Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor, is in New Hampshire today and stressed “vision and performance.”
“Leadership is about vision and performance,” Giuliani told state GOP activists. Voters, he said, should hold each candidate to that standard when deciding where to throw their support. “Who has the vision and who can perform? Because you need both.”
“You can ultimately judge whatever I promise you and whatever vision that I have by the things that I’ve done,” Giuliani said.
Giuliani also tried to envoke former President Ronald Reagan at an event in New Hampshire last night.
Giuliani told a crowd in a GOP stronghold in northern New Hampshire that politicians who take polls to dictate what they say are not “leaders. They’re actors.”
“Ronald Reagan didn’t have [his] views because they were popular,” Giuliani said in the state where Republicans tend to lean conservative on social issues.
He added that people will disagree, but it’s important to know where a leader stands. He’ll need to convince conservative voters to embrace that theme to get them to overlook his pro-choice, pro-gay-rights stands.
The New York Post continued:
A major rap on the Democratic front-runner, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, has been that she’s poll-tested, although Giuliani insisted later he wasn’t talking about anyone specifically.
Then again, he could be referring to Senator John McCain’s “Build My National Agenda Because I Want to Pander to You” survey.
Just a thought.
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