Texas governor Rick Perry endorses Giuliani
Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday won the endorsement of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, despite their differences on abortion rights.
Perry, an abortion opponent, said his biggest concern had been Giuliani’s support for abortion rights but that he was satisfied Giuliani would appoint judges who view the issue conservatively.
“The one (issue) that I wanted to hear him give me an answer and look me right in my eyes was that issue of who can I expect, what type of individual can I expect on the Supreme Court,” Perry said at a news conference with Giuliani.
“He clearly said … you can look for people like Scalia and Roberts and Alito. Let me tell you, I can live with that,” Perry said, referring to conservative Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts.
Perry said when he buys a pickup truck, he doesn’t rule it out simply because it has one option he doesn’t like.
Giuliani, who is addressing social conservative voters this weekend in Washington, said he wants conservatives to focus on areas where he agrees with them.
“I’m not going to get every vote,” he said. “The idea is going to be that there’s enough we agree about and enough we’re facing — foreign threats and domestic problems — that it may just be if they think about it, that I’m the best candidate.”
“What I really want is a relationship in which we respect each other, even if we disagree,” Giuliani said.
Thanks to http://giulianiblog.blogspot.com/ for the above material.
Later today, I'll write more about how much of what average Americans "know" is true about taxes is in fact NOT true. If you didn't get a chance to hear Adam Brickley's excellent appearance on Douglas Gibbs's Political Pistachio (available at blogspot.com, you can listen to the program on Political Pistachio's archive.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Sarah (Palin) Surging! Mike (Huckabee) Pandering?
NOTE: MY MOST RECENT BLOG VISITORS CAME FROM THE FOLLOWING PLACES: Anchorage, AK; Juneau, AK; Kasilof, AK; and Fairbanks, AK.
My motto is: You can never have too many Alaskans visiting your blog -- or too many in the White House (keep that in mind Sarah, Todd, Bristol, Willow, and Piper).
I recommend highly a very pro-Palin column by Douglas Gibbs of http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/ Here's an excerpt: "Sarah's supporters are nationwide. A group of bloggers have done all they know how to do to introduce Governor Palin to the American Public. One such blogger is a young man named Adam Brickley, a college student who launched the Draft Palin effort for Vice President."
Also, SJ Reidhead (Cindy), who has achieved what we all seek -- that is, becoming a FAMOUS blogger -- is writing again in support of Sarah's efforts in a Sunday post at ThePinkFlamingo.
In conjunction with his remarkable efforts on Sarah's behalf, Adam Brickley, founder of the Draft Palin movement is getting a great deal of publicity. Online media guru Patrick Ruffini (see the two Saturday columns below) in his Townhall essay gives Sarah a good solid "A" grade in her performance as Governor. Ruffini also calls attention to Adam's blog (http://palinforvp.blogspot.com/) and Trish's http://palintology.com/. For some reason, he neglected to mention me, but because I like Patrick, I forgive him.
If you're fascinated by blog-driven campaigns, take a look at Mike Huckabee's blog site at: http://www.mikehuckabee.com/ Mike's efffort with bloggers is -- by far -- the best of any of the candidates. Apparently, he has more than 200 bloggers listed, and the campaign pays attention to the "care and feeding" of this group.
The problem with Huckabee's bloggers is a variation on the his campaign's central problem: that his supporters really aren't willing to let him deviate from right-wing evangelical positions. For example, when Mike suggested that racism might have played some role in the immigration debate, there was something resembling a howl from his base -- and Mike soon "clarified" his comment out of existence. His remarks that "life doesn't END at birth" put him on dangerous grounds with the small band of evangelicals -- Dr. Laurence White being one -- who often act as if they believe life does end at birth.
Huckabee's bloggers communicate mainly with one another. That means they have very little outreach to people who don't know much about the candidate. Thus, Mike's many active bloggers fail to create anything resembling viral marketing. It's something like the old line about Boston, "the land of the bean and the cod, where the Cabots speaks only to the Lodges, and the Lodges speak only to God." In short, Mike's bloggers need to get out more into the real world, where not everyone is an evangelical Baptist.
In short, Mike Huckabee exists in a cage constructed by his supporters. (Later today, I'll discuss Huckabee's recent comment again gay marriage -- and how it reinforces an image of him as something of an Arkansas homophobe pandering to the Dr. Dobson and Laurence White types.)
My motto is: You can never have too many Alaskans visiting your blog -- or too many in the White House (keep that in mind Sarah, Todd, Bristol, Willow, and Piper).
I recommend highly a very pro-Palin column by Douglas Gibbs of http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/ Here's an excerpt: "Sarah's supporters are nationwide. A group of bloggers have done all they know how to do to introduce Governor Palin to the American Public. One such blogger is a young man named Adam Brickley, a college student who launched the Draft Palin effort for Vice President."
Also, SJ Reidhead (Cindy), who has achieved what we all seek -- that is, becoming a FAMOUS blogger -- is writing again in support of Sarah's efforts in a Sunday post at ThePinkFlamingo.
In conjunction with his remarkable efforts on Sarah's behalf, Adam Brickley, founder of the Draft Palin movement is getting a great deal of publicity. Online media guru Patrick Ruffini (see the two Saturday columns below) in his Townhall essay gives Sarah a good solid "A" grade in her performance as Governor. Ruffini also calls attention to Adam's blog (http://palinforvp.blogspot.com/) and Trish's http://palintology.com/. For some reason, he neglected to mention me, but because I like Patrick, I forgive him.
If you're fascinated by blog-driven campaigns, take a look at Mike Huckabee's blog site at: http://www.mikehuckabee.com/ Mike's efffort with bloggers is -- by far -- the best of any of the candidates. Apparently, he has more than 200 bloggers listed, and the campaign pays attention to the "care and feeding" of this group.
The problem with Huckabee's bloggers is a variation on the his campaign's central problem: that his supporters really aren't willing to let him deviate from right-wing evangelical positions. For example, when Mike suggested that racism might have played some role in the immigration debate, there was something resembling a howl from his base -- and Mike soon "clarified" his comment out of existence. His remarks that "life doesn't END at birth" put him on dangerous grounds with the small band of evangelicals -- Dr. Laurence White being one -- who often act as if they believe life does end at birth.
Huckabee's bloggers communicate mainly with one another. That means they have very little outreach to people who don't know much about the candidate. Thus, Mike's many active bloggers fail to create anything resembling viral marketing. It's something like the old line about Boston, "the land of the bean and the cod, where the Cabots speaks only to the Lodges, and the Lodges speak only to God." In short, Mike's bloggers need to get out more into the real world, where not everyone is an evangelical Baptist.
In short, Mike Huckabee exists in a cage constructed by his supporters. (Later today, I'll discuss Huckabee's recent comment again gay marriage -- and how it reinforces an image of him as something of an Arkansas homophobe pandering to the Dr. Dobson and Laurence White types.)
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