From today's NRA panderfest, America's Mayor shows his consistency and resolve:
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Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Friday said Americans' right to own guns is as important as free speech in remarks to a powerful gun advocacy group that has long viewed him with suspicion.Giuliani acknowledged his differences with the National Rifle Association, a group he once referred to as "extremists." As New York mayor, Giuliani initiated a lawsuit against U.S. firearms manufacturers.
"You never get a candidate you agree with 100 percent," Giuliani told an NRA convention in Washington, then chuckling, "I'm not even sure I agree with myself 100 percent."
One can only wonder, then, if Rudy agreed with himself 100% or not when he said this? (Props to Glenn Greenwald.)
Rudy Giuliani talked tough on Iran yesterday, proposing to expand NATO to include Israel and warning that if Iran's leaders go ahead with their goal to be a nuclear power "we will prevent it, or we will set them back five or 10 years."----
While Giuliani did not explicitly address the implications for Iran of adding Israel to NATO in his speech, his aides later highlighted a 2006 Heritage Foundation paper by Nile Gardiner, a former Thatcher aide who was announced as a new Giuliani adviser yesterday.
That step would "leave the mullahs with no illusions about the West's determination to respond to Iran's strategic threat to the region," Gardiner wrote. "Any nuclear or conventional attack on Israel, be it direct or through proxies such as Hezbollah or other terrorist groups, would be met by a cataclysmic response from the West."
Terrific. Apocalypse Now & Forevermore, brought to you by the Office of the President of 9/11®. But hey, when not espousing perpetual war, there's always time for a little levity, especially when you're cajoling those wacky wags at the NRA:
Giuliani brought some comic relief to the session when his cell phone rang in mid-speech and he pulled it out of his pocket and said hello to his wife, Judith."Hello, dear. I'm talking to the members of the NRA right now. Would you like to say hello?" he said.
Lord Almighty, who in the world is handling this guy? I'm only surprised he didn't work a "shotgun marriage" joke into his speech.
---Vitelius
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