AX FALLS AT RUDY FIRM (Judi's checking the mail)

NY POST ^ | February 29, 2008 | MAGGIE HABERMAN

[Liz]

Giuliani Partners, Rudy's consulting firm, has laid off staffers as the business is reshaped after his failed presidential campaign........layoffs involved at least five administrative staffers.

[Liz]

Judi Giuliani must get agita everytime the mailman delivers---figuring the divorce papers are in transit. Besides Rudy's ridiculous "Save Myself For Florida" strategy, Judi, more than anyone, should be blamed for Rudy's ignominious fall from power. Judi brought enough political baggage to fill a Louis Vuitton trunk.

Clearly, Rudy's ignominious presidential flop can be traced back to Judi - the woman he fell for when she stalked him in a cigar bar in 1999 ---- when he was the married mayor with a wife and two young children at home. "She was a major part of the reason for Giuliani's collapse," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "Rudy wanted to head up the 'family values' party, and Judi didn't fit that label. " Even more egregious, Judi was instrumental in Giuliani's estrangement from his children. Their refusal to campaign for their own father spoke volumes to voters.

The political hits just kept coming. Among the misfires that brought national embarrassment to the one-time RINO frontrunner: (1) Rudy's cutting off his wife's security detail in favor of giving Judi taxpayer-funded NYPD detectives 24/7 as personal valets, dog-walkers and chauffeurs while she was the mayor's mistress; (2) Judi's revelations of a secret past marriage; and, (3) staging a cell phone call in the midst of Giuliani addressing the National Rifle Association.

Mike McKeon, the Giuliani campaign aide who was in charge of handling Mrs. Giuliani's national "roll-out" said that despite her lack of campaigning, she was an experienced public speaker who would remain on the trail. "Judith is nothing but an asset, and, as the campaign continues, she's going to be a larger and larger asset," he had said. "She'll be one of our key surrogates." That about sums up the series of flops that totaled Giuliani's aspirations.

Doubts emerged early about Judi, the former pharmaceutical sales rep. She had to fess up to the world that she had forgotten she had a first husband---even Rudy did not know he was married to a serial divorcee. Her willingness to be squired around to official functions by the married mayor and her complicity in the humiliation of his wife were not to be tolerated.

Judith Giuliani's rollout on ABC's 20/20 where she said she would sit in Cabinet meetings was a monumental disaster. So much so the two had to inveigle Sean Hannity to re-interview them to refute the statement. Judi was rolled back inside the campaign tent as fast as she was rolled out.

[NewLand]

I would venture to say the Giulani "campaign" was the biggest flop in the history of modern day politics.

Thank you, God.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Rudy came up with the perfect plan. For whom it was perfect, is anyone’s guess.

[Clemenza]

Rudy spent 40 Million dollars and only got one more delegate than I did.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Hmmm...Rudy cant get a loan from his partners at Dubai Ports? Or, dinero from the NAFTA Superhighway people?

Wonder if McAztlan can get him more non-American work

[pallis]

Now, now folks, Rudy did give us Senator Hillary Clinton.

[Dick Bachert]

YOU’RE WELCOME!

[Liz]

......the Giulani "campaign" was the biggest flop in the history of modern day politics..........

Some pundits have likened it to the biggest flop in a millenium.

I maintain it was his wacky strategy that did him in. As one pundit put it---his campaign was a mix of arrogance and ignorance. Rudy had a sneering contempt for the electorate----he stupidly thought they could not see through his campaign facade.

Giuliani now says he was "aware" his strategy of bypassing early primary states carried high risks. "We were defying conventional wisdom. We had no choice but to do that. I wasn't going to change my positions"........

This strategy is better known as Rudy's Kicking Conservatives to the Curb By Destroying the Repub Party Strategy. The be-all and end-all of the RINO's campign was to religiously cleanse the Repub Party and throw conservatives off the party lifeboat---based on the ignorant assumprtion that conservatives were going to rollover and play dead. That didn't happen--conservatives are the ones that defeated this unremitting liberal fraud.

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Let's not ever, ever forget----Giuliani rigorously competed in every primary/and caucus state, spent $60 million and garnered one delegate. His so-called "withdrawal" from the race was not of his own volition---he gamely campaigned 61 days straight in Fla and finished a distant third. The more voters saw and heard this charlatan, the more his candidacy nosedived. Good riddance.

[oldbill]

Is he going to hire illegals to replace them?

They do save you a lot of money.

[DocH]

Couldn't have happened to a "nicer" a**hole RINO.

Too bad for the goofballs that hung their hats on this "rising" "star" though.

And then there's the same type of Freeper goofballs that did the same thing.

Too bad we couldn't have a real, no-shiite Conservative representing us, but at least mccain, though a RINO, is no where near as bad as jack-booted-thug rudolph.

[DocH]

Rudy spent 40 Million dollars and only got one more delegate than I did.

Sounds like that'd be a great tagline.

[Liz]

Billy Kristol (Fox pundit) his daddy, and that crowd, switched to McCain when their boy Giuliani tanked like a deadweight going down a 300 ft cistern. Keep in mind, the Kristols are cheerleaders for the current admin's most destructive polices---including the twice-failed illegals amnesty plan.

The Kristols are the architects of Giuliani's failed strategy to religiously cleanse the Repub party and kick conservatives to the curb.

Watch candidate McCain talk about illegals, the Kristol's Hundred Year War, and not pandering to conservatives----McCain's posture changes---like the Kristol's are tightening his leash.

[Liz]

MEMO TO McCAIN: If you wanna win, baby, you better tell the hyphenate crowd to get lost.....and that includes Mexican loyalist Juan Hernandez.

McCain's indoctrinated with the Kristol's Dump Conservatives line---saying he won't "pander" to so/cons to get this important constituency behind his candidacy. According to McQueeg, it's called "pandering" only when applied to conservatives.

McC has no problem pandering to illegals McCain chose a dual-loyalty traitor to be his "Hispanic Outreach Director." Talk about pandering-----McCain said he chose Hernandez because he agrees with his positions.

Juan Hernandez was born in Dallas and decided as an adult to become a dual-national Mexican citizen. His last verifiable job was serving in Mexican President Vicente Fox's cabinet as Fox's "American Reconquista Director." Hernandez then worked for Bush hater George Soros' international foundations---(one such foundation published Hernendez's book that taunts Americans).

Hernandez believes all illegal Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the USA should become dual citizens and consider themselves Mexicans first, "to the 8th generation." The "New American Pioneers" proclaimed in his book are the illegal alien invaders he urges to become settlers in the USA for "Reconquista"---the plan to take back the SW.

[TommyDale]

"This strategy is better known as Rudy's Kicking Conservatives to the Curb By Destroying the Repub Party Strategy."

The strategy has been morphed into the"McCain's Kicking Conservatives to the Curb By Destroying the Repub Party Strategy." Unfortunately, it seems to have worked for McCain. This makes me wonder if the entire strategy all along was to first show Giuliani as unbearable, then we would accept McCain as a compromise.

[trisham]

As much as I despise Judi, Giuliani chose her, and chose to allow her to participate in his campaign. It’s his poor judgment that is to blame.

[Designer]

"Rudy came up with the perfect plan. For whom it was perfect, is anyone’s guess."

Uuhh...McCain?

That'd be my guess.

[Conspiracy Guy]

That is how it worked out.

[highball]

Rudy came up with the perfect plan. For whom it was perfect, is anyone’s guess.

Perfect for the country - we couldn't afford to have him in the White House.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I agree with that. I just can’t figure out why he even put his name up with such a stupid strategy.

[cricket]

Among those let go was the sister of Beth Petrone-Hatton, Giuliani's longtime assistant, the sources said.

. . .whatever. . .

