Loading ...You knew that I couldn’t stay away from trashing Rudy Giuliani, even though he lost the race to be our 911th president.
It appears that Rudy runs a business as terribly as he ran his presidential campaign. The New York Post is reporting that Giuliani and Partners is laying off at least 5 employees.
Hmmm. I wonder what caused the firm to have to issue the layoffs. 9/11? The New York Times?
(Cross posted at The November Blog)
At least according to the website of the Washington Speakers Bureau he is.
Apparently, triumphant Rudy, who defeated 9/11 again during this past campaign, is going on a speaking tour to talk about how great of a leader he is.
According to the Speakers Bureau’s bio of Rudy, which, I’m betting $911 was written by Rudy himself: “Rudy Giuliani…helped lead New York - and the U.S. - out of the devastation that followed the attacks on 9-11,” because, of course, 9/11 turned Rudy into the President of the United States–er President of 9/11.
And! And! And! Oooh! Oooh! Rudy will be “providing audiences with unparalleled insights and compelling anecdotes to help them overcome unforeseen or unprecedented challenges - and put them back on the path towards success.” He will teach you how you too can defeat your own 9/11’s!
And also, “Perhaps no person currently on the world stage better embodies the words ‘visionary’ and ‘grace under pressure’ than Rudy Giuliani.” After all Rudy is like, one of the most famous people in the world, like, ever.
And “As a candidate for president, he galvanized the national debate,” which is why of course he’s still in the race for president to this day! He’s that galvanizing.
Oh, and Rudy will show ” leaders at all levels how to transform their corporate and organizational cultures—for bottom-line success and results,” by using his own financially solvent presidential campaign as a prime example.
Finally, this paragraph is worth quoting in full:
Hero and Inspiration: As someone who found himself on the frontlines of the War on Terror, Giuliani understands the grave personal price already paid to maintain freedom. Never one to shy away from a battle —at great personal risk, Giuliani almost single-handedly took on organized crime in New York—he reminds audiences that to protect freedom, eternal vigilance is necessary. His presentations become events of international repute and scope where large, enthusiastic crowds are the norm.
Rudy Giuliani will never, ever shy away from a battle, which is why he is still running for president. And his slide shows and Powerpoint presentations can make once-paralyzed old men miraculously walk again!
Rudy Giuliani seems to believe that he really didn’t need to be president, because the office was in fact beneath him. President of the United States is too small-time for Rudy. He’s too busy crushing mountains with his bare hands.
So there you have it, Rudy Giuliani is “one of the world’s most respected leaders,” right behind Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Fred Thompson.
(Cross Posted at The November Blog)
These guys never seem to get it do they?
Redstate.com Editor Erick Erickson tells his audience that they must read a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal which makes the case that the Republicans lost the election in 2006 because of out- of-control spending, and argues that they will lose the 2008 election as well if they don’t work towards “re-establishing the GOP as a party of limited government and economic freedom,” and pick a fiscally conservative running-mate for McCain.
It’s no secret that John McCain believes that his party lost the 2006 mid-terms because of spending (so does former candidate and still fascist Rudy Giuliani), and with a clueless doofus like him at the top of the ticket, Democrats should take advantage of the opportunity to continue to highlight how out of touch with the country the Republican party is.
After all, the Republicans lost the 2006 elections because of Bush’s unpopularity, the war in Iraq, and corruption. And Bush will still be president come this November (and he seems eager to campaign for McCain, which of course could likely doom the Senator’s candidacy), the war will still be going terribly, and a new crop of scandals is threatening to further sully the Republican party’s reputation.
You guys just keep running on the idea that the country hates you because of over-spending. I dare you.
(Cross posted at The November Blog)
I’m watching this speech with Rudy Giuliani endorsing John McCain, and afterwards McCain gets up there and mentions 9/11 three times in his 5-minute speech.
