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Within the hour, social conservative leader and televangelist Pat Robertson will ENDORSE Rudy Giuliani for President.

So who is Pat Robertson?

Robertson is widely viewed as one of the pillars of the religious right. He founded the Christian Broadcasting Network, the Christian Coalition and Regent University in Virginia Beach. Robertson ran for president in 1988, finishing a surprising second in the Iowa caucuses before losing steam in later states.

This is a COUP for Giuliani and highlights the split in the social conservative movement.

Previously, Mitt Romney, a Mormon, has been actively courting social conservatives and has boasted the endorsements of Paul Weyrich and Bob Jones III.

This endorsement will help the Mayor in the South and the Midwest “Bible Belt.” With his Christian Broadcasting Network, Robertson will broadcast social conservative acceptability for Rudy.

Stay tuned……..

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Former New York Mayor and Presidential candidate and Mrs. Rudy Giuliani in Simi Valley, California, May 3, 2007. Standing next to the Mayor is Anaheim, California Mayor Curt Pringle.

Robert Novak has an excellent piece outlining the broad base of support Rudy Giuliani demonstrates in California.

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.

A solid win for Giuliani on February 5th will put Rudy over the top for the GOP nomination.

Flap continues to wonder when California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses Rudy. Before Christmas or after the first of the year when mail in ballots become available for California voters?

Stay tuned…….

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Texas governor Rick Perry endorses Giuliani

Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday won the endorsement of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, despite their differences on abortion rights.

Perry, an abortion opponent, said his biggest concern had been Giuliani’s support for abortion rights but that he was satisfied Giuliani would appoint judges who view the issue conservatively.

“The one (issue) that I wanted to hear him give me an answer and look me right in my eyes was that issue of who can I expect, what type of individual can I expect on the Supreme Court,” Perry said at a news conference with Giuliani.

“He clearly said … you can look for people like Scalia and Roberts and Alito. Let me tell you, I can live with that,” Perry said, referring to conservative Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts.

Perry said when he buys a pickup truck, he doesn’t rule it out simply because it has one option he doesn’t like.

Giuliani, who is addressing social conservative voters this weekend in Washington, said he wants conservatives to focus on areas where he agrees with them.

“I’m not going to get every vote,” he said. “The idea is going to be that there’s enough we agree about and enough we’re facing — foreign threats and domestic problems — that it may just be if they think about it, that I’m the best candidate.”

“What I really want is a relationship in which we respect each other, even if we disagree,” Giuliani said.

An important endorsement for the Mayor from a social conservative Governor in a very red state.

Perry has drawn the conclusion that the Mayor is not a one issue candidate and nor should the GOP nominee be.

Will California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who agrees with Rudy on abortion be the next endorser?

Stay tuned……

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Mayor Rudy Giuliani endorsed by former California Governor Pete Wilson

AMERICA NEEDS AMERICA’S MAYOR by Pete Wilson

After recent travel to London to meet with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his tenth swing through California, Rudy Giuliani is clearly showing the leadership skills of a President. The reception he has enjoyed here during the campaign has shown that Rudy is not only well-respected and admired around the world, but that he is as popular here in California as any Republican candidate since Ronald Reagan.

And I am one of the many in California and throughout the country who are greatly impressed by him …

The candidate who has the most impressive and relevant experience and record of performance as a public chief executive is clearly Rudy Giuliani. The city he inherited from his predecessor was not only the largest in the nation but one of the most dysfunctional. …

[R]udy took charge of a city crippled by tax-and-spend policies that had created a billion-dollar deficit. The city was in economic crisis and had lost hundreds of thousands of jobs. In addition, New York City saw nearly 2,000 people murdered per year and had more than 11,000 major crimes committed every week

As a former Mayor and Governor myself, I know full well how difficult it is to reduce crime, cut welfare rolls, and revitalize a city. But that is exactly what Rudy did, contradicting the conventional wisdom of all the nay-sayers who said it could never be done.

