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To: jlallen who wrote (756718)	1/2/2007 3:27:09 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Guliani does have support...but he has been pro-choice, pro-gun control (at some level), has been married three times, has admitted to an extramarital affair (after lying about it at first, but not under oath)......would the social conservatives accept this in a Presidential candidate?

To: jlallen who wrote (756718)	1/2/2007 3:52:03 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Guilani may not even run....

To: jlallen who wrote (756718)	1/3/2007 10:55:37 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Giuliani plan for tilt at top job aired A correspondent in New York 04jan07 theaustralian.news.com.au IT is clearly laid out in 140 pages of printed text, handwriting and spreadsheets: the top-secret plan for Rudy Giuliani's bid for the White House. The remarkably detailed dossier sets out the budgets, schedules and fundraising plans that will underpin the former New York mayor's presidential campaign - as well as his aides' worries that personal and political baggage could scuttle his run. At the centre of his efforts: a massive fundraising push to bring in at least $US100million ($125.5 million) this year, with a scramble for $US25 million in the next three months alone. The document was obtained by the New York Daily News from a source sympathetic to one of Mr Giuliani's rivals for the White House. The loss of the battle plan is a remarkable breach in the high-stakes game of presidential politics and a potentially disastrous blunder for Mr Giuliani in the early stages of his campaign. The source said it was left behind in one of the cities Mr Giuliani visited as he campaigned for dozens of Republican candidates in the weeks leading up to last November's elections. Giuliani spokeswoman Sunny Mindel suggested political dirty tricks were behind the loss of the documents and called the timing suspicious. "I wonder why such suspicious activity is occurring and can only guess it is because of Rudy's poll numbers in New Hampshire and Iowa," Ms Mindel said. She downplayed its importance, saying it was "simply someone's ideas, which were committed to paper over three months ago". Mr Giuliani leads most public opinion polls of Republican primary voters, though he has not announced his candidacy for president. But the dossier, which envisions spending more than $US 21million this year, shows that Mr Giuliani began meeting potential supporters in April last year and that by October his staff had a detailed plan for a serious presidential bid. But they also depict a candidate torn between his prosperous business and a political future full of promise and risk. One page cites the explicit concern that he might "drop out of (the) race" as a consequence of his potentially "insurmountable" personal and political vulnerabilities. On the same page is a list of the candidate's central problems in bullet-point form: his private sector business; disgraced former aide Bernard Kerik; his third wife, Judith Nathan Giuliani; "social issues", on which he is more liberal than most Republicans; and his former wife, Donna Hanover. The detailed fundraising plans depict a campaign scrambling to catch up with the organizational advantage of Mr Giuliani's Republican rivals, particularly Arizona senator John McCain. Some of the leading figures in American business and finance appear as the "prospective leadership" of Mr Giuliani's campaign. Their names appear elsewhere with instructions for Mr Giuliani to call and seek their support. The binder's pages are unsigned, but several pages have the initials "AD" circled, apparently referring to Mr Giuliani's chief fundraiser, Anne Dickerson. She is also the most likely person to have prepared the bulk of the binder's contents, which detail his fundraising plan. Mr Giuliani is a hugely popular fundraiser for his party, due largely to his response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, for which he was called "America's mayor". MCT