It’s like a disease that’s catching.
p.s. The end of the prospect of Rudy Giuliani in federal government should bring howls of joy across the nation and maybe even the world. The man was a psychotic with post-traumatic stress disorder, and an authoritarian narcissist who would have been the worst possible outcome for any logical human being. The idea that he would be in any kind of McCain veepstakes is beyond crazy. Um, what great campaigning skills does he bring to the table? Would he compel a strategy of sitting out the general election and waiting for a December run-off?
It’s about a 99% bet that the winner of the Republican nomination will be announced tonight in the Sunshine State. Even St. Rudy of the 9/11 admits this. Sure, the Super Duper Tuesday votes won’t yield a clean sweep; Mike Huckabee is trotting out a Southern strategy that has him leading in Tennessee. But given that No Republican candidate is on the air with ads in any Super Tuesday state, the free media boost out of Florida for Mitt Romney or John McCain will be extremely important, especially for McCain, who soaks up the media love like no other candidate. That’s why it’s been so acrimonious; both sides know that Florida is really the end of the road for this race. So Romney and McCain lob charges of “You’re the liberal! No, you’re the liberal!” at each other, trying to appeal to conservatives in this closed primary.
Mr. Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, began attacking at dawn, accusing Mr. McCain of allying himself with liberal Democrats in the Senate and betraying conservative principles on legislation involving immigration, the environment and campaign finance.
“If you want that kind of a liberal Democratic course as president, then you can vote for him,” Mr. Romney said at a Texaco gas station in West Palm Beach at 6:30 a.m. “But those three pieces of legislation, those aren’t conservative. Those aren’t Republican.”Mr. McCain volleyed back by describing Mr. Romney as a serial flip-flopper who had taken multiple positions on a variety of issues, including gay rights, global warming and immigration. “People, just look at his record as governor,” Mr. McCain said at a shipyard in Jacksonville. “He has been entirely consistent. He has consistently taken two sides of every major issue, sometimes more than two.”
Josh Marshall comments on how close the polls have been, and the winner is really up in the air. But with what’s on the line being so clear, Florida voters aren’t likely to throw away their vote. Expect moderates to move to McCain, and conservatives to line up with Romney, and the result will reveal itself in which faction has those numbers.
UPDATE: I don’t know how else you can read this robocall:
“Mitt Romney thinks he can fool us. He supported abortion on demand, even allowed a law mandating taxpayer-funding for abortion. He says he changed his mind, but he still hasn’t changed the law. He told gay organizers in Massachusetts he would be a stronger advocate for special rights than even Ted Kennedy. Now, it’s something different.
Look, McCain knows what he’s doing. He saw how dirty attacks propelled George W. Bush to victory in South Carolina in 2000, and he’s following that path.
Single issue groups provide great information for voters; If you want to know where a candidate stands on guns, you turn to the NRA. If you want to know where a candidate stands on the forced return of the Gilded Age, you turn to any one of these groups. But if you wanted to know about where the candidates stand on Cousin Marriage, you had nowhere to turn… until now:
“Dedicated to providing objective, non-partisan information for voters and the media regarding cousin marriage issues in the 2008 Presidential Election. In particular, RudyMarriedHisCousin.org will provide substantive analysis of the campaign of Republican Rudy Giuliani, who married his cousin.”
More than the next generation of push polls, websites like these, I mean legitimate organizations like these, are different than push polls in one very important way: they’re freaking hilarious. This one also has the distinct advantage of being true. Rudolph married his cousin.
You see, now even his campaign says so. Everything bad is good, two plus two equals five, and failing to be endorsed by anyone or anything of any note in the state you’ve staked your presidential bid on means you are qualified to be America’s main man:
My grandfather always said that after three days, houseguests and fish start to smell the same. I guess in the case of Florida and the presidential election, it’s three months.
It’s been close to three months since Rudy Giuliani declared that his road to the White House marched up the Florida Turnpike. And now Governor Charlie Crist has said, “Hey Rudy, it’s been nice having you here. If you could take the sheets off the bed and put them in the laundry hamper on your way out the door, we’d appreciate it.”
