STUDENT RUDY'S LEFTY DAYS

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02252007/news/nationalnews/student_rudys_lefty_days_nationalnews_maggie_haberman.htm

STUDENT RUDY'S LEFTY DAYS
By MAGGIE HABERMAN


February 25, 2007 -- There was a time when Rudy Giuliani, now a GOP White House front-runner, hardly sounded like a Republican stalwart - strongly defending Robert Kennedy and blasting Barry Goldwater as "incompetent."

Those fiercely worded opinions were in political columns a 20-year-old Giuliani wrote as a Manhattan College student, while he was still boosting Democratic candidates, a Post review of the pieces found.

In a blistering criticism of then-New York Sen. Kenneth Keating, Giuliani blasted the Republican for repeatedly calling Bobby Kennedy a "carpetbagger" - the same term the GOP used against Hillary Rodham Clinton in her 2000 New York campaign.

"The 'carpetbagger' issue . . . is a truly ridiculous reason for not voting for a man in the year 1964," Giuliani wrote in a October 1964 column for the Manhattan Quadrangle student newspaper.

He dubbed GOP heavyweight Goldwater an "incompetent" flip-flopper who pandered to "extremists."

The young Giuliani also said the senator's presidential candidacy took the GOP to the "lowest ebb in its long history."

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vote for the Republican, no matter who they are:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x289149

Do not push Rudy off to the side. He is formidable.

before I decided not to post it. But heh, that thread inspired me. :evilgrin:

I think Rudy has far too many 'liberal' issues to be much of a candidate, but I could be wrong. I just don't see it.

Then again, FDR was a Republican in his college years (mostly because of Teddy being in office at the time) and Reagan was a Democrat when he was in his 20's.