Here's the reality of the race for the GOP's '08 presidential nomination. Mitt Romney won the Iowa straw poll but still draws just 13 percent in national polls. McCain is on the ropes. Fred Thompson is still undeclared, and falling. And Rudy Giuliani is way out front and the candidate to beat for the Republican nomination, according to a brand new CBS poll.
Three times married, anti-gun, pro-gay, pro-choice, the former New York mayor is defying conventional expectations and his take-charge style is even winning over some southern conservatives and evangelicals who oppose him on abortion, gun control, gay rights, and more. That is critical, and remarkable.
Listen to an On Point conversation about Giuliani’s southern charm, and whether it might take him to the winner’s circle.
What do you make of the former mayor of liberal New York winning hearts and minds in the conservative South? Can a pro-choice, gun control candidate win the Republican nomination?
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Comments: 7
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I dont know who CBS thinks they are polling in the South Conservative Evangilical but I will promise you that anyone in the South who considers themselves to be any one of the following, evangelical, conservative, republican is not going to support someone who is in support of choice, tolerant of homosexuals, or supports gun control.
Me thinkest that some people polled are really liberals posing in order to throw off the scent if you know what I mean.
1) What specifically heroic act did Mayor Giuliani perform in the aftermath of 911? He just grandstanded this tragedy.
2) Why did Giuliani have his Command and Control in the World Trade Center Towers after the 1993 Al Qaeda attack there; since their history is to keep trying? This resulted in more confusion and deaths.
Carol, at this too early stage in the primary process, I would pay less attention to the polls and actively support the leader who agrees most with your views and who has shown his mettle as a leader. Perhaps Giuliani is appealing because he is one of the few candidates from an executive branch of government.
Hillary can't win.
Thompson would do better in the South when/if he declares.
All in all, I don't see a republican winning this time.
And one more thing, he has the family values of an alley cat. Contrast that the constitutional conservative RON PAUL who has been married to the same women for 50 years, wants us out of illegal wars and wants our money to be sound again.