How else can we read Crist’s endorsement of Sen. John McCain to be the Republican nominee yesterday? He’s saying to Giuliani that it’s time to pack your bags, get on that Fort Lauderdale to JFK flight on JetBlue, and head back to New York and the private sector.
All those cafe con leches and all that key lime pie didn’t mean much to Florida’s political establishment.
This comes as something of a shock to Team Rudy. Giuliani believed he had brought the best possible gift to his hosts - a promise that he’ll set up a National Catastrophic Insurance Fund for the hurricane-prone state, which is Crist’s favorite policy hobby horse. By promising to help property-owners recover their losses from big storms, Giuliani was convinced that he’d get Floridians, including Crist, in his pocket.
After all, according to Giuliani, McCain says that he’s opposed to a national catastrophe fund. How could Crist, or Floridians, support a candidate who opposes one of their top national policy priorities?
Instead, it’s apparently been more like Hurricane Rudy moving up the length of the peninsula. Most Floridians have simply been ducking for cover, waiting for the storm to pass, and hoping the Spanish tiles will still be up on their rooftops when it’s over.
The calculation here seems to be one of viability. According to Fox News, Crist had promised Giuliani an endorsement until New Hampshire, where the New Yorker finished so poorly in the polls. And so it appears that Rudy’s last one out of the gate, first one across the finish line strategy caused Crist and other Republican Party leaders to question his real chances of picking up across the country.
But what’s most significant about this endorsement is what it means for McCain. As a former official in the Jeb Bush administration, Crist is closer to the Bush dynasty than many of McCain’s supporters. Crist’s thumbs up will allow the Arizona senator to put on the mantle of true conservative and party leader with the backing of his party’s power structure. And if Crist can help McCain appear closer to the Bush family and their core Republican supporters, it will allow him to once and for all overcome the argument that he only gets the votes of independents and moderate Republicans. That’s what he must do if he’s going to build the coalition he needs to credibly claim he can defeat the Democrats in November.
That is the important question that needs answers based on Paul Kiel’s report on a new anti-Hillary group, excerpted below:
A couple of days ago, a group called Citizens United Not Timid filed papers with the IRS as a “527″ organization….
[…]
It’s this simple: it’s all about the group’s acronym, which, used in conjunction with Hillary Clinton, is supposed to be irresistibly humorous. That is the beginning and the end of it. The group will not be running ads in any form and will not be making any robocalls. They’ll be making T-shirts. That’s it. You can buy them for $25 on their website
Oh my. Hillary’s got no hopes of overcoming this onslaught. But even if they choose other candidates, we can imagine the possibilities:
Citizens Lose if Obama Triumphs
Help Edwards Reap the Presidency, Eat S**t
So, I think the only solution is to come up with some acronyms to counter the GOP candidates:
Giuliani Reeks Of September Sorrow
Choose Huckabee And Fight Evolution
McCain Earns Republican Disdain Everytime
Romney Always Flip Flops, Is Still Here
It’s a start toward acronym-based victory.
Via TPM, we get this jewel from The New York Daily News:
Giuliani’s Florida decline comes as he has flooded the state with money and resources — including having 50 paid staffers in four state offices and spending more than $1 million on advertising since Christmas.
At this point, sources said, he is spending about $350,000 a day on TV ads, a pace that would leave him essentially broke after Florida’s Jan. 29 primary.
Wow. Even Rudy’s top strategist, Brent Seaborn is basically like, “whatever” about Florida. When reporters asked Seaborn if Rudy would drop out after he looses Florida, Seaborn said, “I don’t know. I mean, that’s going to be Rudy’s decision.”
Let the campaign deathwatch begin.
[Update:] Now Rudy is saying he doesn’t even have to win Florida. Uh, dude, you’re running out of states in which you can downplay expectations.
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