• President 2008,  Rudy Giuliani

    Rudy Giuliani Campaigns for John McCain in Pennsylvania

    Rudy Giuliani talks to reporters about the differences between John McCain and Democrat opponents, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama

    Rudy’s BACK – campaigning for John McCain, the GOP nominee. Hizzoner was in Pennsylvania today headlining a $1,000 a plate fundraisier.

    With McCain called back to Washington to vote in the Senate, Rudy Giuliani pitched in and headlined a $1,000-a-plate luncheon for the Arizona senator, and said he believed the Republicans can win Pennsylvania.

    “I would consider this for John a very doable state, a state he could win” Giuliani told reporters after the luncheon. “Someone like John McCain that has outreach to independent and to Democratic voters, this is a perfect state for him.” (Indeed, a recent Pennsylvania poll shows McCain leading both Clinton and Obama in the Keystone State.)

    Good to see the Mayor on the campaign trail again.

    So, what is in Giuliani’s future?

    1. Vice President
    2. Attorney General of the United States
    3. Governor of New York in 2010
    4. Private attorney and busninessman

    Number 4 for now but either of the previous three could be in the cards.

    Although he didn’t rule it out, Giuliani said he wasn’t thinking about running for governor himself in 2010. “I’m not considering running for anything right now,” he said. “I’m just back in my law firm, back in business, getting used to my private life, and it’s quote enjoyable. So I’m not thinking about running for anything right now.”

    Flap plans to see Rudy on the stump for the GOP alot this spring, summer and fall. Will he have a speech at the GOP convention?

    How about a speech nominating Senator McCain?


  • Barack Obama,  Democrats,  Hillary Clinton,  President 2008

    Do-Over Democrat Primary Elections in Michigan and Florida? Part Three

    Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democrat National Committee discussing Do-Over Elections in Florida and the Geraldine Ferraro Flap

    A mail-in Do-Over Florida Democrat Primary election has been proposed by the Karen Thurman, chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party.

    Under the plan, all of Florida’s 4.1 million Democrats would be mailed a ballot. They could send it back, or cast a ballot in one of 50 regional voting centers that would be set up. The election would end June 3, a week before a Democratic National Committee deadline to name delegates.

    The estimated cost is $10 million to $12 million.

    Asked if the plan will be implemented, Thurman said, “I have a feeling that this is probably closer to not, than yes.”

    But, let’s see who is or could be opposed to this plan:

    • The Obama Campaign
    • Charlie Crist, Florida Governor
    • Florida GOP controlled Legislature
    • All nine Democrat House members
    • United States Department of Justice

    Flap doubts the DNC and/or Howard Dean would approve an expenditure of $ 10 plus million to help Hillary Clinton MAYBE get a few more elected delegates closer to Obama. As Flap said before, Obama WILL NOT DARE OPPOSE a Florida re-vote but you know he will throw up some roadblocks to assure him an electoral advantage.

    In the meantime in Michigan:

    The Clinton campaign made it clear that it strongly prefers a state-run primary to mail-in voting during a meeting with Michigan Democrats Thursday, according to a campaign official speaking anonymously about the private talks. People involved in the private meeting said the Clinton advisers favor the state-run primary because there would be less likelihood of problems such as fraud and ballot counting than with a mail-in vote.

    Four Michigan Democratic leaders uncommitted to either candidate discussed options for a do-over Thursday with both the Clinton and Obama campaign leaders. Democratic National Committee member Debbie Dingell, Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, Sen. Carl Levin and United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger are in that group trying to develop a new plan with input from both sides.

    In Michigan voters do NOT register by party and Republican voters can participate in the Democrat re-vote. How would you tell the difference between Democrat, Independent and GOP voters?

    Do you think the GOP would GAME the election?

    Do-Over elections in Florida and Michigan will NOT deliver anything but grief for the Democrats whether they are held or not. Michigan and Florida voters have been disenfranchised and the Democrats have nobody to blame except themselves, the DNC and Howard Dean.

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  • Barack Obama,  Hillary Clinton,  President 2008

    Hillary Clinton Watch: Olbermann – “You Must Reject and Denounce Geraldine Ferraro”

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBXD2zizIY[/youtube]

    After days of tacitly condoning Geraldine Ferraro’s controversial comments, Hillary Clinton becomes the focus of MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment

    Wishful thinking by LEFTY Keith Olbermann because it AIN”T going to happen or will it?

    Key Graphs:

    • Senator, as it has reached its apex in their tone-deaf, arrogant, and insensitive reaction to the remarks of Geraldine Ferraro… your own advisors are slowly killing your chances to become President.
    • Senator, their words, and your own, are now slowly killing the chances for any Democrat to become President.
    • You may think the matter has closed with Representative Ferraro’s bitter, almost threatening resignation [letter]. But in fact, Senator, you are now campaigning, as if Barock Obama were the Democrat, and you… were the Republican.
    • And thus these advisers give Congresswoman Ferraro nearly a week in which to send Senator Clinton’s campaign back into the vocabulary… of David Duke.
    • Well. It sounds as if those advisors want their campaign to be associated with those words, and the cheap… ignorant… vile… racism that underlies every syllable… And that Geraldine Ferraro has just gone free-lance.
    • Unless you say something definitive, Senator, the former Congresswoman is speaking with your approval.
    • To not distance you… from that which you as a woman, and Senator Obama as an African-American, should both know and feel with the deepest of personal pain!
    • Which you should both fight with all you have!
    • Which you should both insure, has no place in this contest!
    • This, Senator Clinton, is your campaign, and it is your name.
    • Grab the reins back from whoever has led you to this precipice, before it is too late.
    • Voluntarily or inadvertently, you are still awash in this filth.
    • Your only reaction has been to disagree, reject, and to call it regrettable.
    • Her only reaction has been to brand herself as the victim, resign from your committee, and insist she will continue to speak.
    • Unless you say something definitive, Senator, the former Congresswoman is speaking with your approval.

