George Marlin, former chairman of New York’s Port Authority, once ran against Rudy Giuliani for mayor in 1993 as the candidate of the small but influential New York Conservative Party.
His contention then, as now, is that Mr. Giuliani is a man of great gifts, but one should never forget that he is a hopeless liberal on too many issues to ever secure the trust of national conservatives.
Now Mr. Marlin, author of a seminal work on the influence of Catholics in American politics, is back with a new anti-Rudy effort. His Web site RudysReallyLiberal chock full of eye-popping Giuliani quotes over the years, including many quotes that voters in New Hampshire and Iowa can expect to hear frequently repeated in coming months.
Some documented quotes of Giuliani:
On Bill Clinton, when he was running for re-election in 1996:”Most of Clinton’s policies are very similar to most of mine.”
On conservative icon Barry Goldwater, as quoted in the New York Daily News of 1997: “[He was] an incompetent, confused and sometimes idiotic man.”
Giuliana’s Liberalism won’t endear him to me, neither will negative and insulting comments about Barry Goldwater.
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March 19th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Amazing how ignorant Conservatives can be sometimes. Rudy is not a “Liberal” rather he is a Libertarian. That’s spelled L-I-B-E-R-T-A-R-I-A-N.
Libertarians are fiscally conservative, yet socially tolerant. In other words we’re Goldwaterites.
Rudy Giuliani is the modern day equivelant of Libertarian Godfather Barry Goldwater.
Libertarians for Giuliani at http://www.mainstreamlibertarian.com
March 19th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Goldwater? Go do your homework.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007793
March 20th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
I have Goldwater’s book sitting right on my shelf. I interviewed Goldwater a year before he died for Republican Liberty.
Goldwater was down-the-line just like Giuliani: Pro-Free Enterprise, Limited Government, Tax Cuts, Pro-Choice, Pro-Medical Marijuana, Tolerant on Gays, and Strong on Defense.
Only difference is Goldwater was fighting Communism. Giuliani is fighting Islamo-Fascism.
Eric Dondero, Chairman
Libertarian Defense Caucus