Bronxite here!! Wonderful man but tends to be liberal on social issues. Might not be so great in the Senate bc of that. (baby in arms; typing with one finger)

Though I must say he is not really a man with good vision. As an administrator he is great. But nothing better than picking up this Senate seat.

I still think Giuliani would have made it a much closer race than McCain did in 2008. He’s not a perfect conservative, but the issues he’s strong on he’s a gladiator that’s not afraid to back down.

Giuliani has supposedly said he’s not running for Governor, and he’d probably lose against Cuomo anyway.

He really should run for the Senate though, he’d destroy Gillibrand.

is solid on fiscal, law and order and defense issues. I don’t know his record on gun control, but he is definitely a social libertarian. Can conservatives get much more in New York (state wide)?

He is a great administrator, and could campaign on that record. Furthermore, in light of the KSM nightmare, he would remind everyone what a great leader (executive) he was on 911. Couldn’t he beat Cuomo with that?

Where would he be more valuable – the Senate or the Governors Mansion?

Former Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari, a close Giuliani pal, said the former mayor has shared doubts with him for weeks about running for governor.

“What he said to me is that he doesn’t think he’s going to do it,” Molinari said about a conversation earlier this month with the former mayor. “It just didn’t make any sense to him.”

Molinari said the ongoing circus in the state Senate, combined with Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s iron grip on Assembly matters, had convinced Giuliani that a Republican governor would have little ability to get things done quickly in Albany.

“The big drawback for him was – could I really be effective?” Molinari said. “He saw too many hangups there. He’s not running for the title, that’s for sure.”

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/11/19/2009-11-19_former_mayor_rudy_giuliani_to_announce_plan_to_run_for_us_senate.html#ixzz0XR5qg8R2

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/11/19/2009-11-19_former_mayor_rudy_giuliani_to_announce_plan_to_run_for_us_senate.html

He’d fulfill the rest of Hillary’s original term–and be set up to run again in 2012. I hope he goes for it.

I don’t buy that Rudy can’t get through the GOP gauntlet because of his social views.

Two points need to be remembered: he had always been reasonably sympathetic to GOP positions on social issues and was never a fervent opponent; and the country is in much more peril this time around–peril that requires exactly his kind of capabilities.

Rudy is an executive genius. He gets the impossible done–despite media opposition, despite political opposition, despite racial politics. All this was thrown at him while he was mayor–but he got the job done just the same. Before that as US Attorney he broke the back of the Democratic political machine in NY, sent corrupt Wall Street billionaires to jail, and sent the heads of the NY mafia to prison for long terms. Before that he was Asst. Attorney General under Reagan. He has intimate knowledge of how the federal system functions. There never was a candidate in our time more qualified for the top slot. Instead we gave the nod to McC. And then there was his cool-headedness on 9/11…

I could never understand why we should have insisted that a blue state big city candidate like Rudy was supposed to appeal to farmers in Iowa or evangelicals in SC when our opposition would be primarily in blue states and in the big cities.

Rudy polled remarkably well nationally against both Obama and Hillary, leading by around 5 or 6 points. He also polled well among the GOP rank and file across the board. He just could never get traction in those small states. Yet he was leading in polls against Hillary and Obama in places like CT and NJ and PA and FL–where there are huge Italian-American populations–the Reagan big city ethnic Democrats, a bloc as big as the black vote and the soil out of which Judges Scalia and Alito have sprung. It was crazy to have ignored this potential in order to appease voters who inhabited the South and wheat belt mostly–regions already in our pocket. What kind of political sense did that make?

Rudy is a great politician who showed exactly how to govern a Democratic big city from the right. He may be a moderate, but he’s about as conservative as can get elected in NY. I’d love to see him take down the empty suit that is Gillibrand. And then he’ll be in a perfect position for 2012. I can see the campaign posters now.

Giuliani 2012 – it won’t be the first time he’s cleaned up someone else’s mess.

he’ll destroy her. He has more principles, Gillibrand votes how Obummer tells her to vote

I know it is foolish. But the KSM terror trial needs to be a major issue in the Senate race in a serious way. I haven’t heard anything from Schumer on the matter, but I want to drive him into defend NY or defend the Obama Administration. If Guiliani wins, I want it to be attributed to a strong issue like that rather than because he was better than a lightweight candidate. These two heavyweights should slug it out in the biggest fight in the history of ever. Has anyone polled that match up?

Also, I’m hoping that maybe there are some Dems that would like to see Schumer fall. Would Cuomo prefer that for any reason? Anyone out there who wants to be king of the NY Dems?

I voted for Giuliani in the primary although he was not the perfect conservative on social issues. He could take down Gillibrand in a New York minute. With Rudy it´s a sure pickup of a senate seat. If Lazio will go against Schumer and the economy still in the tank , an upset is entirely possible depending on the condition of the economy in Octiber 2010.That would be a twofer!

I still think Giuliani would have made it a much closer race than McCain did in 2008. He’s not a perfect conservative, but the issues he’s strong on he’s a gladiator that’s not afraid to back down.

How? BHO didn’t run against McCain, he ran against George Bush. Rudy was brought down to PA to “help” Rick Santorum against “where’s Bobby” Casey and Santorum was hammered. Rudy would’ve been painted as “pro-choice” Bush, animating the left and generating even more Conservative antipathy than McCain.

Moreover, given a shot to influence the national stage, he recommended Bernard K. Not sound judgement.

I agree though that he’s not a “perfect conservative”, he’s not a conservative at all.