Rudy immediately controlled spending and cut wasteful programs. He cut the size of the city-funded government bureaucracy by nearly 20%—excluding the number of cops on the street and teachers in the classroom.

By the end of Mayor Giuliani’s second term, New York City was known as the safest large city in America, in sharp contrast to its previous reputation as the crime capital of the country …

The next President of the United States will face what may well prove to be the most severe tests of leadership put to any in our history …

We must nominate a candidate with the appeal to compete and win throughout the country, as Ronald Reagan did in leading his party and the nation to victory …

[Rudy’s] confident message resonates throughout the country. Conservatives are uniting behind him because they know that to win the White House, we must nominate Rudy Giuliani.

The optimism and steely resolve of Rudy Giuliani has equipped him to step into the Oval Office and lead this country on day one. America needs America’s Mayor to lead us as America’s President.

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Read it all over at Jon’s

With California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger fighting with the California Republican Party, Pete Wilson has stepped up as Mr. California Republican. Will this translate into support for the Mayor?

You bet and Governor Wilson is actively fundraising for Rudy as well.

Stay tuned……..

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Flap attended the endorsement announcement yesterday morning at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California. The above is one of six videos that Flap recorded.

Ok, so former Governor Pete Wilson endorses Rudy what does it mean?

Two words:

1. Fundraising

2. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s quasi endorsement

Governor Wilson’s fundraising cabal is still intact after all of these years. In fact, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s chief fundraiser, Marty Wilson, was a top aide (in various positions) for Governor Wilson for at least a decade.

Who aided the Governator in his recall election against Democrat Governor Gray Davis?

Why, the Wilson folks.

Flap thought it was presumptuous the California Republican Party last February gave Rudy the run of the California Republican Convention in Sacramento. If you recall it was at the convention that Rudy announced for the Presidency.

I was told by a source at the time Rudy had the consent of the Governor.

Now, the connection is apparent.

Will Arnold Schwarzenegger endorse Rudy prior to the February 5, 2007 primary election.

Flap says count on it if Rudy maintains his lead in the California and national polls.

Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Governor Pete Wilson in Santa Monica, September 27, 2007

Photo by Flap

Stay tuned……..

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Republican Presidential Rudy Giuliani, right, and his wife Judith Nathan, center, listen as former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson speaks during a news conference in Washington, Monday, March 12, 2007.

Will Rudy lose another key supporter to the Bush Administration?

Perhaps

President Bush is expected to choose a replacement for Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales by the middle of next week, and former solicitor general Theodore B. Olson has emerged as one of the leading contenders for the job, according to sources inside and outside the government who are familiar with White House deliberations.

Other candidates still in the running include former deputy attorney general George J. Terwilliger III and D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Laurence H. Silberman, according to the sources, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the discussions.

Rudy also lost former Congressman Jim Nussle from Iowa to be President Bush’s Budget Director.

So, CRAP………..

By the way, Olson will make a fine AG…….

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Detroit Free Press: Mich. police group endorses Giuliani

The 14,000-member Police Officers Association of Michigan gave its support this afternoon to the presidential campaign of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

“On 9-11, only hours after the planes had hit the buildings, America had found a leader — Rudy Giuliani,” said James Tignanelli, president of POAM. “We’ve heard one candidate talking about walking off a cliff, another quoting old Southern poetry. But that’s not what we’re looking for. We need a president like Rudy Giuliani.”

The endorsement is the second major one Giuliani has received in recent weeks in Michigan. U.S. Rep. Candice Miller, a Harrison Township Republican, endorsed him and is the chairwoman of his campaign in Michigan.

She was scheduled to introduce him tonight at the Macomb County Lincoln Day dinner, expected to draw more than 1,000 Republicans.

The Quote:

“This endorsement means a great deal to me,” said Giuliani. “These people are my heroes.”

Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani stands with members of the Police Officers Association of Michigan in Sterling Heights, Mich., Friday, March 16, 2007. James Tignanelli, president of the 14,000-member Police Officers Association of Michigan, said the group is backing the former New York mayor because of the leadership he showed after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.