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HOW RUDY TOPPLED FROM POLITICAL PEAK (mountains of negative stories)
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| January 30, 2008
| MAGGIE HABERMAN
Posted on 01/30/2008 8:03:49 AM PST by Liz
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Must be a record in American politics---Rudy spent $50 million and got one delegate for his trouble.
One blogger posted: "Rudi Julie Annie is finally accepting the fact that no one likes him or wants him to be the next President, it figures that this grotesque, cross-dressing, Nosferatu look alike is going to support John McCain... McCain and Hillary... No difference."
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posted on
01/30/2008 8:03:54 AM PST
by
Liz
To: Liz
One blogger posted: "Rudi Julie Annie is finally accepting the fact that no one likes him or wants him to be the next President, it figures that this grotesque, cross-dressing, Nosferatu look alike is going to support John McCain... McCain and Hillary... No difference." BTTT
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posted on
01/30/2008 8:06:54 AM PST
by
org.whodat
(What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
To: Liz
I think there are people that do like Rudy, but he didn’t do, for whatever reason, what it took to keep his candidacy alive. I’m disappointed that he has decided to endorse McCain. I think he should have stayed neutral.
To: Liz
He was just too liberal. Why can’t you guys in the press understand that?
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posted on
01/30/2008 8:10:58 AM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired of all the politics in politics.)
To: Liz
“Rudy Giuliani sailed into a political perfect storm.”
ooops
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posted on
01/30/2008 8:14:33 AM PST
by
jedward
To: beaversmom
I think there are people that do like Rudy, but he didnt do, for whatever reason, what it took to keep his candidacy alive.Exactly. Staying out of the early caucii and all the free press and limelight associated with them was a dumb move.
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posted on
01/30/2008 8:14:40 AM PST
by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: Liz
I think Republicans can stomach some socially liberal positions, but not all positions.
McCain is probably bit just as liberal, but can pretend to be otherwise better. His POW status helps.
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posted on
01/30/2008 8:15:10 AM PST
by
Barney Gumble
(A liberal is someone too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel - Robert Frost)
To: Liz
Well, there were all the things mentioned in the article, but there was also the fact that the candidate’s positions were anathema to mainstream Republican and conservative values.
Giuliani was a radical pro-abort, and maintained his position with an “in your face” attitude every time it was brought up.
He supported gun control and other attacks on the 2nd Amendment, which conservatives rightly hold dear.
He was a vocal champion of gay “rights” and civil unions.
He got the miserable showing he deserved. He should have run as a Democrat, he would have done better.
To: Liz
Once McCain clinches majority of delgates there will be buckets of mud coming from the usual suspects.
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posted on
01/30/2008 8:23:38 AM PST
by
AU72
To: Liz
Say what you will about the guy, but the liberal establishment really, really, really hates his guts.
That says something for him, I’m not sure what, but it says something.
To: Liz
Rudy ran like he was a entitled liberal, which he is. He was too good to get in the trenches and fight it out, no he just figured it was his and he had “earned” and was entitled to the nomination. I still can’t see what people saw in him.
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posted on
01/30/2008 8:25:01 AM PST
by
engrpat
To: Liz
"He faced mountains of negative stories about disgraced ally Bernie Kerik, and spent two weeks punching at shadows over reports alleging that, while mayor, he deliberately hid security expenses related to his then-mistress. His campaign never got its arms around the story, and it took a visible toll on Giuliani - who then wasted another week dodging questions about a health scare aboard his campaign plane." Lame excuses, IMHO.
It's your LIBERALISM Rudy.
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posted on
01/30/2008 8:25:16 AM PST
by
sweet_diane
(213 days to kickoff! Roll Tide ROLL !)
To: Liz
Will the truth file fade from FR? And the banned souls drift back? Who knooows....
To: Liz
How Rudy toppled from political peak I don't know about anybody else, but the prospect of seeing this picture until election day was more than I could handle:
To: Liz; PhilDragoo
People like you and Phil Dragoo on the internet exposed Rudy’s realities.
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posted on
01/30/2008 8:35:39 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
("Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!"- Jim Robinson, Sept, 30, 2007)
To: Liz
Negative stories my patootie. His absurd strategy of not campaigning in the early primaries was what did him in. If being liberal on a lot of things had done him in, then McCain wouldn’t be the frontrunner.
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posted on
01/30/2008 8:40:00 AM PST
by
squidly
To: Grampa Dave; Liz; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; dixiechick2000; MeekOneGOP
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posted on
01/30/2008 8:40:01 AM PST
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
To: Liz
It’s amazing how his career went into a flat spin after bowing out of the Senate race with Hellary. Everything is falling right into place for a HELLary Presidency. Its almost as if the devil himself was working on her behalf.
Reminder: Defeating Hellary is the Prime Directive.
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posted on
01/30/2008 8:49:13 AM PST
by
Hacklehead
(Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the hippies.)
To: AU72
Yep, they took down Giuliani and they will take down McCain the same way. If anything, he’s got more dirt in his background than Giuliani could ever hope to have.
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posted on
01/30/2008 8:49:43 AM PST
by
LadyNavyVet
(I don't vote for Democrats, and that includes John McCain.)
To: Liz; Jim Robinson
Hey Liz!
While I am pleased and gratified to see Rudy-Tooty about to bow out, the idea that we're looking at a potential McInsane nomination is appalling, kind of like finishing up chemotherapy, being told that you have a clean bill of health, and then the next day you discover flesh-eating bacteria starting to gnaw on you.
But kudos to Jim Rob and FR and the famous 'Bug Zapper' thread that not only cleansed and purified this forum from the abominable RudyBots, I've no doubt that the organized resistance to Rudy on FR started reverberations that helped to undermine his campaign, and "that's a GOOD thing!".
Now we have to figure out how to throw a monkey wrench into the 'Straight-RINO Express', and insead draft retired General Peter Pace, USMC as the GOP nominee.
Pace can do for the GOP this year, what Ike did in '52.
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posted on
01/30/2008 9:03:56 AM PST
by
mkjessup
(GOP + FOX + National Review = The NEW "Axis of RINOs")
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