[TomGuy]

Where are all the rooty supporters? This place used to be over run with ‘em.

Yeh. I used to get skewered every time I asked: Why did Giuliani really drop out of the Senate race against Hillary? Kerry had the same health situation just months before he managed to run for the presidency.


[Had Giuliani run and won that Senate seat, Hillary would be nothing more than a footnote in history alongside Geraldine Ferraro. One could say that Giuliani's dropping out of the race actually created politician Hillary.]

[sittnick]

Yeh. I used to get skewered every time I asked: Why did Giuliani really drop out of the Senate race against Hillary? Kerry had the same health situation just months before he managed to run for the presidency.

An important point. Thanks to Giuliani running and then dropping out (largely over his weird marital situation, which at the time was too weird for New York State), are one chance to dispatch the infant Damiené was wasted. Lazio was a weak candidate who ran a weaker campaign.

Now what other Democrat senatorial campaign turned out to be a cakewalk because of a candidate's late withdrawal over scandal? Answer: Barack Obama was the beneficiary of Jack Ryan's very late withdrawal due to a very high profile scandal that marred his squeaky clean image. So, the two Dem front-runners both got their positions due (at least in part) to Republican self-destruction.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

I’d buy that