Giuliani nearly drowned out by rival's supporters
By STEVE VISSER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 12/03/07
It was Rudy Giuliani campaigning for president on the Marietta Square on Sunday afternoon, but anyone listening may well have thought the candidate's name was Ron Paul.
"RON PAUL! RON PAUL! RON PAUL!" — a crowd chanted from Glover Park, effectively drowning out comments from the former New York mayor and occasionally changing the chant to "FREEDOM! FREEDOM! FREEDOM!"
The younger crowd of Paul supporters had stronger, or maybe more enthusiastic, lungs than the middle-aged crowd of Giuliani's gaggle, who responded with a college try — "Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!" — while the Paul cadres tailed the GOP front runner on his walking photo op in downtown Marietta.
The Paul backers, handing out their own candidate's literature, said they were more interested in a president who would truly try to shrink government, not just promise to do it, and who promises outright to bring the troops home from Iraq.
"You're being very inconsiderate," an elderly woman, aghast at the lack of Southern manners, told three young female Paul acolytes.
"You're not helping your candidate with this," a middle-aged man told a 20-something man toting a blue-and-white Paul campaign sign.
"This is a Republican rally," a testy older man snapped, apparently forgetting that Paul, a physician and Libertarian by philosophy, is an elected Republican and running in the GOP primary for president.
His supporters simply answered, "RON PAUL! RON PAUL! RON PAUL!"
"We just came by to say, 'Hey,' " said Rob Miller, a 35-year-old Paul supporter with a mischievous grin, who with his cohorts said their candidate would trounce Giuliani in the New Hampshire primary.
A weary looking Giuliani, in metro Atlanta for a Buckhead fund-raiser, started his tour of Marietta at The Brumby Chair Co. on the west side of the historical square. The store is owned by Otis Brumby Jr., publisher of the Marietta Daily Journal.
Along with Brumby, U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) and state House Speaker Glenn Richardson, who co-chairs Giuiani's campaign in Georgia, gave the candidate a less-boisterous welcome.
Brumby even managed to extract another campaign promise from the New Yorker, one with a distinctly local flavor.
Noting his company has been making its signature rocking chairs since 1875, Brumby said President Jimmy Carter had placed four of them — which are as Southern as a seersucker suit — on the Truman Balcony when he occupied the White House.
The publisher suggested Giuliani should up that number to five if he is elected president.
"We'll do six," Giuliani said.
In an interview afterward, Brumby said he hadn't made up his mind who his newspaper would endorse in the Republican primary.
Isakson, when asked, stayed mum about his favorite, saying only, "I'm for the Republican candidate."
Brumby predicted Giuliani would run the best nationally of the Republican field, but he wasn't sure how he would do in Georgia or Cobb County, where many party faithful have balked at the twice-divorced politician's past of supporting gun control and abortion rights.
Giuliani, the current Republican presidential front-runner, had about two dozen friendly people come to the square to see him — about the same number as those shouting for Paul, who is raising record number of dollars but still running in the back of the GOP pack.
Georgia England, a former New Yorker who now lives in Acworth, said she felt grateful toward Giuliani because of his legendary poise immediately after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
Giuliani marched to the scene, she said; he didn't hide.
"That is the mettle of the man," she said. "I know everybody is talking about his social life, and there are things that I don't agree with, but he has courage."
But a Paul supporter, Craig Hatcher, a 33-year-old Navy veteran who lives in Powder Springs, said of Giuliani, "I wouldn't necessarily say he is a liberal. I'd say he is more of a statist who wants the government to run our lives."
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/cobb/stories/2007/12/02/giuliani_1203.html
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By STEVE VISSER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 12/03/07
It was Rudy Giuliani campaigning for president on the Marietta Square on Sunday afternoon, but anyone listening may well have thought the candidate's name was Ron Paul.
"RON PAUL! RON PAUL! RON PAUL!" — a crowd chanted from Glover Park, effectively drowning out comments from the former New York mayor and occasionally changing the chant to "FREEDOM! FREEDOM! FREEDOM!"
The younger crowd of Paul supporters had stronger, or maybe more enthusiastic, lungs than the middle-aged crowd of Giuliani's gaggle, who responded with a college try — "Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!" — while the Paul cadres tailed the GOP front runner on his walking photo op in downtown Marietta.
The Paul backers, handing out their own candidate's literature, said they were more interested in a president who would truly try to shrink government, not just promise to do it, and who promises outright to bring the troops home from Iraq.
"You're being very inconsiderate," an elderly woman, aghast at the lack of Southern manners, told three young female Paul acolytes.
"You're not helping your candidate with this," a middle-aged man told a 20-something man toting a blue-and-white Paul campaign sign.
"This is a Republican rally," a testy older man snapped, apparently forgetting that Paul, a physician and Libertarian by philosophy, is an elected Republican and running in the GOP primary for president.
His supporters simply answered, "RON PAUL! RON PAUL! RON PAUL!"
"We just came by to say, 'Hey,' " said Rob Miller, a 35-year-old Paul supporter with a mischievous grin, who with his cohorts said their candidate would trounce Giuliani in the New Hampshire primary.
A weary looking Giuliani, in metro Atlanta for a Buckhead fund-raiser, started his tour of Marietta at The Brumby Chair Co. on the west side of the historical square. The store is owned by Otis Brumby Jr., publisher of the Marietta Daily Journal.
Along with Brumby, U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) and state House Speaker Glenn Richardson, who co-chairs Giuiani's campaign in Georgia, gave the candidate a less-boisterous welcome.
Brumby even managed to extract another campaign promise from the New Yorker, one with a distinctly local flavor.
Noting his company has been making its signature rocking chairs since 1875, Brumby said President Jimmy Carter had placed four of them — which are as Southern as a seersucker suit — on the Truman Balcony when he occupied the White House.
The publisher suggested Giuliani should up that number to five if he is elected president.
"We'll do six," Giuliani said.
In an interview afterward, Brumby said he hadn't made up his mind who his newspaper would endorse in the Republican primary.
Isakson, when asked, stayed mum about his favorite, saying only, "I'm for the Republican candidate."
Brumby predicted Giuliani would run the best nationally of the Republican field, but he wasn't sure how he would do in Georgia or Cobb County, where many party faithful have balked at the twice-divorced politician's past of supporting gun control and abortion rights.
Giuliani, the current Republican presidential front-runner, had about two dozen friendly people come to the square to see him — about the same number as those shouting for Paul, who is raising record number of dollars but still running in the back of the GOP pack.
Georgia England, a former New Yorker who now lives in Acworth, said she felt grateful toward Giuliani because of his legendary poise immediately after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
Giuliani marched to the scene, she said; he didn't hide.
"That is the mettle of the man," she said. "I know everybody is talking about his social life, and there are things that I don't agree with, but he has courage."
But a Paul supporter, Craig Hatcher, a 33-year-old Navy veteran who lives in Powder Springs, said of Giuliani, "I wouldn't necessarily say he is a liberal. I'd say he is more of a statist who wants the government to run our lives."
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/cobb/stories/2007/12/02/giuliani_1203.html
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