rssWill Rudy Fail Again in 2012?
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 1:45 pm
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America’s mayor talks to the Dallas Morning News about whether he’ll run for president in 2012.
I’m keeping my options open is how I put it – meaning who knows? Things outside yourself determine whether you can run for president and then whether you can win in running for president. Before I would decide to run for president again, I’d have to see those things outside myself lined up correctly.
This is actually a pretty revealing answer.A serious Republican candidate would have found a way to include his religious faith or his family in this explanation: He will run if his children are okay with it, after he consults with his creator. Giuliani only wants to see “things outside myself lined up correctly.” It’s the ham-fistedness that led him to the most disastrous presidential primary run in decades, watching a massive national poll lead — and competitive status in states like New Hampshire — fall apart and end with with a string of 5th and 7th place finishes. He spent $60 million in order to win one delegate to the Republican National Convention. And it’s really impossible to imagine that Republican donors would indulge Giuliani in another presidential run.
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Comment posted September 24, 2009 @ 6:37 pm
Three whole sentences (well, one is a question) and no references to…
He's not running. Yet.
Comment posted September 24, 2009 @ 9:40 pm
t’s the ham-fistedness that led him to the most disastrous presidential primary run in decades, watching a massive national poll lead — and competitive status in states like New Hampshire — fall apart and end with with a string of 5th and 7th place finishes.
Giuliani was a good test subject in 2008, to see if a candidate actually could choose to avoid the early primaries and still be a contender. Turns out it doesn't happen, and it wasn't helped by the fact that the more people got to know Giuliani as a candidate, the less they liked them – his candidacy started melting away as soon as the spotlight turned back to Florida and the serious contenders showed up.
He didn't even go down like a contender, after a fierce fight, either. His candidacy more or less just melted away, until only a handful of people were showing up at his plane stops, and there was no money coming in.
Comment posted September 25, 2009 @ 5:26 am
Two weeks ago on The View, Barbara Walters asked Giuliani's wife, Judith, if Rudy should run for President in 2012.
Judith Giuliani responded, saying: ” I think Rudy would be great at anything he does, and he knows I'll support him whatever makes him happy.”
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