Decided or Not, Giuliani Charts a Path to 2008

Rudy should join the Democratic Party. It's the only way he'd win a primary and he's more liberal than most of our Democratic contenders!


April 7, 2006
Decided or Not, Giuliani Charts a Path to 2008
By PATRICK HEALY

After four years of enjoying private life, former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani is taking several steps that could lay the groundwork for a presidential bid, strengthening alliances with Republicans nationwide and especially with conservative leaders of the party.

Mr. Giuliani's advisers say he will decide around the end of the year whether to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2008.

It is a decision that will not be made easily: Mr. Giuliani believes that his support for abortion rights, gay rights and gun control would make winning the nomination difficult, according to several friends and former City Hall aides. Some of those people, who were granted anonymity to describe conversations with the former mayor, say they have told him not to give up his comfortable new way of life for a campaign that might end in failure.

Yet Mr. Giuliani remains popular across the Republican spectrum because of his leadership during 9/11 — a role that many Americans were reminded of yesterday when he testified at the death penalty trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person to be tried in an American courtroom in connection with the attacks of Sept. 11.

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I wouldn't trust him on civil liberties, not only on the Second Amendment (on which he's terrible), but on the First and Fourth. Remember the "Free Speech Zones" in NYC?