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Rudy Giuliani Watch: Latest Angus Reid Poll Has Giuliani Beating McCain by 7 Points
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Angus Reid Global Monitor: Republicans 2008: Giuliani 34%, McCain 27%
Rudy Giuliani remains the most popular presidential hopeful for Republican Party supporters in the United States, according to a poll by TNS released by the Washington Post and ABC News. 34 per cent of respondents would support the former New York City mayor in a 2008 primary.
Arizona senator John McCain is second with 27 per cent, followed by former House of Representatives speaker Newt Gingrich and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney with nine per cent each.
The Poll:
If the 2008 Republican presidential primary or caucus in your state were being held today, and the candidates were: Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Chuck Hagel, Tommy Thompson, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, George Pataki, Sam Brownback, Tom Tancredo, Jim Gilmore, or Ron Paul, for whom would you vote?
(Republicans and Republican leaners)Jan. 2007 Nov. 2006 Rudy Giuliani 34% 34% John McCain 27% 26% Mitt Romney 9% 5% Newt Gingrich 9% 12% George Pataki 2% 3% Tommy Thompson 1% 2% Mike Huckabee 1% * Sam Brownback 1% 1% Tom Tancredo 1% * Jim Gilmore 1% n.a., Ron Paul 1% n.a. Chuck Hagel * * Duncan Hunter * 1% Other * * None of these 2% 6% Would not vote 1% * No opinion 9% 9% Source: TNS / Washington Post / ABC News
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,000 American adults, conducted from Jan. 16 to Jan. 19, 2007. Margin of error is 3 per cent.Mayor Giuliani maintains his lead as Mitt Romney gains at Newt Gingrich’s expense. The Mayor commented about President Bush’s State of the Union address and the Democrat’s response by Senator James Webb.
Flap will have the video in the morning.
Stay tuned…….
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Iran Nuclear Watch: North Korea Helping Iran With Nuclear Testing
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Map locating Hwadaeri in North Korea — the site of the country’s first nuclear weapons test.
Telegraph: N Korea helping Iran with nuclear testing
North Korea is helping Iran to prepare an underground nuclear test similar to the one Pyongyang carried out last year.
Under the terms of a new understanding between the two countries, the North Koreans have agreed to share all the data and information they received from their successful test last October with Teheran’s nuclear scientists.
Flap previously reported the presence of Iran military representatives during North Korea’s July 2006 short and medium range missile tests and aborted test of the Taepodong 2 missile – an ICBM capable of reaching the United States.
North Korea provoked an international outcry when it successfully fired a bomb at a secret underground location and Western intelligence officials are convinced that Iran is working on its own weapons programme.
A senior European defence official told The Daily Telegraph that North Korea had invited a team of Iranian nuclear scientists to study the results of last October’s underground test to assist Teheran’s preparations to conduct its own — possibly by the end of this year.
There were unconfirmed reports at the time of the Korean firing that an Iranian team was present. Iranian military advisers regularly visit North Korea to participate in missile tests.
Flap reported at the time that Iranian nuclear scientists were present at the North Korean nuclear test.
So, now this more revealing expose of the threat of a joint Iran-North Korea program to develop nuclear tipped ICBM missiles.
An audio analysis of this crisis by Con Coughlin is here. Click here to download the podcast.
This is an ALARMING development of the Iran Nuclear Crisis. And how do you think Israel is handling this news?
Intelligence estimates vary about how long it could take Teheran to produce a nuclear warhead. But defence officials monitoring the growing co-operation between North Korea and Iran believe the Iranians could be in a position to test fire a low-grade device — less than half a kiloton — within 12 months.
The precise location of the Iranian test site is unknown, but is likely to be located in a mountainous region where it is difficult for spy satellites to pick up any unusual activity.
Teheran successfully concealed the existence of several key nuclear sites — including the controversial Natanz uranium enrichment complex — until their locations were disclosed by Iranian dissidents three years ago.
Western intelligence agencies have reported an increase in the number of North Korean and Iranian scientists travelling between the two countries.
The increased co-operation on nuclear issues began last November when a team of Iranian nuclear scientists met their North Korean counterparts to study the technical and political implications of Pyongyang’s nuclear test.
The Iranians are reported to have been encouraged by the fact that no punitive action was taken against North Korea, despite the international outcry that greeted the underground firing.
This has persuaded the Iranian regime to press ahead with its own nuclear programme with the aim of testing a low-grade device, which would be difficult for international inspectors to detect.
The “NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN” is imminent. As the United States bolsters its military resources including 21,000 plus more troops and an additional AirCraft Carrier Strike Group it is not too difficult to conclude that these resources may be meant to militarily eliminate Iran’s nuclear program and/or additional Iranian military infrastructure.
Oh, yeah!
Those United Nations sanctions imposed on North Korea and Iran are certainly working well.
NOT
Update:
Just in: Iranian president derides U.S. threats
The United States is incapable of inflicting “serious damage” on Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday, as a second U.S. aircraft carrier group steamed toward the Gulf as a warning from Washington for Iran to back down in its attempts to dominate the region.
