Oh, man, I need a 9/11 fix

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It’s only been a few hours since Rudy Giuliani quit the campaign trail, and I already miss him.

But I’ll always have this to remind me of Mr. September Eleventh:

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John McCain, the liberal

5 comments January 30th, 2008

In the comments section of the post  six down from this one (it’s about Rudy Giuliani), I disagreed with a reader who characterized John McCain as “way left of center.”

But then, lots of conservative Republicans see McCain as too liberal for their tastes. Take, for example, the people who sponsored this ad:

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Oh, no! Not again!

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Ralph Nader should go away, stay away and forget stuff like THIS.

Why does the Army hate our troops?

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And why aren’t the presidential candidates making a big stink about stuff like THIS?

Vermonters disdain Bush and Cheney

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I’m no fan of the current administration, but even I think THIS is a bit extreme.

Hillary’s Florida ‘victory’ no big deal

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A commenter on THIS PREVIOUS POST sees great political significance in Hillary Clinton’s big win in Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Florida.

I disagree (as I noted in my response to the comment), and I invoke THIS PIECE by Josh  Marshall to buttress my argument.

Edwards is dropping out

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Former Sen. John Edwards, whose presidential candidacy was overshadowed by the race and gender (respectively) of his two principal rivals for the Democratic nomination, is PACKING IT IN.

Poor Rudy never had a chance

8 comments January 30th, 2008

 

Rudy Giuliani, who finished third in Tuesday’s Florida primary, is expected to DROP OUT of the race for the Republican presidential nomination today and endorse John McCain.

The pundits will have their post-mortems on Giuliani’s candidacy, but let none of them say he ever had the slightest chance of becoming the GOP standard bearer.

Even during Rudy’s 10-month ride as the front-runner, anybody with half a brain should have recognized that I was more likely to win the Nobel Prize for Physics than “America’s mayor” was to become the Republican nominee.

Giuliani’s early lead in the polls owed to the fact that most rank-and-file Republicans knew little about him other than his having got some ashes on his suit when the World Trade Center was attacked.

The more people learned of his three marriages (one of them to his cousin), his pro-choice position on abortion, his favor for gay rights, his anti-gun rhetoric, his colorful lifestyle and numerous other elements of his story, the more his political star faded.

Nor did he help his own cause when he way, way, way overplayed the Sept. 11 thing. He so overdid it that he turned a national tragedy into a joke, the butt of which was him.

POSTSCRIPT: The demise of Giuliani’s candidacy and the gradual fade of George W. Bush’s unpopular presidency are factors in the DECLINE of the Republican Party’s semi-official propaganda machine, the Fox News Channel.