His self-determined 'death-dive' notwithstanding; have been wondering what Rudy has been up to lately. . .and if wife, Judi is fully recovered.

[Clemenza]

Thanks for the suggestion, see below.

[calcowgirl]

Mike McKeon... said ... she was an experienced public speaker who would remain on the trail. "Judith is nothing but an asset... She'll be one of our key surrogates."

Thank you, Mike. That misjudgment helped save the country from Rudy. Way to go!

[bioqubit]

Donna, his former wife, just didn’t know how, or care, to keep her man. I blame her.

[Condor51]

Yep, Judi played a HUGH part in Rooty's demise. She was repulsive and their whole relationship was beneath tacky. To call her a Trollop gives Trollops a bad name.

Add in Rooty's in your face liberalism and it spelled doom. His quest to be POTUS running as a Republican was a fool's errand of the n^th degree.

[Liz]

Mike McKeon... said ... "Judith is nothing but an asset... She'll be one of our key surrogates."

Mike had on the ruby slippers when he said that----Dorothy told him "wishing will make it so." ROTFL.

[Clemenza]

While I am no fan of Donna, I still don't see why anyone would want to marry a dirty control freak like Rudy, other than for power.

[Liz]

This makes me wonder if the entire strategy all along was to first show Giuliani as unbearable, then we would accept McCain as a compromise.

CALCOWGIRL'S EXCELLENT RESEARCH CAME UP WITH THIS TIDBIT:

McCain was planning to leave the Republican Party to fight Bush in 2004. The option was being discussed by McCain’s inner circle of advisers and some of his backers have begun setting up policy think-tanks and other groups to lay the ideological foundations for another third-party challenge in the Bull Moose style.

Fox pundit Billy Kristol and Marshall Wittmann started something called the Project for Conservative Reform (aka Kick Conservatives to the Curb Project). The Project for Conservative Reform at the Hudson Institute has assembled a group keeping up a steady stream of criticism aimed at Mr Bush for his reliance on corporate cash. Having lost control of the Senate after the defection of Senator James Jeffords earlier this year, the White House is sensitive to the threat that McCainr could also leave the party. Any such move would almost certainly deny Mr Bush a second term by splitting the Republican vote. Mr Bush is also facing mounting pressure from moderates within his party who, like Mr McCain, are at odds with the tough conservative line taken by the Republican leadership.

“We are making life tougher for the leadership,” Amory Houghton, one of the most prominent Republican moderates in the House of Representatives, said. Mr McCain campaigned energetically for House Republicans during the election and some are coming to see him as their natural leader. “In the past, the House Republican moderates were the most docile group in town,” Marshall Whittmann, a McCain adviser and the director of the project for Conservative Reform, said. “That’s changing.”

Which raises a question. If national-greatness conservatism scorns the Christian right, jettisons the struggle to shrink government, and champions an idealistic foreign policy more likely to be supported by The New York Times than Dick Armey, in what meaningful, contemporary sense is it conservatism at all?

If you haven't seen much of this heresy in the pages of The Weekly Standard, that's because on domestic policy Kristol and Brooks have become a minority in their own office. Unable to turn the Standard into a vehicle for their movement, they've essentially stopped writing about economics and social policy. Instead, Kristol and Wittmann's think tank The Project for Conservative Reform, run out of the Hudson Institute are developing position papers for their movement. And Brooks's next book will aim to infuse national-greatness conservatism with some needed marrow.

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POSTERS COMMENTS If limp-wristed Kristol's national-greatness conservatism scorns the Christian right, jettisons the struggle to shrink government, and champions an idealistic foreign policy, in what meaningful, contemporary sense is it conservatism at all?

How, indeed, can this be called conservatism.

These elite plutocrats are disgusting---you'd think they'd be content w/ the power they now have. Not by a longshot. They will not rest until they wrest control of every political system and agency, and destroy the entire American political process, as we know it, in the bargain.

The Kristol crowd springs from the Everything-For-Us-Nothing-For-You wing of American politics.

