Having said that, I fully believe Mr. Thompson will run and then it’s going to be a very different picture for both parties. Lots of wet panties on both sides, but more on the Left.

HANNITY: Let me move on. And the issue of guns has come up a lot. When people talk about Mayor Giuliani, New York City had some of the toughest gun laws in the entire country. Do you support the right of people to carry handguns?

GIULIANI: I understand the Second Amendment. I support it. People have the right to bear arms. When I was mayor of New York, I took over at a very, very difficult time. We were averaging about 2,000 murders a year, 10,000…

HANNITY: You inherited those laws, the gun laws in New York?

GIULIANI: Yes, and I used them. I used them to help bring down homicide. We reduced homicide, I think, by 65-70 percent. And some of it was by taking guns out of the streets of New York City.

So if you’re talking about a city like New York, a densely populated area like New York, I think it’s appropriate. You might have different laws other places, and maybe a lot of this gets resolved based on different states, different communities making decisions. After all, we do have a federal system of government in which you have the ability to accomplish that.

HANNITY: So you would support the state’s rights to choose on specific gun laws?

GIULIANI: Yes, I mean, a place like New York that is densely populated, or maybe a place that is experiencing a serious crime problem, like a few cities are now, kind of coming back, thank goodness not New York, but some other cities, maybe you have one solution there and in another place, more rural, more suburban, other issues, you have a different set of rules.

HANNITY: But generally speaking, do you think it’s acceptable if citizens have the right to carry a handgun?

GIULIANI: It’s not only — I mean, it’s part of the Constitution. People have the right to bear arms. Then the restrictions of it have to be reasonable and sensible. You can’t just remove that right. You’ve got to regulate, consistent with the Second Amendment.

So basically, he loves the Constitution, but will ignore it in certain situations if it makes fighting crime easier. My question is … where is that line going to be drawn. Will he have it re-written to say “the right to bear arms … except in areas that are densely populated?”

he already has shown he’s changed a bit on gun control (see Fox News interview).

amerpundit on March 11, 2007 at 7:07 PM

No he hasn’t. He openly claims that the government should be allowed to violate the constitution “if it helps reduce crime.”

20 years ago. Let’s remember something, shall we? Reagan was a Democrat

amerpundit on March 11, 2007 at 6:16 PM

There’s one major problem with this common desire to think Rudy might have “changed.”

HE HASN’T! As recently as last week, he’s been doing interviews talking up his liberal stances. He hasn’t changed his stance on a single thing. If I can compliment him on anything, it’s his honesty.

The Republican front runner is Pro Iraq, pro abortion, anti gun, big government, amnesty for illegals and the Democratic front runner is anti Iraq, pro abortion, anti gun, big government, amnesty for illegals. I like many others fail to see a whole lot of difference there. Its hard to carry water for the party on Iraq when you keep getting kicked in the teeth on domestic issues day in and day out.

The GOP cannot win without its base but apparently they haven’t figured that out yet.

Those conservatives who wanted to “Send a message” in 2006 have no right now to complain about “Generals” Pelosi and Murtha calling the shots.
I happen to live in the real world, not some ideologues world – and for whatever faults Rudy has, he was a terrific mayor of NYC and the only one who I am fairly confident would have the cojones to stand up to the mullahs of Iran as well as Hamas instead of sending Clueless Condi of the Veil on one of her endless “peace missions” to Ramallah.

Yesterday I caught Karl Rove on C-Span, as a guest at the Clinton Library in Arkansas. He said the win for the liberal congress was only a matter of a few thousand votes. I was shocked. The independents/conservatives sent a message – but what did we end up with? Hopefully they’ll be scared enough in ‘08 to realize the short/long-term consequences of ‘teaching lessons’ and na-na-na-ing.

Hilts, I agree with you – now, let’s make sure this never, ever, will happen!!!

Thanks.
People fail to remember that a Duncan Hunter type of conservative has absolutely zero chances in New York City or Massachusetts. Besides what a mayor thinks about abortion is irrelevant. He cannot order abortion to be illegal (and neither can the President). There were some conservatives in NYC who hated Rudy so much that they supported Ron Lauder and later George Marlin even though neither had a snowballs’ chance in Hell of being elected Mayor. They thought that there actually was no difference between Rudy Giuliani and David Dinkins and Rudy Giuliani and Ruth Messinger. I almost pitied them for there ideologically driven insanity. Rudy’s enemies all came for the Left – Al Sharpton (my former calssmate) whom Rudy told to go to hell, The Municipal Unions, The New York Times, The Village Voice, the New Amsterdam News, Jimmy Breslin, Alton Maddox, and unfortunately (even though he endorsed him) a jealous Ed Koch (admittedly no Leftist). If a man is judged by his enemies then we know that Rudy is quite a leader. Rudy telling that Saudi Prince to go to Hell was his finest individual moment.
By the way Donna Hanover was a harpy shrew (who also appeared in “The Vagina Monologues”) who when Rudy (who was sleeping on the couch) was suffering from the ill effects of radiation treatments for his prostate cancer) would wake him up at 5:00 AM as she noisily did her aerobics. She also refused to even say if she voted for him.

When Hillary raises her hand on the Bible in Jan. 2009, a lot of people will deserve to see that because they put ideological purity over winning.

Hilts on March 11, 2007 at 9:22 PM

Hilts, I agree with you – now, let’s make sure this never, ever, will happen!!!

Oh come on. Allah’s stalking, er, courting of KP is kinda cute.

JackStraw on March 11, 2007 at 5:59 PM

There’s nothing like situation comedy, also referred to as sitcom.

Sitcoms are based on such premises as the fish out of water, the foil, the young protagonist’s point of view, misunderstandings, and the parody of serious versions of their characters or genres.

Next RINO please.

Giuliani’s Private Life May Hurt His Run [Associated Press]

Extremely ironic and funny, in a strange way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_(New_York_State)

Reagan was also divorced, I’ve read he was pro-choice while a governor of California but not sure about that…point is, whats important is to get a Republican in the whitehouse and keep Hillary/obama out!

Were republican-liberals different than democratic-liberals back then?

lorien1973, is right. He did change several ideals, including his ideology on taxes. He was originally in favor of big taxes, the opposite of Bush’s tax cuts.

Reagan was also married twice, divorced once.