Posted on 10/18/2009 1:42:53 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
If Giuliani is not elected governor next year, the Republican party will be completely irrelevant in NY State for a generation. He can’t win without Bloomberg’s enthusiastic support in NYC. It’s as simple as that. Hate ‘em both, but hold your nose and support them anyway.
I wouldn't care, if they would keep out of national politics.
I don't know why you bother wasting your time on this website if you feel that way. 2% of our senators are from NY.
Sorry, I just can't get enthusiastic about anything that happens up there, or comes from up there.
I really don’t think he’ll run for governor. He doesn’t want to lose any prestige in the state where he was “America’s mayor”.
I do wonder, in hindsight, if Rudy would've beaten Obama.
Good question.
McCain, for his faults, has a pro-life and pro-2A record, which made it tolerable for folks (myself included) to hold their noses and vote for.
IMO, Rudy wouldn't have gotten the core conservative vote, but would have gotten the uneducated independents who just remembered him as the "9/11 guy". He probably would have picked Sanford as his running mate, as well, which would have sounded good, but look how that turned out.
Precisely the people who went for Obama.
Hindsight is 20/20. I remember back in mid '06 being absolutely certain the race would be a nailbiter between Giuliani and Hillary. I believe Rudy would've soundly beaten Obama but this would've marked the end of conservatism.
I can't tell if you are being funny, or if you are trying to make a serious point, so I will answer your post as if it were the latter. If you are mocking the title "America's Mayor," have at it. But be aware that it was the liberal press who awarded it to him, not friends of Rudy, or Republican operatives. In France, I remember, they were calling him "Rudy the Rock" after 9/11. And he deserved it. I you don't remember him doing a superhuman job of holding the city together, and indeed, easing the fears of an entire nation in the first few weeks after the attack, then your long term memory sucks.
Meanwhile, if you honestly don't think he's running, you're in pretty small company. Everyone who pays attention to NY politics (including a guy I know named Rudy Giuliani) is postive he will run. The only thing that would keep him out is if Andrew Cuomo runs, in which case Giuliani would have zero chance of winning.
“Rudy stumps for the republican candidate and we get bitchy over that ? Why ?”
Bloomberg is a Republican? Seems more a wannabe overlord with delusions of grandeur to me. Actually, that’s Rudy too.
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