No question, these types have their claws into lotsa politicians---they operate in secret, insinuating themselves into the political process advancing their super-secret agendas. Only a select few are in on it--we peons are left in the dark.

The elitist contempt they show for conservatism and all we represent will not go unchallenged. They can kick conservatives all they want---we are not going anywhere. This is our party and we're sticking with it. Kristol can go suck eggs.

[hockeyfan]

Oh, great. And look at what a great job they have done developing Mexico’s potential. sarc/

[Twinkie]

Well, Rudy and Judi are welcome to each other and appear to probably richly deserve each other. His ex-wives should thank their lucky stars they’re rid of him every day, as should her ex-husbands. Now we’re, hopefully, rid of both of them and should also thank our lucky stars.

[calcowgirl]

For reference:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973677/posts?page=8#8

Just wanted to clarify that other than a single phrase from me, kluged with words from someone else,
what you just posed are mostly quotes from 2001 articles in the
Times/U.K. and the New Republic.

I hate to be picky, but attributing stuff to me that I didn’t write doesn’t go down well.

[trisham]

I can only imagine what the two of them would have been like in the White House.

[xsmommy]

his dropping out was the highlight of this depressing primary campaign season for me. the thought of those two in the White House was abominable.

[trisham]

Agreed. I shudder to think of it.

[highball]

Giuliani's laying off people?

Hannity must be sweating bullets.

[Condor51]

*** The elitist contempt they show for conservatism and all we represent will not go unchallenged. They can kick conservatives all they want---we are not going anywhere. This is our party and we're sticking with it. Kristol can go suck eggs. ***

Bill Kristol makes my skin crawl. He and his fellow traveler neo-cons are lower than whale sh*t. Especially that &#%&face Richard Perle who was (cough) 'advising' Rummy and the DoD.

Those self serving maggots clamored for war in the middle east, egging Dubya and Rummy on at every turn. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran - they didn't care. Then when things got tough they abandoned Bush like he was a Leper. I read an article where Perle was interviewed during the tough times in Iraq and my head almost exploded. He's a treacherous bottom feeding pos.

A pox on all those Perpetual War neo-cons. IMO they should all be rounded up and exiled to some God forsaken, desolate, deserted island like St Helena (where Napoleon was sent the 2nd time). Let them play their GD Perpetual World Wars on a table top with toy soldiers!

[calcowgirl]

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080229/FREE/567748227/1057

(snip)

Next week Mr. Giuliani will also return to the eponymous consulting firm that he founded six years ago. In his absence the two firms have changed dramatically.

Bracewell & Giuliani, based in Houston, has grown hugely, opening offices as far afield as Dubai. Its New York outpost, which opened with three lawyers in 2005, boasts 50 attorneys today. Mr. Giuliani’s own office there has remained untouched, according New York Managing Partner Daniel Connolly.

The consulting firm, on the other hand, has shrunk. Although Mr. Giuliani calls it “more streamlined,” the fact is that the firm has suffered without its namesake, with its client list shrinking from 20 to 15, according to published reports.

The returning lawyer will split his New York time between both offices, as he did prior to his leave of absence. Next week will be spent in heavy re-orientation, getting up to speed on all matters. “He’s always been a quick study,” says Mr. Connolly.

He’s also not one to let a little defeat get him down. Instead, Mr. Giuliani insists that his failure to win a single presidential primary will not hurt him in the long run. “If anything, running for office has broadened me and made me better known,” he says.

All the politicking and national attention hasn’t dimmed his legal ambitions either. He admits that his favorite activity is still arguing cases in front of an appellate—or higher—court. The last time Mr. Giuliani faced the U.S. Supreme Court was in a 1983 bank robbery case, which he distinctly recalls winning by a tally of 8-1. “I would like to argue appeals again,” Mr. Giuliani says. “If there’s a good one around, let me know.”

