Newsweek’s Upcoming Giuliani Cover Story
We offer this Newsweek press release for readers because we think it is useful. We also offer it because at least one of the quotes is rather troubling. Without proof one can only guess at what may be the motive for presenting opinions that may prove helpful to those considered terrorists. Accusations abound that certain positions described by politicians or attributed to opponents in a debate do nothing more than assist the enemy. Those accusations have been echoed here occasionally. But when an anonymous Republican candidate suggests that if there was another terrorist attack between now and the election Giuliani would win, we take issue with that. Not the sort of talk for selling magazines or advancing one’s campaign strategy.
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Newsweek Profile Looks at Whether Rudy Giuliani’s Virtues can Overcome His
Vices as He Begins 2008 Presidential Campaign
Polls Show Momentum, but ‘I can Guarantee You That the Majority of Southern
Baptists will not Vote for Giuliani,’ Says Richard Land of the Southern
Baptist Convention.NEW YORK, March 4 /PRNewswire/ — Rudy Giuliani told Larry King last
month that he was running for president before setting off on a series of
carefully staged campaign events around the country to prove the point.
Just showing that he meant it gave Giuliani a serious bump in the polls and
worried his rivals. After a slow start, Giuliani’s candidacy has gained
ground in recent weeks. In the new Newsweek Poll, Giuliani leads Sen. John
McCain by 25 points (59 to 34 percent) as the choice of registered
Republicans and voters leaning Republican for the party’s nomination, while
former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney trails both men by more than 30
points.“I have thought for the longest time that [Giuliani] had zero chance,”
an aide to another Republican candidate who asked for anonymity talking up
the chances of his boss’s rival, tells Newsweek. “But he’s got real
momentum. And if there’s a terrorist attack between now and the election,
he could be the next president of the United States.”
In the March 12 Newsweek cover, “The Real Rudy,” (on newsstands Monday,
March 5), Senior Writer and Political Correspondent Jonathan Darman
profiles Giuliani, the man who came to be known as “America’s Mayor”
following 9/11. Darman reports that the former mayor’s life story is that
of a man with a righteous sense of right and wrong and who excels when the
world presents him with a crisis, and, when left to his own devices,
creates crises for himself.
Darman examines what America will make of the real Giuliani, who still
may need to win over social conservatives as he begins his campaign. “I can
guarantee you that the majority of Southern Baptists will not vote for
Giuliani,” says Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty
Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. “President Truman said he
would never hire someone who cheated on his wife, because if a person
breaks his marriage oath he could also break his oath of office.”
“Giuliani is highly respected by lots of Americans because of his
leadership after 9/11,” says Gary Bauer, president of the conservative
nonprofit organization American Values. “In fact, there is evidence that it
might be the only thing people could tell you about him.” A particular
weakness for Giuliani may be gun control, a cause he advocated again and
again as part of his crimefighting plan in New York. Grover Norquist,
president of Americans for Tax Reform, asks: “The question is, do you need
someone who is 100 percent on these issues, or someone who reaches a
threshold? He wouldn’t be polling so well if he wasn’t coming close to a
certain threshold.”
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