McCain Aide: Rudy's Entry Good For Us
Forget the fact that Rudy Giuliani is leading John McCain in many GOP Primary polls — Rudy's entry into the race is actually good for McCain. Or so says McCain adviser Dave Dishaw, a key operative for McCain in Michigan. Dishaw explained to the The Detroit Free Press that Rudy's social liberalism is helpful to the Arizona Senator: "McCain gets to be the true conservative candidate."
Their camp's argument is essentially that if Rudy does well, the base will do anything to stop the pro-choice, pro-gay candidate. If McCain happens to be the strongest competitor against Rudy, then they'll come to him as the Anybody-But-Rudy candidate, even if they might have been inclined to support a more reliable candidate like Sam Brownback of Mike Huckabee.
Dems should be *funding* Giuliani.
How Giuliani Will Help Elect the Democrat by Lawrence O'Donnell
When Republican primary voters discover how liberal Giuliani has been on social issues -- along with how many wives he's had and how many gay men he has lived with while waiting for a divorce to come through -- they are going to abandon him faster than Democratic voters fled from Howard Dean. But the only way they are going to 'discover' Giuliani's record on social issues is for John McCain to tell them about it. McCain's campaign has the most vicious attackers in politics today, including Bush campaign graduates and the Swift Boat attack team. They are going to make Giuliani look very bad to conservative voters, but, in the process, they are going to make McCain look bad to moderates he will need in the general election."
February 12, 2007 1:57 PM | Reply | Permalink