Rudy: “I’m asking for your prayers”
Update: Here’s Giuliani’s interview on The Glenn and Helen Show.
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Rudy Giuliani gets religion in Florida. It’s about all he has left:
With his plan for winning the GOP presidential nomination riding largely on a Florida victory at the end of the month, Rudy Giuliani asked an evangelical congregation for prayers instead of votes Sunday and quoted scripture to evoke a message of hope and perseverance.
“I’m not coming here to ask for your vote,” he said. “That’s up to you and it’s not the right place. But I am coming here to ask you for something very special and more important: I’m asking for your prayers.”
While other Republican candidates are focused on Tuesday’s Michigan primary, Giuliani is following a strategy of pushing for a Jan. 29 victory in Florida he hopes will propel him toward a dominant showing on Feb. 5, when more than 20 states hold primaries and caucuses, and then on to the nomination.
Once a strong front-runner in national polls, the former New York City mayor has fallen well behind the three candidates jockeying for a victory in Michigan, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee.
“I’ve faced odds that were at times seemingly impossible, situations where people had given up hope, but we didn’t listen to the doubters, we didn’t listen to the naysayers,” Giuliani told several thousand worshippers at El Rey Jesus church in Miami.
“Fear not, be strong, and of good courage,” he added, quoting the Bible. The church, with has a congregation of 10,000 people, was his first stop on a three-day bus tour through Florida.
Latest ABC poll shows more cratering:
On the Republican side, McCain’s support peaks among moderates, at 40 percent, vs. 22 percent for Giuliani; McCain’s gained 26 points among moderates since December while Giuliani’s lost 15 points. Conservatives — who predominate in most GOP primaries — split more narrowly, 25 percent for McCain, 23 percent for Huckabee and 17 percent for Romney, with 16 percent for Giuliani. Similarly, McCain has 36 percent support among independents — up 19 points since December — with Huckabee at 27 percent. McCain’s gains among independents have come at the expense of Romney and Giuliani, both down 10 points in this group, to 8 and 11 percent, respectively.
McCain has also gained ground among mainline Republicans, with 25 percent support, up 12 points since December, now running slightly ahead of Giuliani at 19 percent. Giuliani has lost 10 points among Republicans since December. Perhaps surprisingly, McCain is running competitively among evangelical white Protestants, a core Republican group, with 25 percent support to Huckabee’s 31 percent; that’s a 13-point gain for McCain since December, while Huckabee’s been essentially flat. Romney gets just 8 percent support from evangelicals, Giuliani, 15 percent.
In another of Giuliani’s weaker groups, he’s supported by just 12 percent of Republicans and Republican leaners who oppose legal abortion — and they account for 53 percent of the party.
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He needs to.
Pray for him??? Pray ABOUT him is what people are doing.
Rudy Giuliani Should Be GOP Nominee
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/rudy_giuliani_should_be_gop_no.html
Rudy did amazing things here in NYC, and I would take him over Huckabee, but he’s far from my first choice. Sorry, Rudy!
I wonder what the buzz would be right now if Texas, California and Washington were the first three primaries instead of Iowa, New Hampshire and Wyomming?
too much credit is being given the outcome of those first states… barf.
I definitely agree with you on that one aj …
#5/#6 Ditto!!!!
Rudy is not perfect, but he has experience managing a large, unruly city. Managing the US govt shouldn’t be a huge stretch for him. I like how he handled the 9/11 situation. The govt sorely needs a competent manager.
Double ditto
Now he gets religion. Well, I guess it usually is in our darkest moment…
Has he had any other epiphany that he would like to share with the voting populace?
I agree with ajmontana #5 about the smaller states getting all the press. I would like to see the states with the largest populations begin the nomination process. It would separate the wheat from the chaff pretty quick instead of this slow bleed. As far as the ABC polls or any other MSM polls let the buyer beware. Ever conservative I know detests McCain based on his record and most will not go for a populist candidate. Rudy proved himself a good administrator in New York City, but his sanctuary policies toward illegal invaders still bothers me.
The United States, as a whole, is not the same as New York City. It certainly isn’t representative of Middle America. Thank God or whoever your higher power may be.
So, I am not impressed that Rudy was mayor of that city. Likewise, I am not impressed that Huckabee or Romney were governor of their respective states.
As far as any candidate is concerned, I here a lot of empty promises for things that aren’t really within their scope of power as POTUS.
