Tonight, Rudy Guiliani successfully began his run for the White House.
It was an ignominious, though perhaps effective, start for him. It’s a shame he had to start by making stuff up outta the box.
Guiliani said (quoting from his prepared text here, he may have changed the wording slightly when he said it), “Since September 11th President Bush has remained rock solid. It doesn’t matter how he is demonized. It doesn’t matter what the media does to ridicule him or misinterpret him or defeat him.”
First, I welcome any of the Right Wingers here to demonstrate precisely when or where “the media” has “misinterpreted” George W. Bush. Please feel free to point us towards one of those “misinterpretations” here in Comments. Be specific. It shouldn’t be hard, right? With such a “Liberal” media after all!
Hopefully, you’ll show us a misinterpretation akin to the way Dick Cheney and the rest of the Foot Soldiers misinterpreted Kerry’s “sensitive war” comments. If you do, I’ll join you in condemning anything that appalling.
But speaking of “misinterpreting” folks, Rudy cynically then went on to “ridicule and misinterpret” John Kerry by saying, “My point about John Kerry being inconsistent is best described in his own words when he said, ‘I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.'”
Anyone who bothered to pay attention (that would not include you Fake Conservatives, of course) knows that Kerry voted for the 87 billion when the bill included a responsible amendment that specified how the 87 billion would be paid for. That’s something that honest conservatives (not Fake Conservatives) would appreciate. He voted against the bill when it was to be paid for by future borrowing on the national debt.
In case you Fake Conservatives haven’t noticed, America now carries the Greatest Debt in the History of the World as created by George W. Bush for the Biggest Federal Government ever known to Mankind, also courtesy of George W. Bush and a Republican House and Senate.
John Kerry, on the other hand, supports “Pay as You Go”. In other words, if it can’t be paid for, he won’t propose it. Something that an intellectually honest Republican should be in favor of. Or at least demanding from your own Tax Cut and Spend party.
But anyway, like Rudy Guiliani who supports Adultery, Abortion Rights, Gay Rights, endorsed Democrat Mario Cuomo for Governor and is largely more of a Democrat than a Republican, Fake Conservatives — and presumably the Republican Party that supports them — are more interested, in politics and power than in standing for anything.
The important note from tonight though; Rudy earned his ’04 and/or ’08 endorsement for President of the United States. If you Republicans (and us non-Republicans) are lucky, you may get him for your nominee. Though you Fake Conservatives are gonna have to keep flip-flopping to support him.
No biggie. You’re used to it.
Rudy changed his speech where he said the U.S. was certain of victory in the war on terror. Since Mr. Bush said today that he didn’t think we can win the war on terror, Rudy the hatchet man had to alter his certainty.
We shall see if the librul media of "USA Today" prints Moore’s article when they did not print Coulters.
Paul…you don’t know shit about anything do you?Ann Coulter, the woman who has said that we should kill Muslims and convert them to Christianity and that "Democrats hate God" was replaced…
let me say that again because Rush didn’t tell you this, Coulter was REPLACED by conservative columnist for the National Review Jonah Goldberg.
There the liberal media goes again, replacing a conservative columnist with another conservative columnist. The shame!!!!!!!!!
If, as Anne Coulter refused to do, Michael Moore is willing to allow the newspaper to edit his column (as newspapers with editors do), I’m sure they will print Moore’s column.
I’m sure you forgot to mention, btw, that Coulter was replaced by that raging Libral Jonah Goldberg. Or, more likely, you had no clue about it.
Also, btw, if USA Today is the "libral media", then I guess nothing short of the Mein Kampf Daily would likely satisfy you.
Brad,
i am not sure that Rudy has a chance in hell of being the Republican nominee. Sure he talks a good game, he even managed to lump Iraq and Libya in with al Qaeda. He did so by quoting Bush "the people who knocked this building down will hear you" and then saying that they heard from us in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. Pretty damned dishonest. Not that dishonesty would lose him a republican nomination. But you have to remember as wildly power hungry as these guys are the avante garde of the thermidor have to throw them the red meat and that’s just not Giulliani. Sure he’s "America’s mayor" but he wears a dress, has lived with and kissed gay guys. Now i dont particularly give a damn about this BUT i am not your average neandercon. He’s been savaged by this from every far right group and i dont see them letting up. Hopefully such a run would splinter the party and alienate the far right but i think thats the only good that would accomplish.
I lived in NYC during Rudy. He had a %40 pre-911 rating. I remember Amadou Diallo. I remember Donna Hanover. He would NOT win a national election.
jaime,
i am a veteran of the Dinkens front lines. i remember slogging through that fight (1989) in which Giuliani lost. i was in seminary working on the first masters degree and i remember precisely Giuliani’s thug tactics.
It’s funny, when Rudy derided appeasers he forgot to mention Reagan and Beirut. That was strength. Packing it in in Lebanon was sure taking it to them.