"Fox & Friends" co-host Gretchen Carlson: White House fears Giuliani bid in 2012

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Fox: White House fears Giuliani bid in 2012

By David Edwards and Daniel Tencer

Published: September 21, 2009
Updated 26 minutes ago

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/21/giuliani-bid-in-2012/



The hosts of Fox News’ Fox & Friends have offered up a theory as to why the White House got personally involved in the New York governor’s race and asked Gov. David Paterson not to run again: They believe he would be vulnerable to a challenge by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and a gubernatorial win by Giuliani would set the Republican up for a White House challenge in 2012.

“When you put the name Rudy Giuliani in the mix, you wonder if that’s exactly what they’re worried about,” co-host Gretchen Carlson said. “Because if Giuliani were to run he probably would win a this point, and then that would launch potentially another presidential bid by Rudy Giuliani.”

The New York Times reported Sunday that the White House had asked Paterson, through an intermediary, not to run for re-election. Paterson, who became governor of New York last year after then-Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned in a sex scandal, recently garnered a 21-percent approval rating from New Yorkers.

The same poll showed that, in a theoretical match-up, Giuliani would take 60 percent of the vote to Paterson’s 34 percent. However, the poll also shows that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, would beat Giuliani 53 percent to 43 percent. Sixty-seven percent of respondents wanted Cuomo to run, compared to 58 percent for Giuliani.

[HughBeaumont]

1. I'm . . . stunned.

Rudy withdrew from his own damned PRIMARY.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. And now he's the GOP's secret weapon! Go figure!

:rofl:

Fox & Friends, offering hope to the hopeless.

:eyes:

[Mrs. Overall]

3. Well, America does love a white, buxom blonde in a dress--

I think he's got a chance.

[trumad]

4. You know Fox has human factories where they breed their hosts...

This one was hatched last week.

[gratuitous]

5. Uhhhhh, o-ka-y-y-y-y

This will come as a complete shock, I know, to anyone not completely inside the New York media bubble, but Rudy Giuliani isn't all that popular in the United States.

[Zen Democrat]

6. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

[no_hypocrisy]

7. New York is not going to elect Giuliani.

New York would not elect ANY candidate governor if his hunger and ambition was so obviously visible that it would be understood that s/he would not stay the entire term.

The governor of New York State has to be based in Albany. Rudy Giuliani living and working in Albany (let alone his wife, Judith Nathan)? I don't think so . . . And the New York State Senate and Assembly won't be muscled by Giuliani threatening them. Rudy doesn't do compromise. He does control.

[cbdo2007]

20. America won't elect him either. Even the Repubes think he's immoral and greedy - that's says a lot!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. Yeah, I'm sure Gretchen.

Just like we all feared him in 2008 when he lasted all of what? Three primaries?

[TwilightGardener]

9. Wha? Rudy had to be the biggest election flame-out in history...

besides the fearsome Fred Thompson, anyway...:rofl:

[Arugula Latte]

10. We all remember the stunning juggernaut that was the Giuliani campaign

Well, it would have been a stunning juggernaut, if it had been able to get off the ground ...

:rofl:

[Arkana]

13. More like a hacking, wheezing juggernaut with a bad case of Bell's palsy.

[DrDan]

11. throw Fred Thompson on the ticket with Rudy . . . . that would really get the D's quaking. . . .

[chat_noir]

12. Biden responds to Carlson

[vinylsolution]

14. Giuliani flunked the Florida primary....

.... but now he's Presidential material?

Only on Planet FOX.

:rofl:

[marmar]

15. Naturally......after his incredible run in 2008.

:dunce:


Fox News: The Vox Idioti

[emulatorloo]

16. When has this Delusional Ex-Miss America been right about anything? n/t

[Hansel]

17. Gretchen Carlson was a beauty contestant from Anoka MN

which is the city next to the one I live in. Most of Anoka is in Michelle Bachman's district. Now you know what kind of people vote for her.

[WeDidIt]

18. Running 9ui11ani in 2012 would be akin to Stevenson running on the success of Pearl Harbor in '52

It's just so ridiculous.

[saltpoint]

19. An exciting boutique theory from a pseudo-political analyst.

Rudy had the 911 backdrop. He had the 911 bullhorn. He had the pugnacious law enforcement chip on his shoulders. He had the media in his pocket.

And he got his butt kicked by a pack of yahoos like John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee.

I think Ms. Carlson is mistaken.

[Nikki Stone1]

21. The base won't turn out for Giuliani: he's pro-choice, pro gay, and too smart for them

Besides that, he's one of them Southern Italians and might be mafioso! Oh nooos!!