[2ndDivisionVet]

Uh-oh!

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

“Meanwhile, former Arkansas Gov. Huckabee, branded a “liberal” by rival Fred Thompson in a debate Thursday, struck back by noting that Thompson never supported Ronald Reagan’s candidacies for President.”

Fred supported his mentor and fellow Tennessean Howard Baker in the primaries in 1980 - and Reagan in the general.

I’m pretty sure he supported Ford in ‘76, he was the incumbent. Reagan was never a candidate for President in 76, he was a candidate for the Presidential nomination.

I don’t see how this means much, since Huckabee will destroy the Reagan coalition TODAY and Fred could probably hold it together, even with his warts.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

We were all hoping RUdy would go away.

Is it even a win that he was replaced by Huckabee?

It’s like having to choose which you’d rather have, a heart attack or a stroke.

[Rudder]

...$7 million on hand at the end of December, Giuliani said he expects to sink almost the entire wad into Florida.

He should set up an agency to adopt Italian orphans instead.

[sheik yerbouty]

I think he’s playing possum..

[Liz]

IF---BIG IF---Giuliani is running short on funds---I find it hard to believe Rooty can't access the zillions he's got offshore----stashed all over the world in multiple companies he owns. He reportedly earns $one million dollars a month from his global financial interests.

Hmmmmmm.....Rudy's national finance co-chair has stepped down and is working at Rudy's firm Giuliani Partners.

Robert Novak reported the latest FEC figures show Rudy Giuliani leads the SC (Jan 19) money game, then McCain, Romney and Thompson. For Michigan (Jan. 15) and Florida (Jan. 29). FEC has Romney leading Michigan and Giuliani ahead in Florida.

I DO find it believable that Giuliani's viability is tanking from the scandals attached to his name. Giuliani was hurt by scandals involving mobbed-up Bernard Kerik (Rooty's former bodyguard, driver, Police Commissioner and business partner---in that order).

PLUS Rudy's porking his mistress on the public dime and hiding the theft of public services in obscure city agencies, then lying about it to voters.

Unzipped Rudy is something else. Giuliani's messy personal life is a big turnoff to women voters. Rudy had no qualms causing the public humiliation of his second wife by dumping her at a news conference without even telling her. He tried to dump his two young kids out in the streets---saying he was dividing the Mayoral mansion in two---to move in his mistress.

It makes wives and moms around the country skeptical of putting him in the White House. If he can't control his zipper, how can he control the country? One news poll found 50% of women overall - and 48% of GOP women - are less likely to vote for Giuliani because he dumped his second wife Donna Hanover at a 2000 press conference.

Lots of women say Giuliani's assigning seven tax-funded bodyguards/drivers to his girlfriend while his wife was still NYC's First Lady was EVEN WORSE than Rudy's public humiliation of the mother of his children. "Rotten" is a word that came up again and again when women refer to Rudy.

All of that could affect his fund-raising.

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When it was reported two days ago that Fred was doing the same thing "his staff going of reduced pay" it was LIES, DAMED LIES, until it was proven by a press release on his own website. It is amazing that people here believe every bad thing about every candidate right away, except Fred.

This story is true, so if the fact that Fred is doing the same thing in South Carolina. At this point in the primaries it is always do or die in certain States. This is a political reality.

All the while Fred raises $750,000 in one week vs Mitt who can raise $5.5 Million in one DAY. They are all going to be facing money crunches in the next couple of weeks, we should just read these stories with interest and move on.