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Report: Rudy Finished, Will Drop Out And Endorse John McCain
Rudy's efforts to ride his 9/11 magic carpet all the way into the White House appear to have foundered for good. The Associated Press reports that Rudy will drop out and endorse John McCain tomorrow in California.
In honor of this moment, we thought it would be worthwhile to rerun the Rudy ad that amounted to the single most ridiculous and self-parodic effort on his part to exploit 9/11.
In this ad, Rudy's campaign said that his response to the terror attacks was literally stronger than that of anyone else in the world -- stronger than that of Bush, stronger than that of the rest of America, stronger even that that of the first responders who perished saving the lives of others in the aftermath of the disaster...
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Let's get rid of Mitt "I'll flip flop on any issue" Romney.
http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2008/01/as-expected-here-mitt-ill-flip-flop-on.html#links
January 29, 2008 10:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
looks like mitt has serious problems now...
January 29, 2008 10:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillbots: Wake up now or President McCain is on your conscience.
January 29, 2008 10:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
PHEW! BuBye Rudy.
January 29, 2008 10:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
President McCain...yup, you're right, marcus. Could Edwards/Obama win? Or is Hillary "two fisted" (per those Kennedys) enough? Obama - oh, I want to believe. But she does have a little more under her belt. She's real. And pretty great in a lot of ways (despite the yuck factor - hello, it's DC, a smelly place, good for smelly but effective people). Nice problem to have, but you're right, it's serious.
January 29, 2008 11:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Imagine Rudy as McCain's VP with Cheney's powers. Rudy is still a danger.
January 29, 2008 11:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Media ads and "big state strategy" is not what did Giuliani in.
I told Darryl Fox (the magic man for Republicans in NY - including NY) in 1996 that the "big state strategy" could work only if:
All the money was spent on GOTV - NOT ADS.
If my former columnist Giuliani had spent from December 25, 2007 on hiring people to GOTV his 28% supporters by absentee,
and then rode the subsequent 15% at the polls he would have won.
If I had $100,000,000.00 that would have made me President.
It's not the avoidance of little states that provide media that wrecked him.
It's not spending on GOTV instead of the stupid concept that political ads - and not politics is local - will ever make a win.
George Soros, give me $100,000,000.00 to prove it.
January 29, 2008 11:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you Rudy!
You truly helped add an extention to the Grand Ol' Party's House. For the Republican Camp, you have greatly enlarged its forces. It is looong overdue that someone says to a gay person, someone who is for gun-control, or someone who chooses to fight the abortion battle a different way; yes you may call yourself a Republican too!
January 29, 2008 11:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
In all fairness, Rudy's response to 9/11 was stronger than Bush's. Remember Bush ran, hid, and remained incommunicado.
--Kibitzer
January 30, 2008 12:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Check Campaign Diaries' analysis of what tonight's Democratic results reveal about the state of the Democratic race. In short, Clinton held her ground and performed well among key groups, with some troubling signs as well.
January 30, 2008 1:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
A victory for ferrets and nude dancers everywhere!
January 30, 2008 4:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder how Giuliani's slightly more eviland slightly smarter twin sister feels that RUDE-ee is bailing out and not tossing his support to her. If fear-mongers can't stick together, who can?
How much longer will the GOP continue to snub the real heir to the Reagan legacy, just cuz our favorite Goldwater Girl is registered as a Demon-crat?
January 30, 2008 5:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Kibitzer,
RUDE-ee wanted to run and hide also but his honeymoon hideaway got all blowed up and he got stuck wandering the street in a fucking windbreaker while fireman and police and good citizens were dying . . .
Stop romancing Giuliani's stone-cold heart.
January 30, 2008 5:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
THANK GOD this megalomaniac dicator-wanna-be is is gone.
January 30, 2008 6:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
we're not out of the woods yet.. we could very well be looking at Attorney General Giuliani
::shudder::
January 30, 2008 7:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Frankly I'm still wondering which would be stronger - a McCain ticket that appeals to independents but not to the Republican establishment, or a Romney ticket with the full bag of Rove dirty tricks to use in the general election.
January 30, 2008 8:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hah! Perfect, now Rudy's got them just where he wants them. The path to the White House is now clear. Another brilliant stragegy!
January 30, 2008 10:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
All the best candidates have dropped out Bill Richardson would have made a great President, Ruddy would have been a moderate too and Edwards would have pushed against the Status Quo hard - Ron Paul a strict Constitutionalist can't get any traction (?in America?) We are suffering from brain rot and now have before us what the status quo and media have been pushing since day one - maybe Obama and a super majority democratic house and senate will push through new energy initiatives, cancel the subsidies to big oil and plow them into education - maybe he'll even have Richardson as a VP for his diplomacy skills - maybe we'll have lobbyist reform and public financing of campaigns - maybe a clean environment with the EPA fighting for clean air, water and food versus blocking multi state initiatives to clean up the air and demand better fuel economy, maybe, but as long as big oil controls the purse strings to ALL of their political ambitions - as long as anyone from Texas is lurking around (Kennedy got shot in Texas)the tax payers are an afterthought and our system of egos, power, greed, and corruption just perpetuates itself with perks, insider trading and behind closed door deals.
January 30, 2008 10:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
AMF mr. 9/11. Hopefully, your next stop will be a retirement community in st. petersburg. I don't want to hear the 9/11 mantra forever. Maybe 9/12 is finally here.
January 30, 2008 10:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
My sarcastic thanks to all the Independent voters and (idiotic) Democrats who crossed over to help McCain win the early states.
McCain was shown to be the only Repug with a chance to beat Obama and Hillary, and you morons voted for McCain in the primaries when Rudy, Romney and any other 'pug would've been dog meat.
Way to go. Thanks a pant load. Now we have a 50/50 chance of 4 more years of Neo-con warmongering.
*grumble grumble*
January 30, 2008 12:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Has anyone done the math on the republican side yet? I haven't seen recent polls for most of the super Tuesday states yet. But a sizable number don't have many moderate republicans or indies to draw from for McCain. Sure, he is going to win NY, CA, and NJ, but what about Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah, West Virginia, Georgia, Montana, and Tennessee. I saw Huck was ahead in TN and running second in OK. I don't know offhand which states are winner take all and what it would really take for McCain to sew things up that day.
My guess is that McCain takes the big blue states and the southwest, but Huck takes the south, ND, and maybe OK. Romney gets UT. If Romney only gets UT, which seems possible right now, he is done for. And even if Huck wins all those states I mentioned, the question is whether he would be competitive in the remaining big three (TX, PA, and OH).
It doesn't really bother me that indie voters in some states voted for McCain. I can vote in either primary in GA and have toyed at times with voting for McCain as he is clearly the best of a bad bunch. I have also toyed with voting in that primary against him to prevent him from being the nominee. Sadly, it looks like I have to vote Dem that day as its gonna be close. (though if I am lucky, Obama will have a huge lead in the polls by Tuesday and then I can be devious.)
January 30, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink