What will you enjoy most about Rudy's 2008 run?

[KurtNYC]

If you think the MSM had to work hard to sell George Jr. to the American public as just a "normal guy" then selling Rudy will will test their absolute limits. Get ready to earn your money corporate media whores... Here comes cousin-marrying, Marilyn Monroe-dressing, ferret-hating, Rudolf Giuliani!

Which of the following will be the most fun to watch for as long as he lasts:

[patrice]

1. Putting a microscope on building 7 and, hence, 9/11. nm

[Ediacara]

2. "And being much disliked mayor of a city makes you remotely qualified how...?"

[rug]

3. His plan to rid Baghdad of squeegees.

[saltpoint]

4. Brownback is going to rise from the fields and whomp Rudy Giuliani in Iowa.

Giuliani has the stage presence and the celebrity profile and the 9/11 bullhorn bullshit hero thing going.

Big deal.

I think he finishes no higher than 3rd in Iowa, and that's going to make it tougher for him to compete afterward.

Ultimately, I don't think New Hampshire Republicans are Rudy Giuliani Republicans.

[Canuckistanian]

5. To see him taken apart by fellow Republicans

I'm sure they all have their oppo research lined up and ready to go.

It'll probably be something like "a rich, elitist north-easterner and his money-grubbing wife" type.

That would do fine.

[Berry Cool]

6. You know, I really don't care that Rudy was ever married to a second cousin.

To me, it's really not that big a deal, and I fail to see why it is to so many other people.

There are so many other far more worthy and substantial reasons to dislike him. Why waste energy on that one?

[waiting for hope]

8. Exactly - his latest "speech" is reason

enough for me. This country has had enough of fear....and I am angry and tired of my party being called the one "to be on the defensive" and the vote for a Dem is a vote for Death call - he's a lunatic, pure and simple, and the sooner the rest of this country realizes this, the better.

[KurtNYC]

11. I think it is indicative of a larger liability for Rudy: He doesn't believe

that the rules apply to him.

He seems to embody what Twain remarked on in many politicians when Twain said:

Nothin' so need reformin' as other people's habits.

[Cha]

13. And then there's Gary Hart's Open letter

to rudy..

"Dear Mayor Giuliani:

Since you have based your presidential campaign almost exclusively on your reaction to terrorist attacks on New York City, and since you have recently accused Democrats of being on the defense against terrorism and therefore guilty of inviting more casualties, I have one question for you: Where were you on terrorism between January 31, 2001, and September 11th?

The first date was when the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century issued its final report warning, as did its previous reports, of the danger of terrorist attacks on America. The George W. Bush administration did nothing about these warnings and we lost 3,000 American lives. What did you do during those critical eight months? Where were you? Were you on the defensive, or were you even paying attention?

Before you qualify to criticize Democrats, Mr. Giuliani, you must account for your preparation of your city for these clearly predicted attacks. Tell us, please, what steps you took to make your city safer.

Until you do, then I strongly suggest you should keep your mouth shut about Democrats and terrorism.

You have not qualified to criticize others, let alone be president of the United States.

Gary Hart
(co-chair, U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century)

P.S. You might ask these same questions of George W. Bush while you are trying to find a better reason to run for president.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3240395

[Bucky]

7. It's the coming reckoning of Rudy with the reality of the GOP

Rudy is riding high and Republican moderates are licking their lips at the prospect of finally having one of their own in the White House. They are about to find out just what a small minority they are in their party. As they watch the fundies tear into Giuliani like Amazon piranas on a little lost cow, a lot of them are going to quietly turn Blue with anger. Moderate Republicans have only themselves to blame, of course--they've been dancing with that devil just to get their tax cuts for 27 years now. I don't think they get to complain now when his big cloven hooves stomp onto their little dainty toes.

[IDemo]

9. Watching his eye makeup run on election night when the tears begin to flow

[AlCzervik]

10. his fall.

[Cha]

12. Seeing the Firefighters of New YOrk City

tell the truth about rudy and why he's not the man he's trying to push on the country..fucking arrogrant toadstool.


"Giuliani Faces Questions About Sept. 11"

"If Rudolph Giuliani was running on anything but 9/11, I would not speak out," said Sally Regenhard, whose firefighter son was among the 343 FDNY members killed in the terrorist attack. "If he ran on cleaning up Times Square, getting rid of squeegee men, lowering crime _ that's indisputable.

"But when he runs on 9/11, I want the American people to know he was part of the problem."

Such comments contradict Giuliani's post-Sept. 11 profile as a hero and symbol of the city's resilience _ the steadfast leader who calmed the nerves of a rattled nation. But as the presidential campaign intensifies, criticisms of his 2001 performance are resurfacing.

Giuliani, the leader in polls of Republican voters for his party's nomination, has been faulted on two major issues:

_ His administration's failure to provide the World Trade Center's first responders with adequate radios, a long-standing complaint from relatives of the firefighters killed when the twin towers collapsed. The Sept. 11 Commission noted the firefighters at the World Trade Center were using the same ineffective radios employed by the first responders to the 1993 terrorist attack on the trade center.

Regenhard, at a 2004 commission hearing in Manhattan, screamed at Giuliani, "My son was murdered because of your incompetence!" The hearing was a perfect example of the 9/11 duality: Commission members universally praised Giuliani at the same event.

_ A November 2001 decision to step up removal of the massive rubble pile at ground zero.."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/30/AR2007033000190_pf.html

What? ghouliani thought the corporatemedia is just going to cover this up? rudy should have just retired on his image but that's gonna be shot to hell and maybe no one will want to pay him the big bucks to drone on and on what a guy he is..asshole.

[newyawker99]

14. When he loses.

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[blm]

15. The corpmedia will protect Rudy as much as needed. Just as they did Bush.

NBC will do the most to protect Rudy, and that includes Lorne Michaels at SNL.