Giuliani's In for 2008

By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Mon Nov 13, 2006 at 07:14:33 PM EST
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Rudy's running in 2008.

The former mayor filed papers to create the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Exploratory Committee, Inc., creating a panel that would allow him to raise money for a White House run and travel the country.

How many scandals does he think he can overcome? As I wrote in 2004, "Guiliani, Could You Just Gag?"

If anyone is the personnificaton of the opposite of freedom, it's former federal prosecutor and Mayor Rudy Guiliani. Herr Guiliani is a more apt name for him. How could anyone just not want to retch listening to Guiliani tonight as he tried to sell himself and the Republicans as the party that would bring freedom to the world.

Guiliani cleaned up the streets in New York by arresting the poor, the homeless, the squeegee cleaners, the mentally ill and the addicted. Yes, New York became cleaner, but at what price? At the price of freedom....which he now fraudulently pretends to champion. Sickening.

Not that I feel strongly about him or anything. (sarcasm.)

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Run Rudy, Run! (none / 0) (#1)
by Ernesto Del Mundo on Mon Nov 13, 2006 at 07:19:19 PM EST

Hah. This is gonna be most excellent to see him get ripped apart by the Religious Right in the Southern primaries. Can't wait til '08!

That graphic ... (none / 0) (#2)
by Edger on Mon Nov 13, 2006 at 07:27:30 PM EST

...makes me want to slap him silly, since trying to slap some sense into him would be a fruitless effort. But then I guess that was the intention of it. ;-)

this should be entertaining (none / 0) (#3)
by cpinva on Mon Nov 13, 2006 at 08:27:54 PM EST

watch the republican party try to twist and turn its way out of this! lol

the all corruption, all the time party, ya gotta love it!

Rudy, thy name is Thug (none / 0) (#4)
by scribe on Mon Nov 13, 2006 at 09:16:41 PM EST

The man is a thug, pure and simple.

Which is why I call him Thuggiani.

Oh, great... (none / 0) (#5)
by Gabriel Malor on Mon Nov 13, 2006 at 09:20:54 PM EST

Let the strained punning begin!

Announcers voice:

From the people who brought you:
Shrub!
and
rethuglican!
presentiiiiiing: Thugliani!

: Thuggiani, not Thugliani.... (none / 0) (#7)
by scribe on Mon Nov 13, 2006 at 10:33:56 PM EST

because, to my ear, the latter just doesn't roll off the tongue as easily as the former.
Of course, we could also call him "cousin f'er", but that's another story. It would surely go a long ways towards making him more popular in the deeper red parts of the South.

Excellent! (none / 0) (#6)
by 1980Ford on Mon Nov 13, 2006 at 09:32:06 PM EST

Maybe we will have a real debate on crime and criminology then. Did his "broken window" policy work or is all that a bunch of bull? Is the only safety net prison? Or is that a bunch of bull? Do we prefer fascism or liberty? Or is liberty just a bunch of bull?

There hasn't been a real debate on any of these issues for over 20 years. And what else has he got? Nothing.

Is he running as (none / 0) (#8)
by Patrick on Mon Nov 13, 2006 at 11:33:41 PM EST

a Rep or a Dem?

Rudy's campaign is abortive (none / 0) (#9)
by chemoelectric on Mon Nov 13, 2006 at 11:47:02 PM EST

I don't think Giuliani has a chance to get the 'Republican' nomination, because I am pretty sure he is straight, with nothing in the closet. His only hope is pedophilia, but that seems like a long shot.

: then again... (none / 0) (#11)
by Edger on Tue Nov 14, 2006 at 05:26:10 AM EST

...there's always beast-iality, and Rude-ee seems to need more and weirder forms of stimulation.

: Nothing in his closet, hmmm? (none / 0) (#13)
by scribe on Tue Nov 14, 2006 at 03:05:11 PM EST

Check out this YouTube of him, in really bad drag, getting hit on by (and slapping the face of) Trump.
This guy, per today's Daily News, has as one of the "cons" to his run (among Repugs, his party) that for a while he lived with two gay guys and a chihuahua. (that was after his second wife put him out of the Mayoral residence).

What a drag! (none / 0) (#10)
by Quaker in a Basement on Mon Nov 13, 2006 at 11:48:13 PM EST

The religious right is going to looooove those photos of Rudy in drag. (OK, it was all for a laugh, but evangelicals still aren't gonna like it.)

He's (none / 0) (#12)
by Che's Lounge on Tue Nov 14, 2006 at 10:25:05 AM EST

a war profiteer. Is that who we want running the country.

I hope (none / 0) (#14)
by kdog on Tue Nov 14, 2006 at 03:24:22 PM EST

he gets the nomination...because he simply cannot win. Half of NYC still can't stand him...and this is his base! Half the GOP can't stand him...and that's his party!