And, on the things that would be within their power, like illegal immigration, etc., I hear a lot of empty rhetoric.
Maybe I am just too jaded, when it comes to politicians anymore. I just get tired of seeing lies and doing whatever they have to do to get elected on the local, state and national levels.
The whole system is screwed up. Not only do the small states get too much attention, the next election now begins the day after the previous one ends.
Politicians say not what they mean, instead they say what their handlers believe will get them the most votes. Today’s system is a far cry from the system set up by our founding fathers.
God help us.
OT: Instead of praying for Rudy, pray for Mark Steyn and the others being persecuted by the muslim friendly Canadian Commission on Human Rights.
The reason you start with the small states is because the people can get to know the politicians. I think it is just fine the way it is. NO WAY do we need the large states go first. That way, anyone with a large marketing campaign can phone it in and win without ever meeting anyone to hear their actual needs.
If you want government to move further away from the people, have the nomination process start in a larger state. I think it is dumb to have all the primaries on the same day (Feb 5.) as I think every state should have its own day. If you did one primary every three days, you could be finished by April if you started in January.
Each state should be a separate battlefield, and the small states should start because money doesn’t matter so much in smaller states. MESSAGE MATTERS in small states. If you have a good message that resonates, you will do good.
And I really hope that the media figures out that polling ‘evangelical’ people is about the same as polling ‘American’ people. It is not descriptive and does not tell you anything.
He’s going to need a lot more than just prayers.
He would make a perfect Dem candidate, in fact, he is the perfect Dem candidate.
Giuliani is a gun grabber, a liberal who has the backing of every pro abortion group, homosexual group and a large percentage of media types.
He has had more wives than most people have had dogs, a real dependable family values type is Ol Rudy.
Yeah, yeah, sure, sure, he did 9/11 real good. Why the man had so much foresight he put the city’s command center in the largest target for attack. You know, the one that had been bombed before, the supposed symbol of America’s wealth and power. Real stroke of brilliant leadership there.
I suppose next he will march in a gay pride parade…wait…did that already. Maybe he will remove hand guns from the city so only criminals will…nope, did that too. Ahh… I know, he can pretend that he is Uncle Milty…darn, is there no limit to his accomplishments?
I guess there is nothing left for Rudy to accomplish, except be president.
If anyone wants more info on Rudy’s “accomplishments” then have a look here
As the lemmings fall into line, it’s beginning to look more and more like either McCain or Huckabee will be the nominee. Oh well, I’ve got lots of other things to do in November other than stand in line to vote.
Huckabee is also asking for prayers and votes, but he’s more forceful about it. He asked a group of Michigan pastors to email or phone call their followers to vote for him. Of course, he warns them to wear pajamas– not clerical collars–when doing so.
So some say they aren’t impressed with Rudy in NY. I wonder if they are from NY. Maybe if they were they would be more impressed. I’m impressed the way he took on the mob, I’m impressed with the way he cleaned up the city and I’m impressed with his handling of 9/11. He does need prayers. I don’t like his liberal stands either. Maybe the prayers will help him. I’d love to see an anti-abortion Rudy.
Lord, I pray that all the Presidential candidates that are poser’s get tangled in their own web’s of lies and deceit and those that who would use your name in their campaign’s for their personal gain, all that do these thing’s fail miserably in their endevor to be POTUS.
In the name of Jesus Christ Amen.
There I prayed for him and all the other’s too.
Rudy was a great mayor of NYC. He has a rotten personality and he is mean and vindictive but that does not matter a heck of a lot in the noble cause of defeating Hillary.
Blind_Mule
AMEN.
& May YOUR WILL
Father, Almighty,
be done as regards the next POTUS…..
that America be restored to a Nation
which is a LIGHT unto the World.
FATHER, NOTHING IS OUTSIDE YOUR WILL!
God Help America.
1968/while Hippies were tearing up American values, this was in the MidEast!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKmwj29zH_8
Rudy is not in any way out or near it. The vast majority of the country is hearing this info like they normally do until we get close to election day – as a mere footnote to their daily lives. Huckabee was on top of the world a week ago, now he’s way down. Conversely McCain was written off a week ago, and today he’s the national frontrunner. If Rudy wins in those places that heavily favor him, then he’s way out ahead of everyone again, like Huckabee or McCain is now, that’s how it works early on. The key is how much the early momentum carries forward after the next primary or two. Huckabee’s reversal and Romney sinking fast as well as McCain’s surg, however, shows this process at the current stage is as fluid as a river. One big win and Rudy is riding on top again.
