Stick a fork in him
I don’t care if Giuliani has a lead in the polls for the Republican nomination, this ought to finish him off:
When Rudy Giuliani faces Republicans concerned about his support of gay rights and legal abortion, he reassures them that he is a conservative on the decisions that matter most.
“I would want judges who are strict constructionists because I am,” he told South Carolina Republicans last month. “Those are the kinds of justices I would appoint — Scalia, Alito and Roberts.”
But most of Giuliani’s judicial appointments during his eight years as mayor of New York were hardly in the model of Chief Justice John Roberts or Samuel Alito — much less aggressive conservatives in the mold of Antonin Scalia.
A Politico review of the 75 judges Giuliani appointed to three of New York state’s lower courts found that Democrats outnumbered Republicans by more than 8 to 1. One of his appointments was an officer of the International Association of Lesbian and Gay Judges. Another ruled that the state law banning liquor sales on Sundays was unconstitutional because it was insufficiently secular.
There’s only one real issue in American politics: reproductive rights. And Rudy’s on the right side of it, which makes him the wrong candidate for the right wing.  He can get a big Confederate Flag tatoo on his forehead and he still won’t win the South Carolina primary.
. . . And Rudy’s on the right side of it, which makes him the wrong candidate for the right wing. . .
Wait. If he was wrong on it, that would make him right for the left wing? Or right for the wrong wing, or write for the left wing? Left for the wrong wing?
There’s a winging in my ears. I’m so confused. . . .
I’m glad someone liked that strange tongue twister…
while i would ordinarily agree that this should be pretty crippling to his chances in a GOP primary, this year is more complex because you have to look around and ask, who else will conservatives go to? They’re suspect of Romney, they have a longstanding fear and loathing of McCain, Huckabee is pretty far out of it at this point, and while they love Brownback, he’d be DOA in a general election. Meanwhile, Rudy is “an American Hero.”
If he does make it through the primary, though, stuff like this may be enough to keep the folks on the far right (and religious right) home, which would be a windfall for our candidate.
So far, there’s no Republican candidate who both appeals the the ‘wingers and has the ability to bamboozle the general electorate into believing he’s a moderate. This is very good news for progressives; not only will it give a Democrat a better chance of winning the presidential election, but it might also encourage the right-wing authoritarians in our midst to crawl back under their rocks or go bay at the moon the way that they used to before they hijacked the Republican party.
along those same lines, I do like that the right has no idea where to focus their fire, and are thus stabbing any and every of their guys in the back.
back to back headlines on Drudge this morning:
“TIME Poll: Giuliani Surges Past McCain; Has Highest Favorability of Any Candidate…
Draft questions cloud Giuliani’s chances…”
Right-wing authoritarian leaders are, almost by definition, an immoral bunch. When the going gets tough, they tear each other to shreds, which is what you are seeing. Don’t doubt for a moment that McCain and Guiliani will spend the entire primary season beating each other bloody with negative ads, smear campaigns and other dirty tricks. By the end of the process, both candidates will have the same high negatives as Hillary and will be exposed to the general public as the moral cripples they are.
I still think Giuliani has the best chance out for the candidates in the GOP… Furthermore, while I would pull the lever for Hillary in the General Election with a grain of salt, I’m sure the GOP faithful would do the same for Rudy.