Letters to the Editor
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Scoop and Dump will be exposed as the media creation he is
When he loses every primary.
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Memory
Excellent. Doesn't anybody remember his term as NYC mayor before 9/11/2001? No. We don't remember anything. I think one of the reasons for our decreasing ability to think and remember is that there is too much noise/media/information/infotainment etc. If Rudy is the nominee and it's time to vote, we won't remember Iraq and the Bush administration, either.
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And if they want to nail ghouls
They should bring up the recent indictment of Bernard Kerik, Ghoul's police commissioner, personal friend, and the man Ghoul's picked as the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. He was indicted for conspiracy, fraud, and making false statment under oath.
Ghouls like to brag about all this wisdom he has from his executive experience. It translates into a meme of "Giuliani has good judgement. Just look at 9/11"
His opponents want to hammer him, and they are already bringing this issue up. How can the people trust Ghoul's judgement, on sheer principle, if the man he recommended for the head of homeland security is even being indicted for lying to the White House, fraud, and conspiracy.
McCain has already started taking shots at the Kerik situation:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/11/09/post_192.html?hpid=topnews
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@jmundstuk
Doesn't anybody remember his term as NYC mayor before 9/11/2001? No. We don't remember anything.
The other Republican candidates are going to remind everyone, using Kerik as an example.
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My favorite GG sentence of all time
His views on foreign policy are far more radical and bellicose even than Dick Cheney's, and his view of presidential powers makes George Bush look like Thomas Jefferson.
Ok maybe not all time but it was a good one.
Part of what your observing is another symptom of the cliquishness of the beltway culture. The Washington Establishment doesn't share the xenophobia of the Republican base so they aren't likely to be bothered by a tolerant attitude toward gays or abortion. Those help make Rudy one of them.
The other thing that his candidacy reveals however is the dark underside of the Relgious Right. It is clear that all the gay-bashing and hand-wringing over single-motherhood and abortion will go completely out the window when they have an opportunity to vote a tough-guy into office.
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You ALMOST answered your own question
He's just a warmonger with authoritarian impulses and liberal positions on social issues.
You forget the adjective "soulless" before warmonger.
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Sorry, can't take Greenwald seriously
... after his preposterous series defending the misogynistic theocrat Ron Paul.
Salon needs to hire somebody else.
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Just a note to say
how sorry I am that Glenn self-immolated on the Ron Paul bonfire, but as a socially retarded racist misogynist homophobic moron with delusions of grandeur I sure am enjoying Chris Sinnard's new blog here on Salon.
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Then you are going to be disappointed
how sorry I am that Glenn self-immolated on the Ron Paul bonfire, but as a socially retarded racist misogynist homophobic moron with delusions of grandeur I sure am enjoying Chris Sinnard's new blog here on Salon.
I comment on a handful of articles and it is my blog now? I'm flattered. I didn't know you had given it to me. Thanks, Darkie, but I know that it is Glenn's blog, not nobody Chris Sinnard' blog, and my presence doesn't even register as a mousefart. I am just glad that he is writing articles about RP.
Don't cry tiger, chin up. You'll have your ball back soon enough.
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The new definition of "moderate"
Apparently, being a "moderate" now means tenancy in a great number of radical, extreme positions, but not in every conceivable radical, extreme position.
This may be a variant of the "Englishman's Fallacy" wherein our putative Englishman comes across two people who disagree vociferously about the sum of two plus two. One person vehemently argues that the correct answer is four while other is just as adamant that the answer is six. The Englishman, finding such strong disagreement upsetting, declares that both parties to the argument are wrong and that sensible, moderate position is obviously that two and two equal five.
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I would say
I'm "moderately" familiar with the views of Mr. Giuliani and he scares the hell out of me. The fact that he's leading the Republicans in their primary race scares me a whole lot more.
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Sorry, can't take Jason G. seriously
I call fake. This letter is not genuine. It is fake.
Fake fake fake fake fake fake fake.
Nobody actually thinks like this.
Fake.
Chris Sinnard needs to hire somebody else.
Better trolls please.
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Abortion rights is hardly of minor import to women
A peacenik who would imperil a woman's right to choose is no moderate either.
Glenn you said: Outside of judicial appointments, Presidents actually have very little impact on issues such as gay rights, abortion and gun control.
Were Ron Paul to become president what sort of judicial appoints to you think that he would make that would affect those very social issues, gay rights and abortion, that you mention?
I am not here to defend Giuliani. Frankly, he scares the hell out me. However, I don't see how you can have it both ways. It will only take five justices to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Yet you just spent time defending Ron Paul from attacks of craziness. Never once did you define crazy. How do we know what you mean by crazy if you don't define the term? Is there even such a thing in your lexicon as politically crazy? Is a man who wants to control a woman's right to make choices about her own body any less crazy than a man who wants to support a bizarrely unsupportable war? Neither are truly possible and both will cause tragedy.
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Giuliani in moderation
After the beltway's whipping of Gore, and now their jumping on the Ghoul's "moderate" bandwagon, I truly believe that investigations need to begin on the Media's undue sway in elections.
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You don't have to convine me
I lived under Dr. 9-11's regime in NYC the first time around. I feel lucky to have escaped the re-education centers.
What I find humurous is the current conventional punditry wisdom that puts Giuliani cleaning up in California. Law n order is one thing around here, but you show up with a millenelist psycho like Robertson on your arm, you're certainly going to alienate alot of the kind of people who voted for Scwharzenegger. I just really think his policy is going to backfire. His past; Keric, his 9-11 mismanagement, the Iraq Study Comm drop-out, the weasel monologue-- will come back to haunt him. Not to mention his ghost of x-mas present, Robertson.
Oh wait, that's right, this is America. Never mind. I'm sure he'll do fine.