No To President Giuliani

Republican voters, I know Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Giuliani is no friend of mine. Republican voters, you do not want Mr. Giuliani as your president.

Positions he has held, and from which he is now retreating, offend the Republican base. Take for example his support of gun control, abortion rights and gay rights. When I lived in New York City, I supported Mr. Giuliani for mayor because I as well as many gun rights supporters believed he would relax New York City’s restrictive gun licensing regime. Here are some simple things Mr. Giuliani could have done, but he did not: (1) Reduce the time within which the city must deny or grant a pistol permit (2) Reduce the application fee (3) Extend the life of a pistol permit (4) Reduce the burden of buying additional pistols (5) Eliminate the need to go to police headquarters to have each new pistol looked at by a police official (6) Relax the conditions under which the city may grant a full carry permit.

Mr. Giuliani has also been selling himself as an aggressive tax cutter, but has he always been that? Many of us may not recall that during one NY election for governor, Mr. Giuliani endorsed the incumbent liberal governor, Mr. Cuomo over the liberal Republican challenger, George Pataki. As a reason for his endorsement, Mr. Giuliani cited what he would consider Mr. Pataki’s too ambitious plans for tax cuts.

Here is Mr. Giuliani in his own words.