    But, Hillary did state something publicly on the issue last night.

    Of Ferraro’s comment, Hillary Clinton told her audience: “I certainly do repudiate it and I regret deeply that it was said. Obviously she doesn’t speak for the campaign, she doesn’t speak for any of my positions, and she has resigned from being a member of my very large finance committee.”

    And, Hillary apologized to black voters for husband Bill’s comments in South Carolina.

    Her biggest apology came in response to a question about comments by her husband, Bill Clinton, after the South Carolina primary, which Obama won handily. Bill Clinton said Jesse Jackson also won South Carolina when he ran for president in 1984 and 1988, a comment many viewed as belittling Obama’s success.

    “I want to put that in context. You know I am sorry if anyone was offended. It was certainly not meant in any way to be offensive,” Hillary Clinton said. “We can be proud of both Jesse Jackson and Senator Obama.”

    “Anyone who has followed my husband’s public life or my public life know very well where we have stood and what we have stood for and who we have stood with,” she said, acknowledging that whoever wins the nomination will have to heal the wounds of a bruising, historic contest.

    “Once one of us has the nomination there will be a great effort to unify the Democratic party and we will do so, because, remember I have a lot of supporters who have voted for me in very large numbers and I would expect them to support Senator Obama if he were the nominee,” she said.

    Right.

    This was the response from Team Hillary Communication Director Howard Wolfson this morning.

    “We obviously vigorously disagree with that observation,” said Wolfson. “Although many of us remain fans of Keith and enjoy watching the show on nights other than last night.”

    Geraldine Ferraro is a Clinton Cabal surrogate and she has done her job well. And, now Obama and Hillary have traded repudiations of surrogates.

    Over to Obama to repudiate his Pastor, Jeremy Wright.

    So, will it be an attack and then an apology a day until the Democrat Convention? Flap sees a trend.


  • Barack Obama,  President 2008

    Barack Obama Watch: The Jeremiah Wright Problem

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEMZHQsQJ6Y&feature=related[/youtube]

    The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor for the last 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s south side.

    The racial gloves are off regarding Barack Obama’s history and associations, including the Pastor at his church, Jeremiah Wright.

    Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor says blacks should not sing “God Bless America” but “God damn America.”

    The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor for the last 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s south side, has a long history of what even Obama’s campaign aides concede is “inflammatory rhetoric,” including the assertion that the United States brought on the 9/11 attacks with its own “terrorism.”

    In a campaign appearance earlier this month, Sen. Obama said, “I don’t think my church is actually particularly controversial.” He said Rev. Wright “is like an old uncle who says things I don’t always agree with,” telling a Jewish group that everyone has someone like that in their family.

    Rev. Wright married Obama and his wife Michelle, baptized their two daughters and is credited by Obama for the title of his book, “The Audacity of Hope.”

    If Obama is to have ANY credibility with “other” Democrats, he will have to repudiate Jeremiah Wright as he has done with Louis Farrakahn.

    If there is NOT a repudiation then Obama cannot be considered a post-racial figure.


  • Barack Obama,  Geraldine Ferraro,  Hillary Clinton,  President 2008

    The Geraldine Ferraro Flap – Is Ferraro Right?

    [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=GUR0MBnl6d4[/youtube]

    Saying Barack Obama was lucky to be black may only have been one more ‘unfortunate’ statement in a string of beauts this election cycle.

    The LEFT is all over Geraldine Ferraro’s comment in the Daily Breeze a few days ago:

    “I think what America feels about a woman becoming president takes a very secondary place to Obama’s campaign – to a kind of campaign that it would be hard for anyone to run against,” she said. “For one thing, you have the press, which has been uniquely hard on her. It’s been a very sexist media. Some just don’t like her. The others have gotten caught up in the Obama campaign.

    “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,” she continued. “And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.” Ferraro does not buy the notion of Obama as the great reconciler.

    The race issue is creating chaos in the Democrat Party and it is being fueled by the desperation of the Clinton Cabal in painting Barack Obama as the “BLACK” candidate.

    Well, he is.

    Obama has won mainly in red states with large African American populations and lost to Clinton in larger Democrat blue states that have a more balanced population demographic mix. And. so what?

    The argument the Clinton campaign is making through surrogate Ferraro is that Obama will NOT be able to win white voters particularly males in the general election. The appeal is to the Super Delegates who will decide the Democrat nomination.

    Obama will be able to silence this argument should he win large white male majorities in the upcoming Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Indiana primaries. Flap doubts he will.

    After all, Ferraro is RIGHT.

    Oh yeah, Flap forgot to mention that Ferraro quit the Clinton campaign yesterday after Hillary threw her under the bus.

    Wink Wink……


  • Day By Day

    Day By Day by Chris Muir March 13, 2008

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    The Elliot Spitzer call-girl sex and money laundering scandal has crowded out other political news the past few days.

    Gerladine Ferraro’s obviously off-color racist remarks and Hillary’s repudiation of such (don’t tell Flap that Ferraro wasn’t orchestrated to say what she did) will be posted soon this morning. The Clinton Cabal is becoming increasingly desperate to beat down Obama and is creating CHAOS in the Democrat Party.

    Hillary is praying the Democrat Parties in Florida and Michigan agree to re-do elections. But, even with massive electoral wins in those states, the delegate math and the proportionality of the elections deliver an elected delegate edge to Obama.

    So, the attacks on Obama will continue. There are 42 days before the Pennsylvania primary and then Indiana on May 6th.
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