opinion Research poll released Friday showed Mr. Giuliani leading the rest of the Republican field.
The poll showed his support at 16% among Republicans and independents who lean toward the party, and that’s ahead of former Massachusetts Gov.
Mitt Romney at 15% and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at 13%.
Of the three, only Mr. Romney is actively campaigning.
Reliable sources are now saying that Rudy Giuliani intends to run for the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
The failed game-plan:
In the fall of 2007, Giuliani decided he couldn’t compete with both Mitt Romney and John McCain in New Hampshire, and disastrously decided to try to pull back there and pitch his tent in Florida.
The new game-plan:
This year, he’ll supposedly commit everything to New Hampshire, where he thinks he has a good shot at beating Romney—whom he criticized there earlier this week. He then thinks he can beat whichever more socially conservative candidate(s) is left by winning what are still likely to be winner-take-all primaries in big states like California, New York, and New Jersey.
Rudy’s message:
I’m tough enough to put our fiscal house in order and to protect us from enemies abroad. The U.S. in 2012 is in bad shape like New York in 1993.
The budget crisis is as severe and seemingly intractable as the crime/welfare crisis was in New York then. Rudy dealt with that when people said it couldn’t be done. He’ll deal with this too.