Tuesday, January 29th, 2008...5:38 pm
An Early Post-Mortem for the Giuliani Campaign
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Any of you ever see the War Room? At the end, James Carville is looking at Ross Perot’s “concession” (if it can even be called that) and exclaims, “This was the single greatest act of masturbation in history!”
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January 29th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Masturbation, indeed!
and one of the biggest strategical blunders in presidential campaign history.
January 29th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Ha! I loved it a couple of days ago when I saw the headline, “Giuliani’s last stand.” Last stand?! How about his first! And his last.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Did Rudy and his wife dance to “Crazy” too?
January 29th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Guliani set to endorse McCain……
GOP and Dems are now 2 horse races…… at least for another week.
January 30th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Alas, poor Rudy! I knew him, John Edwards.
January 30th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Giuliani had the worst campaign strategy ever devised by anyone. Completely ignore the first five primaries and make sure that the voters in the rest of the country perceive you as a loser. Then, come from behind after stunning losses behind the fringe candidates and get the GOP nomination. Geez, I hope his consulting business or whatever it is he does uses a different team for strategic planning.
January 30th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
In Giuliani’s defense, I’m not really sure what else he could’ve done, short of not entering the race in the first place.
Iowa, Nevada and South Carolina were states he was never, ever going to be able to compete in given his issue profile. I think we’re a long way off from a pro-choice, pro-gay rights, pro-gun control candidate carrying the GOP contests in those states.
That left New Hampshire. And he flat out got beat in New Hampshire by John McCain. Keep in mind, he did try to compete there. He visited the state more than any other candidate, save Romney.
Low on cash, and on momentum, he needed to try and build a firewall somewhere. Florida is obviously much better territory for a former New York mayor than Michigan. And so it goes…
I really don’t think his failure was his strategy, per se, but the fact that he somehow deluded himself into thinking that Republican primary voters would completely ignore a huge chunk of his issue profile and focus solely on his “cut taxes, kill the terrorists” platform.
Starting a year ago, and every day subsequently, I would’ve bet my savings that Giuliani would not be the nominee. He was never going to win.