“U.S. rhetoric against Iran has not increased,” Ahmadinejad said. “In 2003, they openly threatened to attack Iran. Now they have indirectly made such threats.”
He spoke with confidence over Iran’s ability to withstand a strike. “The United States is unable to inflict serious damage on Iran,” the president said. He also noted, “They (U.S.) are not really in a position to carry out this action (of attacking Iran). I believe there are many wise people in the United States who would not let it happen.”
Stay tuned……..
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Michael Ramirez on the GOP and the Iraq War – Take The Pledge
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Washington Post: Warner Backs Resolution Opposing Troop Increase
House GOP Seeks Monthly Accounting of Results in Iraq
Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.), the former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, yesterday endorsed a new resolution opposing President Bush’s buildup of troops in Baghdad, as even some of the most loyal Republicans scrambled to register their concerns and distance themselves from an unpopular policy.
The resolution, unveiled the day before the president’s State of the Union address, is expected to garner the support of many Senate Republicans — especially those facing reelection next year. The measure appeals to many rank-and-file Republicans because it allows them to voice their differences with the administration without embracing the highly critical language of another bipartisan resolution co-sponsored by Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), one of the sharpest critics of the administration’s Iraq policy.
Senator Warner, grow a damn backbone would you?
Don’t you want the United States to suceed in Iraq? Why are you undercutting the efforts of our troops?
We are at war, sir.
Hugh Hewitt has A Letter To Senator Warner
Republican senators voting for the Warner resolution will never –never– repair the damage they are doing with their Republican base and serious-minded independents, and it is not because of any “disloyalty” to the party or the president. It is because of the injury they are dealing the troops and the war effort.
Flap urges everyone to call or fax Senator Warner: (202) 224-2023 Fax: (202) 224-6295
and GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: (202) 224-2541 Fax: (202) 224-2499
Tell them they are harming the Iraq War effort. Tell them respectfully and tell them often.
Update:
The “compromise” resolution is in fact a “vote of no confidence” in the war, and an encouragement to our enemies, as General Petraeus bluntly declared today.
Call the senators: 202-225-3121. Demand that they support the troops and the war, and tell them to listen to General Petraeus and the president.
If the United States Senate passes a resolution, non-binding or otherwise, that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq that General Petraeus has asked for and that the president has pledged, and if the Senate does so after the testimony of General Petraeus on January 23 that such a resolution will be an encouragement to the enemy, I will not contribute to any Republican senator who voted for the resolution. Further, if any Republican senator who votes for such a resolution is a candidate for re-election in 2008, I will not contribute to the National Republican Senatorial Committee unless the Chairman of that Committee, Senator Ensign, commits in writing that none of the funds of the NRSC will go to support the re-election of any senator supporting the non-binding resolution.
Take the pledge, and tell the NRSC:
NRSC
Ronald Reagan Republican Center
425 2nd Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
202.675.6000
webmaster@gopsenators.comThen e-mail Senator McConnell and Senator Ensign, and tell them too. Senator McConnell’s phone number is  (202) 224-2541. Senator Ensign’s phone number is (202) 224-6244.
GOP activists and donors built the GOP senate delegation, as well as the majority that was punted away. They can disassemble it as well, and GOP support for a neoappeasement resolution is exactly the way to start that process.
The Congressional GOP has to realize it cannot have it both ways –you can’t be for victory after you were against it.
And GOP senators –alone or as a group– definitely cannot count on the support of the base if any of them vote for appeasement.
Flap urges all GOP activists/bloggers /citizens to TAKE THE PLEDGE.
Flap does.Â
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Hillary Blog Ads on Center-Right Blogs
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Hillary Clinton’s Blogads on Center-Right Captain’s Quarter’s and Power Line today
Hotline: Clinton’s Ads On Conservative Websites
Lefty bloggers are raising questions about the strategy behind Hillary Clinton’s blog banner ad by – she’s on conservative websites like Townhall, Power Line and Captain’s Quarters. MyDD’s Matt Stoller wonders: “Why do people like HRC, no matter how often it becomes clear that wingnuts hate us, seek approval from wingnuts?”
Righty Bloggers, like Flap, ask the question as to why TownHall, Captain’s Quarters and Power Line would ACCEPT the ad placement?
Flap just could NOT do it.
And won’t, if offered.
Too hypocritical for me – but to each his own.
Contacted about the buy, Clinton nat’l spokesman Phil Singer tells Hotline: “We’re on some conservative sites because we’re not ceding any territory. We take nothing for granted.”
Right, more like sticking it in the eye of the RIGHT blogosphere. But, the LEFT will probably care more than the RIGHT and read more into the advertising move. The ads are “CHUMP CHANGE” in any campaign.
Now, this brings me to a topic which needs vetting here. Yesterday I missed Hugh Hewitt’s kind words about Flap’s Pro-Rudy Giuliani self-generated blog and the Giulinai Blog for which I also write.
