Giuliani stepped in it today--attacking both Dems and Michael Moore. Guess he hasn't seen SICKO-

[flpoljunkie]

If he had, he would see the volunteer rescue workers, suffering from the effects of the 9/11 cleanup, who have been abandoned by New York politicians--from the governor on down. These rescue workers are the ones who traveled with Michael Moore, first to Guantanmo Bay and then on to the Cuban mainland where they received medical care from a Cuban hospital and Cuban doctors.

They were overcome with emotion and gratitude for finally receiving this care. It was one of the most, if not the most, poignant moment of the documentary.

Giuliani just doesn't get it. These 9/11 rescue workers were unable to receive care in their own country, and I can't wait for our Democratic candidates to rip him a new one! I think Michael Moore might have a response, as well.

From NBC's First Read:

From NBC's Carrie Dann and Mark Murray

If the Giuliani campaign's conference call earlier today wasn't a hint that the former New York mayor was on the attack against the Democrats' health-care plans, this certainly is... In New Hampshire today, Giuliani was treating supporters to a quick preview of the big health-care policy rollout he'll give tomorrow in Rochester. And from the sounds of it, he'll be casting documentary filmmaker Michael Moore in a starring role as his number one villain.

In the recent documentary "Sicko," Giuliani said at one campaign stop, Moore "proclaims, in essence, kind of what the theory of the Democrats is -- that medicine in Cuba is better than medicine in the United States." To much chuckling, he asked the crowd, "Would anybody here like to put up their hands to go to Cuba for medical treatment? No! It'd be like getting sentenced!"

At a later stop in Moultonsboro, NH, Giuliani drew even more specific parallels between Moore and his Democratic rivals -- a tactic that both he and Mitt Romney are fond of employing. "Only Michael Moore, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards, I guess, would want to go to Cuba for health care," he said. Giuliani went on to accuse Democrats of "setting traps" for the American people by promising universal health care (administered by what he calls a "nanny state") rather than the market-based system supported by most Republicans.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/07/30/297446.aspx

[CanonRay]

1. Giuliani knows his audience, which won't listen to either Michael Moore or the Democrats.

They haven't opened their minds in 30 years, why now?

[frogcycle]

4. as long as it stays at under about 40% of voters

no worries - let 'em stew

When the real campaign gets cranking, the dem party is going to have to do some real serious educating of the populace.

I mean full frontal assault. Sound bite for sound bite won't cut it. They use nastier sound bites.

We will need some really creative people - like Moore, and whoever did Edwards hair video, etc, to crank out stuff like mad.

The "rapid response" concept from previous elections has to be on steroids.

It has to be the campaigning version of carpet bombing AND "shock and awe."

And, to be blunt, it has to be no-punches pulled. When one of them utters something like that it needs to be countered with stuff like "what planet is this clown from, anyway? Did he not SEE the movie?"

We need our own Pixar cranking out jibjab bits to use as cluster bombs. A new one every other day.
offer RSS streams of the latest. Do live streaming like the Live Earth - with every good speech on our side and every bad one from theirs, possible with thought balloons...

[tanyev]

2. Keep yappin, Rudy.

There's a lot of desperate people who voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004 that would gladly accept inexpensive health care anywhere they could get it.

[rodeodance]

3. even if he did see it, he would not 'hear' or 'see' it.

[tech3149]

5. One thing I'd bet on is that Rudy/Judy will never admit harm to rescue workers

That would put him in the crosshairs as a "person of interest" for not doing more to protect them. Christi Whitman shot herself in the foot, I think Rudy/Judy is aiming a bit higher.

[mbee]

6. This guy is an ignorant idiot! I viewed Road to the

White House on C-Span this weekend and he was approached at one of his stops by a lovely young woman asking him if he would fund some international program she was interested in and he was extremely rude to her. I think she was really shocked at his response. He is a creep!

[Jensen]

7. Any one that would vote for this A** Wipe must be nuts!

For the 2004 Repug convention when he stated that while he was watching people jumping of the WTC he grab his assistant arm and "Thank God GWB was pResident" I wanted to :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:
No decent human being could watch this horror and even think of whom is in the White House!