Rudy's Freefall: "It was like he was running for president of Staten Island.”

[BurtWorm]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/us/politics/30giuliani.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1201669767-alx2q7gVPLNGBg1WV+r4eg


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In interviews Tuesday, even before he gave a concession speech in which he spoke of his campaign in the past tense, Mr. Giuliani described his strategic mistakes, suggesting that his opponents had built up too much momentum in earlier primaries. But this is a rhetorical sleight of hand; he in fact competed hard in New Hampshire, to remarkably poor effect.

Perhaps a simpler dynamic was at work: The more that Republican voters saw of him, the less they wanted to vote for him.

Mr. Giuliani was a temple-throbbing Italian-American New Yorker who ruled a cacophonous city seen as the very definition of liberalism. He was somewhat liberal on social issues — notably immigration and abortion — where Republican candidates are invariably conservative. And he possessed a complicated family life: he has been thrice-married and has two adult children who rarely speak to him. At the beginning of his campaign last spring, he sat for a celebrity photo shoot smooching with his third wife, who snuggled in his lap.

“It bordered on science fiction to think that someone as liberal on as many issues as Rudy Giuliani could become the Republican nominee,” said Nelson Warfield, a Republican consultant who has been a longtime critic of the former mayor. “Rudy didn’t even care enough about conservatives to lie to us. The problem wasn’t the calendar; it was the candidate.”

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“His numbers were built on name recognition and celebrity,” this adviser said. “He had so many of his old friends around him, sometimes it was like he was running for president of Staten Island.”

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[Swamp Rat]

1. D'oh!

:D

[BurtWorm]

2. I luvs it!

:applause:

Another Swamp Rat masterpiece!

[Swamp Rat]

5. Way'at BurtWorm!

:hi:

[sandnsea]

6. Please stop that

That is horribly offensive to a large number of DUers.

[BurtWorm]

7. I think it's pretty.

But maybe that's just me. ;)

[Swamp Rat]

13. LOL!.... BOO!

:rofl:

[sandnsea]

14. That's not the same

and you know it. I don't know why you think it's funny being a jerk to people.

[Swamp Rat]

15. BWAHAHAHA!!!

[BurtWorm]

16. Stop that!

You're cracking me up!

:rofl:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. America's Merde

[Eurobabe]

4. "Perhaps he was living an illusion all along."

BWAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHA

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

The first line had me at hello.

[Bluebear]

11. Me too!!

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. Correction: Southern Staten island

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Yeah, I had the standard boilerplate response to anyone with "Rudy's gonna be teh front runner"

nonsense, for the past 2 years now..

namely-
"The GOP will NEVER nominate someone pro-choice for Preznit. Never. NEVER. NEVER NEVER AND FUCKING NEVER."

The GOP base doesn't even think BIRTH CONTROL should be legal.

Furthermore, they will never nominate someone even remotely "friendly" to equal rights for gays- the GOP base thinks gays should be "cured" or quarantined on an island somewhere, if not given some fucked up capital punishment, like stoning, out of Leviticus.

People (and the punditry) underestimate the extent to which the flat-Earth fundy knuckledraggers control the GOP.

[BurtWorm]

10. The punditry always mistakes its own "wisdom" for the people's.

:eyes:

[alfredo]

12. Rudy was their great white hope. Ha!

http://content.cartoonbox.slate.com/?feature=469e1d46f6f8cc0c98314a57e820edb8