Comments on: David Brooks surprised that Rudy is acting like a Republican.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:52:48 +0000

Today I saw a Lincoln Navigator in the Wal-Mart parking lot. It had a Bush/Cheney ‘04 sticker on it’s rear window.

I almost felt sorry for them. Can you imagine going around with a ‘kick me’ sign on your back and being too stupid to scrape it off.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:48:21 +0000

LS @ 51

“Nine days after registering his presidential exploratory committee last November, Rudolph Giuliani appeared in Singapore to help a Las Vegas developer make a pitch for a $3.5 billion casino resort.

Though the bid ultimately failed, and there was nothing illegal about the involvement, it drew Giuliani into a complex partnership with the family of a controversial Hong Kong billionaire who has ties to the regime of North Korea’s Kim Jong Il and has been linked to international organized crime by the U.S. government.”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/.....2784.story

Obviously not important. Nothing to see here. Move along. Please.

It’s not like giving a guy with international mob connections the presidency is in any way going to be worse than what we have now. Of course, we might be better off with President John Edwards. IMO

By: MarkH

MarkH — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:41:54 +0000

Elliott @ 36

TheraP @ 35

David Brooks is a cheap talking suit.

edited for clarity

a cheap badly fitting off the rack suit with a nasty grease stain, but at least he’s pleasant, and from men on t.v. isn’t that really all we can expect?

By: a_m

a_m — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 04:11:38 +0000

When Bobo waxes romantic about the “the sort of hard-working strivers who live in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx,” rest assured that he’s talking about the *white* parts of the outer boros; certainly, neither Bed-Stuy nor East Elmhurst were in Rudy’s camp like, ever. Highly coded for New Yorkers there.

By: portia.vz

portia.vz — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:54:14 +0000

What David Brooks, the educated man’s O’Reilly, is trying to do is signal to the suburbanites that Giuliani is one of them and that he’s only posturing in order to get the mouth breathers to vote for him.
Whether he is that way or not that way isn’t really the point. The Republicans want their cake and eat it to and as long as they are on the *winning* team, it doesn’t really matter.
Winning is everything.

By: maxcat06

maxcat06 — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:43:33 +0000

George Simian @ 13

Rudy’s gone off the deep end. Why is it that Republicans these days have no principles. Not even their own. They say they want small Gov’t, but they’ve made the biggest Gov’t in history, not counting the one in Iraq. They say they want Gov’t out of our lives, but then get all excited about warrantless wiretapping and hurry back to DC to sign Terri Schivo legislation. They’re all for State’s rights unless that State wants to regulate pollution, or do anything not Republican. Etc. Etc.

Absolutely…Rudy is just running as a proud GOPer, nothing more, nothing less. McCain, Romney and the rest are doing the same; don’t like my stand on something? Come back tomorrow!

By: Blue Texan

Blue Texan — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:35:11 +0000

the biggest losers under the bush/cheney ascension have been what remained of moderate republicans.

Yes, the HW Bush/Chafee/Souter Republicans are extinct.

By: pluege

pluege — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:42:47 +0000

what ever moderate republicans existed lost any remains of influence they may have had after reagan, once the bush/cheney fanatics took control. brooks and will have no purpose to today’s GOP at all except to help propagate the lie that the republican party is anything but extremist plutocrats, theocrats, and warmongers.

the biggest losers under the bush/cheney ascension have been what remained of moderate republicans.
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By: perris

perris — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:24:35 +0000

Richmond @ 69

Foreign Governements should not be allowed to lobby at tax payer expense in the U.S. Period. End of Story. Why should our tax dollars continue to support AIP*C - and its efforts to pressure the US into more middle east war? They also are funding radical student groups on college campuses in the U.S.

nor should corporations as far as I am concerned

corporations should be forced to bring their case to a public vote and not be able to buy votes in congress

By: Madison Guy

Madison Guy — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:24:26 +0000

Giuliani, Romney, McCain, Clinton, Obama, Edwards — Once any candidate gets elected, both parties are so hopelessly flawed and terminally compromised by big money and special interests, there’s no difference… NOT. An old bumper sticker on a rusty car reminds me of what’s important: That worked so well last time around, didn’t it?