GOP Contender Rudy Giuliani

Aired: Monday, May 07, 2007 11-12PM ET

By host Tom Ashbrook:Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, self-styled "America's Mayor" after the attacks of 9/11, will not be out-gunned on the national toughness front.At South Carolina's conservative military academy The Citadel over the weekend, Giuliani said he wants to boost the size of the US Army even more than President Bush.And on that tough talk, Rudy is leading. Leading McCain. Leading Romney. Leading Hillary Clinton in the latest polls on the '08 race for the White House. Can it last?This hour On Point: a look at the mercurial one-time mayor who would be president, Rudy Giuliani.

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Captain Mark

First Quarter Grades for GOP

For the GOP, in recent national opinion polls, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani averages 35 percent support, an A+. Sen. John McCain's 19 percent gets him a B. At 9 percent each, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich are C's. All of the other declared candidates are lower than that. Former Sen. Fred Thompson's poll numbers are running anywhere from 10 percent, a C+, to 17 percent, a solid B. We need a few more polls with Thompson in the mix to get a firmer fix on his score.

In polls limited to Iowa, McCain and Giuliani each get a B+, and Romney earns a C+; in New Hampshire, McCain pulls an A, and Giuliani and Romney both get a B+. Finally, in terms of first-quarter campaign contributions, Romney leads with a B+. Giuliani gets a B, and McCain gets a C+.

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From Rick Koerber's Free Capitalist, Lessons Lost

Watergate’s Forgotten Lessons
by Alan CarubaMay 7, 2007

“The United States was resolved to intervene on behalf of its interests, but it was also resolved to intervene in such a way as not to violate the principle of nonintervention,” wrote Prof. Han J. Morgenthau, examining the lessons of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion that was intended to overthrow Fidel Castro.
“In order to minimize the loss of prestige, the United States jeopardized the success of the intervention…and we lost much prestige as a great nation able to use its power successfully on behalf of its interests…It sought the best of both worlds and got the worst.”
The Bay of Pigs invasion which occurred April 15-19, 1962 failed because then-President John F. Kennedy lost his nerve and denied the air cover needed to protect the invading forces of CIA-trained Cuban freedom fighters. Earlier, the original point of invasion had been moved to the Bay of Pigs, sixty miles away from Havana, giving Castro’s forces tactical advantage. Mostly, though, the intelligence that underwrote the fiasco was just wrong.

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