Salon.com: A noun, a verb, and 9/11″.... (WARNING UGLY GIULIANI PHOTO AT START)

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http://www.salon.com/2015/05/28/a_noun_a_verb_and_911_rudy_giulianis_cynical_september_11_strategy_rears_its_head/
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The most memorable laugh line from the 2007-2008 presidential debates came from then-Sen. Joe Biden, discussing the presidential campaign of Rudy Giuliani: “I mean, think about it! Rudy Giuliani. There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence — a noun, a verb, and 9/11. There’s nothing else! There’s nothing else!”

This wasn’t much of an exaggeration. The former mayor of New York City, who was considered a loose frontrunner for the nomination through much of 2007, tried to link just about everything to his experience coordinating first responders on September 11, 2001. He centered his campaign strategy on skipping most of the early states and putting all his resources into Florida. As the Florida primary neared in January 2008 and Giuliani was still trailing, he released an ad comparing Floridians’ experience with hurricanes to his experience on 9/11. Get it? They’re both disasters. Rudy Giuliani lost Florida and quit the race.

It’s not easy being a New York-area Republican in a national Republican race. As TPM’s Josh Marshall recently wrote, national Republicans might generally appreciate the sort of blunt, tri-state pugnacity that snarling pitbulls like Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani bring to the arena. But ultimately they’re RINOs who’ve occupied various heretical positions, typically on social issues, in order to win in blue electorates. They’re culturally distinct from the prevailing strand of rural, South-centric Republicanism. Rudy Giuliani was pro-choice and a supporter of gay rights, something that was ten times more controversial in 2007-2008 Republican politics than it is today. He tried to shore up those weaknesses by talking about 9/11 all the time. It wasn’t enough.
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I live in NYC; YES I remember 9/11; To have the latest GOP wanna-be president buffoon (Pataki as of this date) STILL exploiting 9/11 for votes from the guns & bible crowd really really REALLY irks me.

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1. Good God you're not kidding about the photo

I'm expecting to see two fingers coming out of his mouth from the demonic thing inside of him like that little girl had in the mirror scene in the movie The Possession.

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2. Yeah it's worse than usual -

even a "nice" picture of him is nasty. There were a few nicknames used for him here while he was mayor - Ghouliani, Crueliani, and Generalissimo.