31% In GOP Say Giuliani Doesn't Share Their Values

New York Times:

Nearly half of Republican primary voters in the poll did not know Mr. Giuliani's position on abortion -- he supports abortion rights -- suggesting that he could be vulnerable among conservatives because of his positions on social issues. And many voters said that Mr. Giuliani's experience as mayor of New York City, which he consistently trumpets, limited his ability to understand their needs and concerns and was not as good a background for the presidency as having been a governor or a senator.

While the poll found that Mr. Giuliani faced some big challenges in winning his party's nomination, with 31 percent of self-identified Republican primary voters saying he does not share the values of most members of his party, it also suggested that he might be able to win over wary or unconvinced Republicans if he could make the case that he would be the candidate with the best chance of winning the general election.

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Comments

[Warmglobe]

12:32 PM on 09/11/2007

It's the republican moonbats who have to decide untimately...those who vote in the primaries....if they go strictly on ideals and not on who can actually win they will bite the big one.

[johnnyjust]

11:39 AM on 09/11/2007

100% say Hillary or Baracko don't share their values.

A vote against either is preferred.

[poomplet]

11:19 AM on 09/11/2007

Moonbats are scared to death of Rudy because he isn't cow-towing to the jesus-freak hardcore right-wingers. That's the only kind of GOP candidate that can win the general election!!

Romney is similar...he really isn't that conservative, despite his fliping on some issues to pass through the primary gauntlets, where conservative views ARE kind of important (sadly).

I'd vote for either of them in a HEARTBEAT if Hillary gets the nom, as will, well, ast least 50% of the voting public.

Again, this is the scenario that has "progressives" trembling, which is why you see HuffPo overtly trying to tear down Hillary & the moderate repubs via blogs and selective news blurbs with slanted headers (and always with the hilariously-freakish pics of Hillary's lemur-eyes).

I don't fault them for this...it's their raison d'etre...but it's so obvious, it's sort of pathetic.

[Iamthelight]

10:36 AM on 09/11/2007

The headline should read that 69% do share his values. That's a pretty strong showing considering what the polls show for our current administration and Congress.

[Warmglobe]

09:38 AM on 09/11/2007

He doesn't....but like someone said..we aren't choosing between Einstein and Mother Theresa...it is always to me the lesser of two evils....and my criteria is based on my beliefs and interests....summed up by who is going to do the least amount of damage to me. I will gladly vote for Rudy if put up against anyone on the democrat side....The republicans aren't likely to win in 2008 because the train has already left for Hillary....they have to come up with someone with as much star power as she does, simple as that. Bush has made it easy for Hillary, and that is one of the many things I will never forgive him for.

[NotaBeliever]

08:31 AM on 09/11/2007

What the heck. So 31% of Repubs think Giuliani doesn't share their "values", whatever those are. Who knows what "values" a Repub actually has? Apparently 69% think he does share their values, or they don't know. Thing is, Giuliani won't need to be Swift-Boated if he gets the Repub nod ... the true will be all over the place and the truth will sink him. People still see him as a hero of 9/11 ... that won't last, once the real campaign starts and the Repubs won't hit him on that in the primaries ... because he's their Great White Old Man Hope. One of them. Pity. That's what they've got.

In '96 they ran Dole because he was the best they had. And in 2000, they ran GWBush because he was the best they had. '04 ... GWBush again because ohmygod they were insane ... and now they got a bunch of old white men who have to promise to keep fighting GWBush's war in the midst of a general American revolt against it.

Yikes. It's reallly not lookin' good for 'em.

[Austintatious]

06:16 AM on 09/11/2007

One seriously entertaining the notion that the good folks on the right - including the religious right - will be terribly offended by Rudy's liberal baggage, when it comes to matters of the voting booth, is in for a big surprise. They are more willing and likely than most to overlook their high "moral standards" when doing so suits their political agenda. Just look at their leaders, those who will be instructing them on who to vote for and why. They have already exhibited a blatantly hypocritical willingness to entertain just such a compromise.

