Rudy Guiliani As President? by Alex Saitta
August 5, 2007
by Alex Saitta of www.pickenspolitics.com
August 4, 2007
I lived in New York City when Rudy Giuliani was the mayor from 1993 to 2001. Rudy is an extremely capable leader. When he puts his mind to something, it gets accomplished.
He is fiscally conservative. He was successful in cutting business and personal income tax rates in New York City and reducing welfare significantly. He also is very law and order. He took the mob out of the Fulton Street fish market and the garbage hauling industry, and reduced crime by more than half in the worst areas of the city and cleaned up Time Square, which was polluted with sex shops, and drug users. His social views are liberal. He took actions to protect illegal immigrants from the INS, he supports gay-rights, is pro-abortion and sued gun manufacturers.
My fear is, Giuliani gets elected President, and we have a Democrat Congress. I think Rudy will see the path of least resistance as pushing through the Democrat Congress his socially liberal ideas.
If the Republicans take back the Congress, I think Rudy will push his fiscally conservative ideas, knowing he’ll have the votes in Congress to rein in spending and reform government. For conservatives, Rudy would be a good President, if we had the 1994 Republican Congress.
Having said all that, the Democrats are afraid of Rudy, because they know he is the one candidate Republican candidate who will get votes all along the political spectrum. In NYC, which is 4 to 1 Democrats, Rudy won two elections as a Republican.
Both parties know if you win 3 of the following 4 states, you win the Presidency: Those states are California, Texas, New York and Florida. A southerner teamed up with Rudy, takes Texas, New York, and Florida and the Republicans win the White House.
Dems know that, and that is why they don’t want Rudy as a nominee for President or even as the Vice President. They will be gunning to destroy him over the next year. You’ll see liberals pounding on Giuliani for his socially liberal ideas, just trying to discredit him with the Republican voters. It will be a fight that could destroy Rudy as a nominee and VP material.
If I was the Republican national chairman, I would have advised Giuliani to stay out of the primary and avoided this upcoming fight and the exposure of all his negatives on social issues and in his marriages. Once the Presidential nominee was picked, I would have pushed to make Rudy the Vice President, and then had him work the northeastern states and Florida. Guiliani will deliver New York, the rest of the northeast and Florida, which are rich in electoral votes. If the Presidential nominee can deliver Texas and the south. The Republicans win going away.
Republicans have the best strategy to win, and I think that is it, but Giuliani is so strong headed, he wants to be at the top of the ticket, so he wasn’t going to go along with that.
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Breaking News: Chellis to fire Henry White upon being named Treasurer
SCHotline has learned from credible sources that one of Converse Chellis’s first actions as Treasurer will be firing Henry White.
Henry White, who became the first African-American in state history to occupy the post of Executive Director of the S.C. Budget and Control Board in January, is supposedly on the General Assembly’s guillotine because of his ties and friendship with Governor Mark Sanford.
White, 45, an attorney, has served in Gov. Sanford’s administration for the past four years as Chief Legal Counsel and more recently as Chief of Staff as well. White was named to his position with the Budget and Control Board after Governor Sanford, Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom, and then Treasurer Thomas Ravenel voted in favor of naming White Executive Director.
This is the second day in a row in which Chellis has been the subject of rampant rumors around the State House.
Yesterday, SCHotline.com learned that Chellis had been the subject of a lawsuit because an ex-business partner of his alleged of his improper conduct towards women and of his embezzlement of company finances.
Will the Good Ol’ Boy system reign supreme and stick with their man Chellis, or will these rumors cause leadership to rethink their selection.
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[UPDATE]
- Oran P. Smith - August 2, 2007
- These accusations aside, we should think hard about the future of two truly outstanding South Carolinians who happen to be African-American,TIM SCOTT and HENRY WHITE.
Unfortunately, TIM SCOTT won’t be elected Treasurer. If a Screening Commission were to be established, as Spartanburg businessman Lee Bright suggested to me today, maybe Mr. Scott would have gotten up to the plate. But it is not to be. Still, as everyone in Charleston knows, South Carolina needs Tim Scott in a prominent role statewide. (Tim has served ably in public office for over a decade, most recently as Chairman of Charleston County Council, and is one of the founders of Palmetto Family Council.)
HENRY WHITE could also be facing a future of being underutilized. Will legislative members and Chellis sack White from his position as Executive Director of the state Budget & Control Board? That would also be a loss to the state.
