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Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich chats with members of the Loeb family during dinner before speaking at the 4th Annual First Amendment Awards Honors event hosted by the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications Monday, Nov. 27, 2006, in Manchester, N.H.

NY Sun: Gingrich: Free Speech Should Be Curtailed To Fight Terrorism

A former House speaker, Newt Gingrich, is causing a stir by proposing that free speech may have to be curtailed in order to fight terrorism.

“We need to get ahead of the curve rather than wait until we actually literally lose a city, which I think could literally happen in the next decade if we’re unfortunate,” Mr. Gingrich said Monday night during a speech in New Hampshire. “We now should be impaneling people to look seriously at a level of supervision that we would never dream of if it weren’t for the scale of the threat.”

Speaking at an award dinner billed as a tribute to crusaders for the First Amendment, Mr. Gingrich, who is considering a run for the White House in 2008, painted an ominous picture of the dangers facing America.

“This is a serious, long-term war,” the former speaker said, according an audio excerpt of his remarks made available yesterday by his office. “Either before we lose a city or, if we are truly stupid, after we lose a city, we will adopt rules of engagement that use every technology we can find to break up their capacity to use the Internet, to break up their capacity to use free speech, and to go after people who want to kill us to stop them from recruiting people.”

Right.

Just as people are understanding the Islamofascist threat, tell them that their precious Bill of Rights will be changed/eliminated to fight Muslims.

Are you kidding Flap.

It is within the framework of “FREE SPEECH” that the fight against terrorism is waged.

Captain Ed has his analysis here.

The remedy for bad speech is more speech. The solution to radical mosques is to enforce immigration laws and to tighten visa requirements to keep radicals from entering the US. If people want to advocate for terrorist attacks and the violent overthrow of our elected government, then they have already broken the law, and it requires no sacrifice from Americans to prosecute such people. Free speech and religious freedom did not cause terrorism; in fact, the lack of both causes it. If Gingrich wants to offer the hair of the dog as a solution, then he will find himself very lonely on the campaign trail for the next two years.

Put a FORK in Newt’s Presidential ambitions – Gingrich is DONE.

Newt Gingrich speaks at the 4th Annual First Amendment Awards Honors event Monday, Nov. 27, 2006, in Manchester, N.H.

Giuliani takes step toward White House bid

Giuliani moves nearer to White House run

The Polls:

In a nationwide Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,050 Republicans and 203 GOP-leaning independents, 24 percent backed Giuliani while 18 percent chose Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. McCain, at 17 percent, lags behind Rice, a declared non-candidate.

“If we assume Rice is not running and allocate her votes,” says pollster Scott Rasmussen, “Giuliani would top McCain 32 percent to 22 percent in the Nov. 4-7 study.”Among likely Republican voters polled in Michigan, McCain beat Giuliani 33 percent to 25. Rudy romped elsewhere in Strategic Vision’s Nov. 6 survey. Giuliani outran McCain by nine points in Georgia (33 percent to 24); 19 in Florida (46 percent to 27) and Washington state (42 percent to 23); 22 in New Jersey (47 percent to 25); and 23 points in Pennsylvania (47 percent to 24). Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., scored, at best, a distant third in these states.

A Clemson University poll of South Carolina Republicans and GOP-leaners revealed Giuliani’s enormous 68 percent net-favorable rating (78 percent favorable minus 10 percent unfavorable). McCain’s equivalent figure was 42 percent (65 favorable, less 23 percent unfavorable). These figures don’t surprise Rasmussen.

“Giuliani has the highest net-favorable ratings of any candidate on whom we’ve been polling,” he says. “Giuliani’s higher than McCain and higher than Hillary Clinton. He’s even higher than Bill Clinton.”

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, right, lifts Tim Pawlenty’s arm during a campaign rally at the Minnesota Professional Fire Fighters headquarters for the Republican governor Monday, Nov. 6, 2006 in St. Louis Park, Minn. Pawlenty is seeking re-election in a race against Democrat Mike Hatch, Minnesota’s attorney general.

AP: Giuliani takes step toward ’08 bid

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, a moderate Republican best known for his stewardship of the city after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has taken the first step in a 2008 presidential bid, GOP officials said Monday.

The former mayor filed papers to create the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Exploratory Committee, Inc., establishing a panel that would allow him to raise money for a White House run and travel the country.

The four-page filing, obtained by The Associated Press, lists the purpose of the non-profit corporation “to conduct federal ‘testing the waters’ activity under the Federal Election Campaign Act for Rudy Giuliani.”

John McCain started the 2008 presidential campaign season last week. Rudy Giuliani is right in the hunt for the presidency.

Giuliani is the front-runner and leads in the polls.

Let the campaign begin.

Next, Mitt Romney will announce.

Stay tuned………

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (C) speaks at a news conference as he is joined by California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (L) and Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca (R) in Santa Monica, California, August 17, 2006, urging California voters to support Proposition 83, Jessica’s Law on the November 2006 ballot. Proposition 83 calls for electronically monitoring sex offenders for life via a GPS system as well as allowing prosecutors to charge criminals who posses child pornography with a felony. Prop. 83 was passed overwhelmingly by voters last week.

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U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, left, introduces U.S. Sen Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and his wife Caryll Kyl Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2006 in Scottsdale, Ariz. Kyl defeated Democratic challenger Jim Pederson.

ABC: McCain Begins Preliminary White House Run

Exploratory Committee to Be Set Up This Month, No Final Decision Has Been Made

Flap to Senator McCain – DON’T BOTHER.

New York Post: HILL’S SO SORRY OVER ‘VIET’ SLAP

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called John McCain yesterday to personally apologize and denounce comments an adviser of hers reportedly made slamming the GOP senator over his time in captivity in Vietnam.

The move from one potential 2008 presidential candidate to another was sparked by a column in The New York Times, in which Maureen Dowd quoted an anonymous adviser talking about McCain’s criticism of the Clintons over their North Korea position.

The adviser said Team Clinton thought McCain was doing the White House’s dirty work by criticizing the Clintons and ended up “looking similar to the way he did on those captive tapes from Hanoi, where he recited the names of his crewmates.”

That was a reference to an unsubstantiated rumor used to tar McCain, a Vietnam war hero, as off-kilter during the 2000 GOP presidential primary.

Right……..

The Clinton brand of politics.

Pathetic

But, get used to it. The November 2008 presidential campaign will be painfully LONG.

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President 2008 Watch: Hillary – McCain Was Doing the Bidding of the White House

Hillary’s brand of the POLITICS OF PERSONAL DESTRUCTION has already started.

Privately, Hillary’s camp was not overly upset by the McCain swipe because it suspected he was doing the bidding of the White House and that he ended up, as one adviser put it, “looking similar to the way he did on those captive tapes from Hanoi, where he recited the names of his crew mates.”

The whisper/stealth campaign against John McCain………

Senator John F. Kerry spoke during the opening of Iowa State University’s Political Action Week last Monday in Ames, Iowa.

Boston Globe: Kerry’s barnstorming sparks talk of a run

Flap thought it was Al Gore’s turn for a RETREAD campaign?

Please make the GOP’s day and run……..

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