Yes, he has issues on a couple of conservative issues, opposing abortion ethically for instance, without demanding to outlaw it, but what amazes me is how his record as an executive leader appropriate to the President doesn’t get more play among conservatives. He presided over the 3rd largest economy in the US (NYC is more than just “a city”), much than that of Mass or Arakansas, continually lowered taxes (in Liberal NY) and wound up with a budgetary surplus while turning the city’s blighted areas around physically. That’s an almost miraculous combination of circumstances and accomplishment. Don’t think so? Well, then answer this: who else that you can think of who has done something of that magnitude? He prosecuted like mad much to the anger of the NYC media. Drove the mafia out of decades-old strongholds – something no one else wanted to tangle with (need a guy to get tough with Iran?) He used clever rules and regulations to start small and eventually drive virtually all the the crazies off the street and get rid of the drug-infested and disease-spreading (and immoral) blight that were the porno-houses, again in constant defiance of the media which continually villified him for his “assult against the first amendment ( a guy who doesn’t bow to media pressure – hugely important), which seems to be how he’s palnning to go after illegal immigration: start small by immediately deporting the criminals and move forward from there (to those who have followed him continually that’s a pattern he’s used his entire career, and, unfortuanately for campaigning, a plan that is much more difficult to put into practice if you advertise your full intentions in advance)
I’ve posed the question now a few times on this board: find a single candidate – just one – drop that candidate’s rhetorical posturing and give us his record of manifest tangible accomplishment, things you can see – not just talk; no citing that candidate saying rhetorical postures such as “working for” this and “I’ve always supported that”. Stick to the record of tangible accomplishment and put him or her up against Rudy. No one has done it, and in my opinion, no one can. If you can find me someone running with a better record of tangible accomplishment, I’ll change my vote. That’s a promise. For real.
Tough on illegals? Rudy? You must have been asleep when he vowed to ignore federal law on illegals, and kept his vow. Rudy is what he always has been. His record speaks for itself.
I can’t find anyone running with more manifestly tangible accomplishments as a liberal than Rudy, unless it’s Huckabee.
BTW, what is the deal with Mr.Tough on Crime and Bernard Kerik?
Rudy reported illegals like mad, but the Feds did nothing, and the laws are written that as Mayor there wasn’t much else he could do. You know that. Keep it honest.
Since you got cute, I’ll repeat the question directly, and keep it straight and honest, okay?
Find a single candidate – just one – drop that candidate’s rhetorical posturing and give us his record of manifest tangible accomplishment, things you can see – not just talk; no citing that candidate saying rhetorical postures such as “working for” this and “I’ve always supported that”. Stick to the record of tangible accomplishment and put him or her up against Rudy.
I’m looking forward to your serious, no-kidding answer, since experience comes first – anyone can talk a good game.
I’ll pass on trying to reason you out of a position you were never reasoned into.
You can keep things honest by looking at his record for yourself. It ain’t cute, not one bit.
You can also look up the voting records of Thompson and Hunter. Much cuter than Rudy’s, in my opinion of course.
Nice try, CS, but superior posturing and relying on other sites filled with past-record-fakery to dance around the question posed doesn’t cut it. I was in NY throughout his term, I know what he did and pretty much how he did it.
I don’t care about voting records, quite frankly; the Presidency isn’t a legislative job, it’s an executive job, which is why senatorial candidates should be the last ones in line for the job unless they have prior experience before the senate of relevent experience for the job of President. We’re hiring a candidate for a job, and I don’t care if his resume says he spend 5 years on the high school chess club, I want to see what he’s accomplished in tangible ways.
Now, we’ll try this again slowy and carefully shall we, and if you don’t want to respond directly to the question fine, but then don’t respond at all because nobody needs the bullsh*t and the question wasn’t posed as a bullsh*t magnet, thanks, so respect the rules of the game:
Find me one candidate and cite his or her record of only manifest, tangible accomplishment and compare it to Rudy Giuliani’s. I’ll be fair and open minded. Always. I want to vote for the best candidate also. Convince me and you win. I’ll change my vote. Promise. Now go at it squarely or – pardon my own straight-talk express – shut the f*** up; this country is in a critical time and there is no room for idealistic posturing, wishful thinking on what the next president – an executive job - can do and bullsh*t/spin. Fair? Fair.
Remember, respect the rules of the posed question. Now be my quest. Have at it.