[utahagen]

Giuliani’s campaign was badly run, for sure. However, I assert that there is no campaign for a pro-choice candidate for the Republican nomination that will succeed. The ONLY thing tethering conservatives like me to John McCain is that he is 90% pro-life; if Giuliani had won the nomination, I would be voting for a third party candidate, even if it meant watching Obama or HRC be elected.

[Squantos]

His wives and his family can’t trust him why did he think voters would ?

Doom on the POS !

Stay Safe Liz !

[Liz]

We know you didn’t write it-—but you have to be given credit for finding it and passing it on.

[Liz]

LOL-——Mexico and Kazakhstan-—Rooty ‘s money spots.

[DocH]

Good-to-go.

[Loyalist]

Giuliani had nothing to run on except 9/11. The base despised him even more than it did McCain. And he skipped the first four states in primary/caucus season. In hindsight, it’s a wonder he was even a serious contender for so long.

[Twinkie]

Hannity seemed to be pushing Rudy awfully hard at the first, like he was the only logical choice.

[Liz]

Hannity sunk to his lowest when he got duped by Rooty and Jooty Giuliani into doing an interview.

BGRND Judy had been rolled out on ABC’s 20/20 to introduce her to voters. Judy told viewers she would would sit in on Cabinet meetings——Rudy said he had no problem with it.

The backlash was swift and sure-—voters were repulsed that this bimbo not only wanted to be First Lady but the promiscuous trash who helped Rudy public humiliate his wife wanted a role in the US government.

Rudy’s campaign did a fast spin-—they issued statements saying Ru/Ju “laughed” at the Cabinet idea-—an idea the two had themselves carefully planned with 20/20-—the raison d’etre for their 20/20 interview.

The fallout was so bad, the two finally had to inveigle Hannity into doing an interview in which the two con artists SWORE that Jooty would not join the Cabinet.

[highball]

Hannity seemed to be pushing Rudy awfully hard at the first, like he was the only logical choice.

Hannity pushed Rudy hard until the day Rudy dropped out.

He's a paid shill. No real principles at all.

[MinuteGal]

Don't blame la femme.

Did anyone with even an ounce of little gray cells even entertain the thought that "Rudy for President" would play in Peoria?

He may have been big in New York City and New York state, but outside of that, his nationwide support was negligible and lightweight except for a few pockets here and there.

Remember, popularity and hard political support are two different things in big league races.

Leni

[Liz]

Did anyone with even an ounce of little gray cells even entertain the thought that "Rudy for President" would play in Peoria? Remember, popularity and hard political support are two different things in big league races.

Nice take, Leni.

Obviously, the Giulianis thought they were hot stuff.

She was quite visible all over the campaign trail. The stupid campaign even rolled out the bimbo on broadcast TV as a possible Cabinet member.....where she bombed bigtime.

The nasty slut even had the effontery to address a fund-raiser where she talked about dating Rudy (at the time he was a married father of two young children).

And who could forget the dumbest campaign idea---staging a cell phone call while he was addressing the NRA?

[Liz]

Hannity seemed to be pushing Rudy awfully hard.........

Fox-TV is the official house organ for neopukes---with Fox pundit Billy Kristol and his daddy as Head Pukes.

Keep in mind the Kristol coterie are architects of the current admin's most-failed policies including amnesty and the trillion dollar bleeding of tax dollars into Mideast hellholes.

Kicking conservatives to the curb, and religious cleansing of the Repub party are the Kristol Crowd's longtime obsessions.

These foul cohorts spring from the Everything-For-Us-Nothing-For-You wing of US politics.

The Kristol Crowd's first pick---RINO Giuliani---flopped like a blowout on a jalopy with cheap tires. Now that Rudy's deadweight, the Everything For Us crowd is chaining McCain to these issues.

Watch McCain closely---notice how his posture changes whenever he mentions handing over the SW to illegals (amnesty), The 100 Year War, and kicking conservatives to the curb------that's Billy Kristol and the Boys tightening McCain's leash.