Posted on 04/02/2010 2:53:19 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The Shark Tank was hinting yesterday about a major endorsement to come next week, although I wasn’t sure if that was an April Fools joke or not. And if it wasn’t, I figured the obvious suspects were Palin or, more importantly, Jeb Bush.
Surprise.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani will campaign with Senate candidate Marco Rubio.
The two will appear together Monday in Miami, where Giuliani is expected to endorse Rubio in the Republican primary against Gov. Charlie Crist.
In a statement released by the Rubio campaign, Giuliani said, “Marco Rubio is one of the Republican Party’s true rising stars. He’s a bold leader who will bring common sense to Washington where it’s badly needed.”
Why is one of the party’s most famous RINOs siding against the moderate in the race? Let’s join Mark Halperin and John Heilemann on the campaign trail in 2007…
In July, ‘07, Crist visited with Giuliani in the Hamptons: “I’d like to support you,” Crist said.
The next day, Giuliani shared the news with his aide Tony Carbonetti. “I think we got him; it went very well,” Giuliani said.
Carbonetti was familiar enough with Giuliani’s lexicon to know what that meant: Rudy thought it was a done deal. Seeing Giuliani’s strong poll numbers in Florida, Crist had apparently concluded that Rudy was the horse to ride. Carbonetti, a no-nonsense fixer who’d been Rudy’s chief of staff at City Hall, followed up with Crist’s main political guy, George LeMieux, flying to Tallahassee to meet with him and plan the endorsement.
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I will never forgive Crist for his endorsement of McCain- our state went nuts when he did it and fools by the dozen lined up to vote for McCain.
I’d rather have had either Rudy OR Mitt. McCain was the worst candidate ever- including Bob Dole.
I find it hard to imagine a republican candidate that can’t even make a respectable showing among a collection of the weakest candidates possible in a presidential primary, that if they all died and he got to run against the actual winner of the hard fought Democrat primary that the Rep would suddenly turn into a wonderful campaigner and sweep the national voters off their feet.
That kind of loser would not win the election and he would wipe out the ticket, all the way down the list as Republicans remained indifferent and staying home.
Why would you even fantasize about a candidate that is too liberal to make a showing in a Republican primary, winning the nomination anyway?
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