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Rudy Giuliani.(REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE)(Biography)
"By the time I left office, New York City was being proclaimed as the best example of conservative government in the country. We turned it into the large city in America.--R. Giuliani.
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani started out his career as a Democrat. As his mother attests, "He only became a Republican after he began to get all these jobs from them. He's definitely not a conservative Republican. He thinks he is, but he isn't. He still feels very sorry for the poor." Putting aside the fact that genuine advocates of limited government aren't callous to the plight of the poor, his social positions indicate that his mother is correct. CNN.com reports that Giuliani proclaimed, "I'm pro-choice. I'm pro-gay rights." He was then asked whether he supports a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortions. "No, I have not supported that, and I don't see my position on that changing," he responded.
If you like the Bush administration's method of tackling terrorism, chances are that you'll love Giuliani's. His positions are basically Bush's positions--on steroids.
Giuliani is 100 percent for the Patriot Act. Writing in an op-ed piece in the New York Times, he said, "The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 made clear that the old rules no longer work"; hence, he supports new restrictions. He acknowledges that there are many legitimate concerns with the Patriot Act, but he dismisses them, claiming that the government has built in "safeguards" to prevent civil rights abuses: "Concerns have been raised about the so-called library records provision; the bill adds safeguards. The same is true for roving wiretaps, 'sneak and peek' searches and access to counsel and courts, as well as many other concerns raised by groups like the American Library Association and the American Civil Liberties Union."
His backing of Bush-type policy is long-standing. In 1994, Giuliani gave a speech after he had been elected mayor of New York City, where he told an audience that "freedom is about authority." He told the New York Times: "We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority.... What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do."
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