Posted on 01/24/2008 8:01:05 AM PST by Liz
His wife is a social-climbing wanabe who stalked the married Mayor at a cigar bar. She had already blown through a couple husbands........one of which she belatedly owned up to just last spring. Rooty did not even know about husband number one. That musta made interestng breakfast conversation when Rudy cracked open the morning papers.
Rooty's secrecy about his global business operations and his associations with mobbed-up Bernie Kerik (Rooty's former driver, bodyguard, Police Commissioner, business partner, failed Homeland nominee, admmitted felon and tax evader (in that order) who is under federal investigation for lying to the WH.
FREEPER STOCKTRADER sums it up. "Rudy's “campaign” will go down as one of the most inept in modern history. If he loses Florida--where he has virtually LIVED for the last few months--his campaign will have exceeded Howard Dean's when it comes to ineptitude (and Rudy didn't even have to scream. It will be the mismanagement standard.....and model.....for all future "how-NOT-to-run-a-campaign" strategies. After all, how many candidates have EVER blown a lead as big as the one he had??"
That analysis has gotta go into the political history books. Man, Rooty got piped but good.
Giuliani worships at the Church of Whatever Works For Me. He has no moral center, he has no spiritual fidelity, and is completely without political loyalty. Says he's "conservative" but sucked up to liberals, sought Liberal backing, and employed numerous Liberals as Mayor/candidate.
He worships abortion, gay rights, and gun grabbing----all completly against Republican principles. His most fervent wish is to religiously cleanse the party and dump so/cals off the party lifeboat.
Rudy can get on his knees and hail Beelzebub dawn til dusk-----that ain't gonna happen.
Good. Get the pro-abort lib out of there.
Good! I would love to see him finish worse than 3rd in FL. Unfortunately, it looks like McCain is the one profiting from Rudy’s demise. I refuse to vote for either one of them, and I don’t care who the Democrat is come fall.
It’s gonna come down to a choice between Romney and McCain for the Repub nomination, and I just don’t see McCain beating Romney when all is said and done.
And I don’t see Hillary or Obama beating Romney either, once the general election campaign starts in earnest.
I see it the exact opposite. If Rudy does not win Florida, that pretty much ends his campaign, reverting that all to McCain. McCain, in that case will win NY, NJ, and maybe California. Those are all super delegate states that will propel him to the front. He will be the defacto front runner. McCain and Rudy share many of the same voters, they can not both be viable, and I think vs Mitt, McCain has a much stronger advantage than Rudy does.
If Rudy does not win, I think it is over for everyone but McCain.
I disagree. Romney's poll numbers against Hillary or Obama are poor. He and Rudy now have the highest unfavorables among GOP candidates.
There is a lot of wishful thinking around here. A lot of talk that early poll numbers don't matter. It's not that early, folks. He's been around for a year already! Only 20% of voters have no opinion of him. As people have gotten to know him, some GOP voters have liked him better, but in the electorate as a whole, he has played more unfavorably than favorably.
Romney looks unelectable to me.
I agree, it’s hard to see Rudy voters going to Romney, but OTOH, I am not sure Rudy will drop out if he loses FL (which I expect him to do). He’s stubborn, so he might hang in through Super Tuesday.
Draft Dick Cheney!
I haven’t lived in FL in6 yrs. Can any freepers down there tell me how Brevard county is leaning?
I disagree. The polls right now are meaningless. In a campaign between a decent man, and a evil tyrant Romney stands a chance of winning. And if he runs on conservative principles and articultates them forcefully, he wins in a landslide. Because the truth is on our side. Failure and a historyt of incompetence is on the side of the clinton’s.
Rudy and Huck are almost done. Wish Fred would have stayed in.
Rudy and Huck are almost done. Wish Fred would have stayed in.
The polls are not meaningless. For one thing, they allow us to see trends. Those who refuse to see the problems with a Mitt candidacy simply will not face the facts: the trend line shows that over the course of a full year, as the public has been more and more exposed to him, his unfavorables have risen. As have the number of people who say they absolutely will not vote for him.
One has to have a compelling argument that this phenomenon will suddenly reverse itself. I have yet to hear it. If he changes what he has been saying for the past year, he is going to be even more vulnerable on the charges of flipflopping and inauthenticity.
A lot of people don’t like him. It’s a shame so many FReepers cannot acknowledge reality.
Fred might be considered for VP or maybe the Cabinet.
Love conquers all!
The handle has been pushed and the turd is circling the bowl.
Heheh-—good one-—nice visual.
I also think that the polls may be off based on the early voting (up to 40% may have already voted), so exit polls, and such will be very far off.
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