Rudy, Slipping In Polls, Launches Aggressive Attack On Romney
Uh, oh -- looks like Rudy Giuliani is suddenly aware that the GOP nomination isn't his for the taking. In the wake of polls showing him sinking in New Hampshire, he's just launched an aggressive attack on someone other than Hillary, taking his toughest shots yet at the New Hampshire and Iowa frontrunner, Mitt Romney.
WINDHAM, N.H. — In a big strategic shift, Rudy Giuliani hammered Mitt Romney’s record Sunday on three fronts, saying it was time to “take the mask off and take a look at what kind of governor was he.”Using some of the toughest language of his campaign, Giuliani, in an interview with Politico, slammed Romney on health care, crime and taxes. At the same time he portrayed the one-time moderate as a hypocrite on a host of social issues who lives “in a glass house.” It was easily the most sweeping attack Giuliani has delivered against Romney in this campaign.
There is ample evidence that the Rudy camp is upending its strategy in the wake of news that Romney is solidifying his lead in the early primary states.
As Politico's Jonathan Martin notes, for Rudy to attack a fellow Republican, rather than Hillary, is a big turnabout for the Mayor:
In an interview with Politico in early October, also in New Hampshire, Giuliani argued that he could unite the party after the nomination battle because he had no plans to go after his rivals.“It’s my intention not to attack any other Republicans, absolutely,” Giuliani said. “The whole focus of my campaign is I’m going to run against a Democrat.”
Asked after Sunday’s interview why Giuliani was going on the offensive now, communications director Katie Levinson said Romney “has attacked and misrepresented the mayor’s record for months. At some point, enough is enough.”
The obvious turnabout gave Romney spokesman Kevin Madden the opening he needed. “It’s due in large part to fact that he’s slipping in polls,” Madden replied. “There is a sense of desperation coming from the mayor.”
Good. We don't need another incompetent, power hungry cowboy in the whitehouse. Been there and done that and it was a disaster. (See last 7 years).
November 26, 2007 11:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
I look forward to hearing Giuliani distinguish between Mitt's philosophy while in government and his own. Is there a single issue on which he'll be able to smear Mitt as more liberal? Both were more liberal in office than Hillary.
November 26, 2007 11:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
As a Massachusetts resident, I can tell you that Mitt promised us, and in very very strong terms, publicly and privately, and repeatedly, that he was very strongly pro women's rights and pro gay rights, and until later in his term when he clearly had his eye on the current campaign, he was consistantly supportive of gun control laws. His rationales for changing his views are clearly nothing more than self-serving made-up fairy tales. If Mitt said those things to us in his run for governor just to get elected so that he could then pursue his conservative values once in office, then he is an out and out liar. In his first two years as Governor, that is until the ambition bug infected then took over his soul, that is if he has one rather than a plastic heart, he was a creative moderate, certainly not a conservative. We learned that there is only one thing that matters to Mitt: Mitt. An extremely self-serving individual who will say and do anything to get elected. He could care less about us ordinary Joes and Janes. Who knows what he really believes, if he really believes anything? He has certainly shown himself to be completely untrustworthy. At least Rudy has the courage of his convictions, whether you agree with him or not. Mitt is a phoney baloney Pander Bear.
November 26, 2007 12:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rudy Guliani was too busy before 9-11 protecting the interests of Kerik who is now under federal indictment.He knew about his mafia connections and kickbacks.
He was protecting his friend - a pedophile preist.
He got kickbacks from the company that made defective radios that firemen had to use.
He was seeing another women while married.
No wonder he did not protect Americans before 9-11.
And murder rates went up by over 3000 in 2001 alone while Guliani was the mayor of new york.
November 26, 2007 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well I can tell you that as a Massachusetts Republican, I would vote for almost any other candidate, Democrat or Republican, over Mitt Romney. I am against him because of:
(a) his unconstitutional health care reform
(b) his severe mishandling of the disasterous "Big Dig"
(c) his poor judgement on almost all of his appointments
(d) the insane amount of fees he forced upon MA citizens
(e) the insane amount of state taxes I had to pay
(f) his corrupt corporate campaign
(g) he will say anything to get elected, even if he contradicts himself a million times over...the only reason he could win a governorship in MA is if he claimed to be proabortion, progaymarriage, antigun...now the only way he can get the Repub nomination for the presidency is if he says the opposite
(h) he only ran for Governor so that he could run for the White House
(i) he brings nothing to the table. America needs change and reform, hope and unity. How will Mitt Romney bring that to America? He won't!
November 26, 2007 3:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
I pretty much agree, except that I have no idea how health care reform could be unconstitutional and Mass. actually has pretty low state taxes when compared to the overall tax rate of other states (i.e. sales/property/income).
November 26, 2007 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
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November 26, 2007 7:21 PM | Reply | Permalink