Friday, November 17th, 2006...7:01 am
Hey! Giuliani
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With this week’s media buzz about Rudy Giuliani taking yet another step to run for president, I am having a wee bit of trouble wrapping my head around the punditry’s “meme” about this guy’s candidacy.
Here’s what the pundits say: Giuliani’s liberal views on abortion, gun control and gay rights makes him pallatable to mainstream voters, but those same views from a Democrat make that candidate horribly out of touch with those same mainstream voters.
A lollypop to anyone who can explain how that works.
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November 17th, 2006 at 8:45 am
Everything is good for Republicans, bad for Democrats. It’s not hard.
For example: “The thumping we just took in the election is good for us, beacuse it will give people a chance to see what Dems are _really_ like before the 2008 Presidential race. After that exposure, the voters will surely back us in record numbers.”
November 17th, 2006 at 11:28 am
Sirocco & Tedski,
I think the general concensus is that it was much better for Republicans to have a meltdown this year than in 2008. With the direction they were headed, this was bound to happen. Fortunately, the Democratic hill to climb really isn’t that high, and “We hate Bush!” is no longer going to be your only selling point. Democrats are going to have to lead, and so far there has been precious little proof that this can happen, especially as this is not the 90’s when hard decisions could be avoided.
If Hoyer were the Speaker, Obama or Ben Nelson head of the Senate, and Warner the most likely Presidential candidate, I would be fretting a little more to be honest. Pelosi, Clinton, and Reid make me like our chances in 2008 for both Houses and the Presidency.
And as far as far as abortion, gun control, and gay rights, there is a good chance that these stands could cost him the nomination. However, there is a far difference between Guiliani having these beliefs and his making them a priority if President. Clinton, and most other Democrats, on the other hand believe in them enough to place them in their agenda.
My gut is still that Rudy isn’t quite ready.
November 17th, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Framer,
Considering Dems aren’t in the majority until Jan., isn’t it a little early to have expected much on the agenda front yet?
I _do_ agree it helps Republicans to have had this out now rather than two years from now.
November 17th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
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November 17th, 2006 at 11:02 pm
What are republican religious fundamentalists going to say about Rudy when stories of him sleeping with his mistress in the mayor’s mansion while wifey and the kids slept upstairs are repeated all over again?
Poor copy, that.
And besides, he’s Catholic so fundametalists will not be able to forgive him. Oh the irony.
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