Letters to the Editor
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Oh how they keep forgetting the tape archives
When are they ever going to learn? Hopefully not soon. This is too much fun.
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A Fusion Candidacy
Look, Republicans either know Giuliani has been a liberal, RINO Republican and won't vote for him because of it, or they know and they don't care because they think of him as their 9/11 Protector-Hero.
What I find funny in the Charlie Rose interview is that Rudy says he "ran a fusion candidacy." I wonder if Romney will adopt that terminology, too. What sort of fusion is that, Rudy? One of fact and fiction? One of flip and flop? One of "I'll say anything to get elected" and "I'll say anything to get elected?"
Or is it like "Fusion Cuisine?" Gawd, I hate that. Pretentious food in tiny servings on massive plates.
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History Rarely an Issue
People who who care enough to vote in the primary will mostly be aware of Giuliani's history. If he should actually win the nomination, however, he will be able to reinevent himself however he pleases as long as the media does not make it their mission to harp on some particuliar point. the average American is very forgetful. We continue to elect individuals who have criminal backgrounds, who have been previously pushed out of other offices or left with little to no popularity remaining/ We also tend to believe whatever a politician says even if it is in complete opposition to everything they have done previously.
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as John Stewart pointed out....
it's the hair talking.
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It's remarkable
how politically tone-deaf Giuliani is. When the Republican Party was in it's ascendancy he wasn't a Republican. Now that it's about to auger into the ground he jumps on board.
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blogs
Where are my Blogs? Wy have you stopped providing the blog contacts?
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Depends what "not really" really is
Maybe Rudy meant he wasn't a "republican" -- like small "r," as in supporting a republican form of government. In that way, he could be entirely within the fold of the Republican Party, which has long since abandoned any pretense of supporting actual republican government, in favor of a chimerical neofascist, theocratic form of government that's typically mislabeled as "conservative" by this country's media. So, Il Douche is a good Republican, without being a good republican.
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The really interesting aspect of this remains
Giuliani still leads in the polls. We all recall the little flip-flop charms the GOP Kool-Aid swillers dangled from necks during the 2004 Republican Convention. Perhaps it's time to dust them off since they seem to apply to a number of GOP candidates in '08. But the chimera-like campaigns of Romney and Giuliani seem to be working. Republicans are most interested in winning than in the truth. That's how little kids asking for health insurance get trashed by Right wingnuts.
Republicans disdain fact. Only winning matters
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really, what he said in this clip was fine!
come on everybody!
what i heard him say was that "i'm not a republican mayor, i'm the mayor of new york city." meaning, that he's not just the mayor for republican new yorkers, he's the mayor for everybody in the city. and, while i didn't think so at the time, he was probably correct to say so---especially compared to what we see in the bush administration, which really does serve only "republican" americans.
the point isn't his party affiliation, or whether he's finessing to try to get elected. the point is his scary, demented world-view that makes it absolutely essential that he not inherit the "strong executive" built in the last eight years by cheney and company.