To be honest with you, I never looked at it that way. It is axiomatic that the left wanted to boost Rudy, so they could trash him, as he has more baggage than Paris Hilton. But It never crossed my mind that Rudy is so liberal, that if the MSM could not destroy him, they could tolerate him as the winner. OK, I never claimed to be a brain surgeon : )
They wouldn’t mind too much, either way it swings the country leftward.. and those GOP’ers that are doing a balancing act would be more apt to come out of their liberal closets with Rudy at the helm.. but I do tend to agree that the MSM will lower the boom on Rudy once hitlery or osamabama win their primary.
They're really hoping he's 'our' guy for a number of reasons in my view.
First of all, he's a lib. And anything they can do to advance the liberal agenda they're going to do. That includes 'liberalizing', for lack of a better word, the Republican Party. Rudy does this in a big way.
Second, even though they know Rudy will trounce Hillary (that assumes she's the nominee, I doubt she will be) they'll still have a pro-abort, anti-Federalism lib in the WH. They win again.
Third, they know Rudy is a big McCain-Feingold supporter. With him in the WH they don't have to worry about some pesky conservative trying to alter or repeal that stupid piece of legislation.
So it makes perfect sense that the legacy media is all over the Rudy bandwagon. He's their wet dream in a Republican candidate.
No matter who loses the election, they win.
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