The news has been bad for Rudy Giuliani lately, as he faces the prospect of third-place finishes in both Iowa and New Hampshire even while influential party leaders denounce him as bad for the GOP. And it keeps getting worse:
Rudolph W. Giuliani’s image as 9/11 mayor took a double hit Monday as he lost a key endorsement from the Sept. 11 commission chair to a rival, and New York firefighters and families of victims of the terrorist attacks took their campaign against him to New Hampshire.
Tom Kean, chair of the 9/11 Commission — and a Republican for Rudy’s neighboring state of New Jersey — kicked another hole in the 9iu11iani story yesterday, endorsing John McCain for president. “To the extent that we’ve been less vulnerable to attacks that we suffered on 9/11, it’s in a large part due to the extraordinary leadership of John McCain,” said Kean.
The idea that McCain has singlehandedly kept America safe for the last six years is almost as laughable as the notion that Rudy Giuliani is in some way qualified to be commander in chief because he happened to be around during the World Trade Center attack, but if Rudy can’t lock up the 9/11 commissioner — who is, again, from New Jersey — it just doesn’t look good at all.
Adding to his woes, the firefighters who have been going after Rudy for some time now, over what they consider to be his failures before, on and after 9/11, are thinking about forming a 527. They held a town hall yesterday in New Hampshire, reporting that voters were “shocked” by what they had to say.
In the hypothetical Giuliani vs. Clinton matchup, we keep hearing about Hillary’s high negatives and Rudy’s high positives. What we hear much less often — and this is not meant as an endorsement of Hillary — is that her numbers really have nowhere to go but up. And Rudy’s, as we’re learning, have nowhere to go but down.
2 Responses to “Rudy’s Lousy Holidays”
tom kean jr has endorsed mayor giuliani. the 9/11 commission is full of washington insiders and oldies, no surprise mccain would have the inside tract with that crowd.
the truth is clinton has topped out, she has 100% name ID and half the country has firmly stated they will NEVER vote for her. it is rudy who has no limits or boundries. despite an unprecedented attempts by the MSM, the DMC, and the partisan leadership of the IAFF, rudy STILL leads the gop and still runs neck and neck with hillary, while beating both obama and edwards.
think about it, rudy is already dealing with and beating his 527 swiftboating, clinton hasn’t been touched yet. republicans are sitting back and waiting before laying into her, while rudy will have outlasted and survived the smear attempts on him. on top of it all is the fact that rudy is superior to hillary in every way, from intellect to leadership ability to results in government.
and your description of rudy being unqualified for ’standing around on 9/11′ is a joke. so you mean to tell me hillary is qualified because she stood around while her husband did a sub-par job governing? what exactly in her resumer grants her greater experience at being chief executive of the united states? please elaborate.
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I guess Rudy’s free ride from 911 is over. The voters are starting to become obervant and look beyond the name. I predict that it will be a rough holiday season for Rudy.
Left by MJN
November 20, 2007 at 4:39pm