Curt Pringle, the conservative mayor of Anaheim and onetime speaker of the California Assembly, is a pro-life Republican who endorsed pro-choice Rudy Giuliani for president last March and since then has been actively engaged in his campaign. After conversations with Giuliani, Pringle takes at face value the former New York mayor's pledge to nominate Supreme Court justices in the mold of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. That reassurance on abortion makes it possible for Pringle and many other prominent California Republicans to pursue an ambitious political design.

Pringle and the state's other Giuliani supporters want to bring California back to relevance in selecting the Republican nominee and electing the president. They resent that the nation's most populous state is presumed to follow Iowa's and New Hampshire's lead in picking presidents. They resent California being consigned as a general election backwater, conceded to the Democrats. Giuliani is seen by Pringle resurrecting California as a significant player for both the nomination and election.

What seemed fanciful in March looks more realistic in October. Giuliani has maintained double-digit California leads over other Republicans all year. With the state primary moved up to Feb. 5 and voting beginning a month earlier, its results could negate the outcome in early small state primaries. Giuliani's popularity here with political leaders such as Pringle is based on the belief he is the only Republican who can challenge Hillary Clinton in blue states -- New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as California. (...)

Also sprach Giuliani
Rudolph Giuliani ha tenuto il suo atteso speech venerdì sera, ore 2pm locali , presso il CPAC 2007 - Conservative Political Action Conference - a Washington.
Secondo alcuni sarebbe stato per Giuliani un intervento in partibus infidelium, considerandolo "poco Conservative"; non per noi, che valutiamo le sue posizioni pro-choice sui diritti civili fondate su un approccio solidamente conservative, del tutto analoghe a quelle di un certo Ronald Reagan Governatore della California, quando divenne uno dei massimi presidenti americani nonché icona Conservatrice. [leggi il resto su Nequidnimis]

Also sprach Giuliani - the video
Facendo seguito al post precedente, abbiamo recuperato lo YouTube di parti essenziali del discorso di Rudolph Giuliani al CPAC, venerdì scorso.
Abbiamo anche inserito al suo fianco il magnifico discorso di presentazione al CPAC tenuto dal columnist George Will: dopo averlo sentito, se ci fossero ancora dubbi sull'essere truly & consistently conservative di Rudy, fatevi vedere, da uno bravo però. Il video, contrariamente alla fantastica intro, riguarda solo la parte relativa alla sicurezza e la guerra al terrore del discorso di Rudy, per cui interessa particolarmente noi "stranieri". [leggi il resto su Nequidnimis]

Only a few months ago, conventional wisdom throughout much of the political world was that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani might make a competitive Republican candidate for president in a general election, but he could never win his party’s nomination because conservative primary voters would reject him.

Now, suddenly, that wisdom seems to have shifted, and as Giuliani trouped through California recently, he was wowing conservatives with his charisma, his gift for sounding spontaneous on the stump and his call for bold national leadership.

Il quotidiano di Sacramento (California) Pueblo Chieftain (via Blogs for Giuliani), ci racconta le prime mosse verso le primarie di Giuliani, McCain e Romney. E scopre che, ai conservatori californiani, Rudy non dispiace affatto. Anzi.