My report from the scene at the Ronald Reagan Library.
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January 30th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
It amazes me that Rudy has the media so bamboozled that they buy his silly fairy tale that he had a Florida Strategy. Fact is “America’s Mayor” spent 50 million bucks and in places like Iowa and New Hampshire where it got him nowhere so he decided on a Florida redout. But as Randy or any other New Yorker could have told you – to know him is to loath him and exposure just sealed the deal.
Plus Rudy has the world’s biggest closet. He needs it to contain all those skeletons. Well I was disheartened by the news of JRE’s exit but there was Rudy 911 to bring some cheer!
January 30th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
I know you go to Alan Hoffenbloom for a guide into GOP world but it strikes me as counterintuitive that the rabid right would stay home in a Clinton – McCain match. That would sure change Rush and Sean’s mind I betcha!
January 30th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Word is that Gov. Schwarzenegger is going to endorse John McCain. It appears that this will be the first year that no Republicans will be running for President.
January 30th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Marc, see the item on HUFFPO from POLITICO. Russert invited Romney and McCain on MTP this Sunday to duke it out mano a mano. Mitt said Yes, immediately but “Honest John” Declined! Oh! Oh! Mister Straight talk may be tired! After all he’s a senior citizen and needs his rest!
January 30th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Well, I’m a member in good standing of the rabid Right, and i don’t know how I’d feel about McCain?Clinton. We’ll see.
By the way, Marc (or anyone), isn’t it about time for the Clintons to produce the fruit of their oppo research on Obama? Friday maybe?
January 31st, 2008 at 4:39 am
“It amazes me that Rudy has the media so bamboozled that they buy his silly fairy tale that he had a Florida Strategy.”
It wasn’t just a Florida Strategy. His defense for taking a low profile in the earliest contests: he had a Fifty State Strategy!
Did he? Well, he had Fifty State Money. For a while, anyway. ($50 million, divide by 50 — hey, I don’t need a calculator to see that he had more per state than Huckabee has had for *any* state!)
But I really don’t think Rudy wanted to go through a whole frickin’ presidential campaign just to beat Hillary, any more (and in fact much less) than he wanted to go through an entire Senate seat run just to beat Hillary, 8 years ago. Remember when he turned his plane around in Iowa, because … he had a massive headache? Hey, Rudy: running for President is a massive headache! Didn’t anybody tell you?
He rode so high in the polls, for so long, but I could just never see President Rudy somehow. And when it came right down to it, not very many others could, either. As one reporter remarked, with the tiny crowds he was turning out on Florida tarmacks, he might as well have had his supporters flown to *him*, rather than flying to *them*. As another reporter put it, he went to Florida for the same reason so many other New Yorkers do: to die. Oh please, God, let it be true! I really don’t want to see months and months of a McCain-Giuliani campaign in the fall. And I don’t even want the thought of such a pairing crossing my mind between now and the conventions.
Huckabee accompanying on bass guitar, while McCain croons Hanoi Hilton Blues — that, I could handle. But McCain-Giuliani, no matter how sobersided, just seems like some Ralph Steadman tableau.
January 31st, 2008 at 9:50 am
“Ralph Steadman tableau”
Nice.