The Republican Party, especially its neo-con faction, has their number and will continue to control them quite effectively. All the suggestions that Rudy's positions on their big issues will cause them to stay home on election day are hogwash. They'll turn out in droves. Need proof? Ask yourself why they continue to support, as a solid 30 to 35 percent block of American voters, the policies of the current Administration and the Republican Party, in spite of the incomprehensible damage those polices have visited upon our nation and the world.

Here's the reason. The most important thing in their minds, by far, is to make sure that those dreaded liberals don't achieve any sort of a meaningful comeback, ending the right wing nervana they've enjoyed for the last several years. Their hatred of anything or anyone that they perceive as "liberal" is their real motivator, and they will be quite willing to compromise their so called principles when doing so is necessary to get their man (or, however unlikely, their woman) elected.

If the leaders of the Democratic Party intend to win in '08, they darned well better come to grips with all this, and come up with a candidate that can unify the rest of the nation in the face of such a large and negative political force. Frankly, I am not so sure that the Dems can get it done and, in view of their performance in Congress of late, I'm not sure that they should.

[TJTelecaster]

02:54 AM on 09/11/2007

Yes, he does share your values, he's fucking hypocrite greedy cross dressing, drag queen piece of shit isn't he..?

Just like your whole fucking stupid dumb-ass Republican party..!

[rwe]

10:35 AM on 09/11/2007

who has kept the USA safe fir the last 6 years inspite of everything yu and the rest of the scum have tried to do to cause more hate and death. You are welcome. 31% say they don't share values with Rudy. So what ....82% disapprove of the dem congress. And today again Pelosi and Emanuel have put off pressing charges and questioning those hated Republicans.....AGAIN IT IS BECAUSE THERRE IS NOTHING TO CHARGE THEM WITH. carry on with the ignorant obxcenity laced vitriol

[Doug]

10:56 AM on 09/11/2007

The brainwashing of this one is complete.

[MI6troll]

01:15 AM on 09/11/2007

Wonder why?

http://blog.radioleft.com/geoffimages/rudyforpresident.jpg

[Doug]

12:46 AM on 09/11/2007

I'm so fucking sick of "values" being in politics.

[marcain]

12:37 AM on 09/11/2007

I'm just glad he got rid of that horrific comb-over a few years back. That was an important issue.

[StillAmused]

12:09 AM on 09/11/2007

"Without really thinking, based on just emotion, spontaneous, I grabbed the arm of then-Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, and I said to him, "Bernie, thank God George Bush is our president."

"Thank God that George Bush is our president, and thank God that Dick Cheney, a man with his experience and his knowledge and his strength and his background, is our vice president."

— Rudy, Republican National Convention, 8/30/04

End of story.

[frost]

12:08 AM on 09/11/2007

.
but these same republicans will still vote for this hypocrite..

because when it comes to principles..

republicans have none.. .

[rwe]

09:41 AM on 09/11/2007

Oh ok, Lets see Barnyard frank and his apartment brothel. Ted Kennedy leaving a girl die in his car and not reporting until the next day. Hillary,,Not enough pages..Bill Clinton ...See Hillary . Abortion views by Rudy only prove that the tragic results are not the driving force that the msm would think it is. Hypocricy....I see where Rahm Emanuel , Pelosi ,Reid etc don't think they need to go after those despicable Republicans yet. And if you look at the comment below , remember today that there have been no terrorist activities here in the US to speak of in 6 years.

[Quaoar]

11:56 PM on 09/10/2007

Let's see.. He doesn't go cruising in Men's rooms, visit hookers, take drugs, or do anything that conservative Republicans do while pretending to be morally upstanding. Maybe he doesn't share GOP values. Or maybe he just hasn't been caught yet.

[ADVOCATE4ZPG]

01:14 AM on 09/11/2007

He's better spoken, more articulate, and wittier than GEORGE BUSH! Doesn't that count for anything? He's not as physically grotesque as Dick Cheney! Even lacking a PhD in whatever, he likely knows more about policy--especially foreign/military policy that either Wolfowitz or Condollessa(sp?) Rice..... Finally, having been a Federal attorney, he certainly more versed in law than Alberto Gonzales.... Upward trend?

[Gary47]

11:50 PM on 09/10/2007

Scary to me that it is not way higher.