.jpg) Rudy Giuliani |
The choices for president in 2008 may not be the greatest, but there is one silver lining under the dark cloud of the election year.
Rudy Giuliani, the pick of so many know-it-alls as the only guy who could win, is going nowhere.
As of this writing, he is the only Republican candidate besides Ron Paul not to win anything.
And with good reason. He is totally unacceptable to the Republican Party base. His positions on the issues may have made him a popular mayor of New York, but they are so far out of the Republican mainstream as to make him little more than a fringe candidate in this primary season.
Let me tell you honestly how I feel about Rudy Giuliani.
He was probably the best mayor New York is capable of having – at least until the millennial kingdom comes.
He really did make a difference. He cleaned up my hometown in ways that were almost unimaginable before his rise to power. Future mayors can learn a lot by studying Giuliani’s approach to crime, which dropped precipitously during his reign in Gracie Mansion.
But, and it’s a big but, Giuliani was never presidential timber.
He first disappointed many Republicans by choosing not to oppose Hillary Rodham Clinton in her first bid for the U.S. Senate. Giuliani would have had a good chance of preventing Hillary from ever achieving national political star status by trouncing her in her first run for elective office. But he chose not to do so. Had he made that run, and succeeded, election 2008 might have had a completely different look and feel.
Nevertheless, Giuliani persuaded many in the East Coast Republican establishment, including some major radio talkers who should have known better, that he was the real rock star in race this year. The election was his to lose, we were told.
Well, he lost it.
And it seemed he did so without even getting out of the starting gate.
Even I would not have guessed how easily he would go down.
He folded like a house of cards.
Let this be a lesson to the GOP establishment in the future.
You cannot expect mainstream Republican voters to choose a Democrat to be their candidate. And make no mistake about it, Giuliani is a Democrat.
- He’s pro-abortion
- He’s anti-gun
- He’s a big-government guy
- He raises taxes
- He wears dresses in public
- He presided over a sanctuary city
- He supports amnesty
- He thinks “virtual border fences” will keep real lawbreakers out
- He supports special rights for people based on their sexual proclivities
Giuliani even told people back in the 1990s that he had very few areas of disagreement with Bill Clinton.
He even told people he was not really a Republican after getting elected as mayor.
Not only did this record not resonate with Republican voters this political season, but Ron Paul whipped his behind in several contests involving real voters.
I say good riddance to Rudy – and to all other phony Republicans who try to emulate him in the future.
Rudy fooled only himself – and a few people with loud megaphones who found out they don’t have all that much influence with the American people when it comes time to selecting a president.
That’s the good news.
The bad news is there are more phonies left in this race. And some of them disguise their views and their records better than Giuliani.
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