Flap is NOT being paid by the Giuliani campaign and to this date has sold one Blog Ad to the Giuliani Presidential Exploratory Committee. None of my family members are compensated by Team Giuliani, the GOP or any other politician or issue committee. This Blog is self supporting and I alone control which ads will run.
Flap is pleased that Patrick has cleared the air over at Ankle Biting Pundits. Disclosure is important in all things blog-political but carping between ourselves in the center right WINGNUT blogosphere is self-defeating.
Maybe Hillary has a strategy?
You think?
Update:
Dean over at Hugh Hewitt seems to have a different take.
Sorry Dean – don’t think so – ad commissions, traffic?
How about defending Salem Communications accepting the ad in the first place?
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Iran Nuclear Watch: United States Warns Iran – BACK DOWN
AP: U.S. warns Iran to back down
A second U.S. aircraft carrier strike group now steaming toward the Middle East is Washington’s way of warning Iran to back down in its attempts to dominate the region, a top U.S. diplomat said here Tuesday.
Nicholas Burns, U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, ruled out direct negotiations with Iran and said a rapprochement between Washington and Tehran was “not possible” until Iran halts uranium enrichment.
“The Middle East isn’t a region to be dominated by Iran. The Gulf isn’t a body of water to be controlled by Iran. That’s why we’ve seen the United States station two carrier battle groups in the region,” Burns said in an address to the Dubai-based Gulf Research Center, an influential think-tank.
The United States has been fecking around with Iran since 1979 and the Iranian hostage crisis. Yet, Iran continues its attempt to develop a nuclear weapon and become the hegemon of the Middle East.
This will NOT occur and if militrary force is necessary – so be it.
Flap has been talking about the “NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN” for months now. It is apparent that the WINDS OF WAR are blowing in the region unless Iran immediately backs down on their uranium enrichment and submits to United Nations Resolution 1737.
The video above demonstrates what will soon be evident – the projection of American military force against Iran.
“Iran is going to have to understand that the United States will protect its interests if Iran seeks to confront us,” Burns continued.
Iran is in a standoff with the West over its defiance of U.N. demands to halt uranium enrichment, which can produce fuel for both nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. Iran says its atomic program is aimed solely at generating energy, but the United States and some of its allies suspect it is geared toward making weapons. The U.N. imposed limited sanctions on Iran last month.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said last week that Iran is “ready for anything” in its confrontation with the United States.
Iran conducted missile tests on Monday, the first of five days of military maneuvers southeast of Tehran.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said the U.S. buildup in the Gulf was intended to impress on Iran that the four-year war in Iraq has not made America vulnerable.
The American aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis and several accompanying ships are heading toward the Gulf to join an aircraft carrier group already in the region, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Stennis is expected to arrive in late February.
The Stennis’s arrival in the Middle East will mark the first time since the U.S.-led Iraq invasion in 2003 that the United States has had two carrier battle groups in the region.
Iran and Ahmadinejad better be ready. The choice is theirs.
BACK DOWN or face the consequences.
Stay tuned……….
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Rudy Giuliani Watch: Latest Rasmussen Poll Has Giuliani Leading McCain
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Rasmussen Reports: 2008 GOP Presidential Primary: Giuliani 30% McCain 22%
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone poll shows that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) continues to hold an eight-point lead over Senator John McCain (R) in the race for the Republican nomination. Giuliani now earns 30% of the vote, up from 28% a week ago. John McCain (R) has support from 22% while former House Speaker Newt Gingrich remains in third at 12%.
Former Massachusetts Mitt Romney is back in double digits at 10%. Another former Governor Mike Huckabee registers just 2% as does Senator Sam Brownback. Senator Chuck Hagel registers support from 1% of GOP voters
The buzz around the ‘net is that John McCain is FADING and FADING fast. Mitt Romney is starting to make gains and Newt Gingrich is holding in the race without campaigning.
Is the GOP race already seeing shake-out?
Perhaps
With the California and Florida primary elections likely to be moved to Super Tuesday, February 5, 2008, the candidates better be able to establish a credible fundraising operation to buy all of those television spots. However, it doesn’t make donors especially happy to give if your candidate continues to trail Giuliani in poll after poll.
McCain is FADING in head to head match-ups with the Democrats as well.While McCain continues to hold a solid second place in this polling, a separate survey shows he has lost ground in general election match-ups. In fact, for the first time in any Rasmussen Reports polling, McCain has fallen behind a Democratic competitor, trailing both Illinois Senator Barack Obama and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards. McCain may be hampered by the situation in Iraq (considered the most important issue by voters). Most Americans believe we should be reducing the number of U.S. troops fighting in that country while McCain supports the President’s call for more troops.
Giuliani continues to lead all Democrats–see a summary of these match-ups along with favorability ratings and perceptions of the candidates’ ideology. A summary is also provided for Democratic contenders.
Stay tuned…….
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Day By Day by Chris Muir January 23, 2007