The greatest tactical mistake in recent politics — Giuliani’s inexplicable decision to avoid the early primaries — is about to destroy his once hopeful presidential prospects. That so superb a candidate should be destroyed by the political ignorance of his handlers is truly tragic.
If Rudy finishes third — and he’s well behind McCain — the voters who would have backed him will desert to the Arizona Senator in droves all throughout the Super Tuesday states. Giuliani will go the way of Joe Lieberman and Wesley Clark, the two 2004 candidates who eschewed Iowa and New Hampshire.
It is truly sad to see Rudy go down, a genuine American hero, but such are the wages of bad advice!
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I, for one, left Giuliani a while ago because of his many liberal views and his messy personal life. When your own children won’t speak to you, I have 4 and 16 grandchildren, then there is something seriously off-track in your life.
As a New Jerseyite, surrounded by illegals, I have decided to cast my primary and hopefully general-election vote for Mitt Romney.
As it turns out, Rudy is a one-trick pony…9/11. But that was then and this is now. I have changed, the country has changed and certainly the world has changed since 2001.
I am changing to Mitt Romney, as I suspect many other Concservatives are. Dick Morris is sounding more and more like the elite media…always pushing Johnny boy. Ain’t gonna happen!
Just my humble. jb
He was a frontrunner, but now McCain is and he’s not really a conservative either. I was leaning to Romney, I will vote for him in MA on Feb. 5.
A lot of us conservatives would have like Duncan Hunter, he is a true conservative, too bad he couldn’t get his campaign going. Maybe VP?
sarasota2001: On the contrary, I think that Morris is as reliably objective as he ever was. The fact that he shows clear admiration for Giuliani (if not for the ex-mayor’s character, then at least for his once-stellar chances at winning the Republican nomination) while forecasting his defeat evinces this.
Re. Giuliani’s incommunicado son and daughter, I don’t assign much weight to that. I don’t know enough about their personal lives to do that, though anyone who’s had a mother knows how much influence she can have on her children vs. their father (and a divorced woman is typically a spiteful creature, indeed).
I do find it amusing that you impugn Morris for allegedly copycatting the elite media by pushing McCain, while you yourself take the elite media stance of poo-pooing Giuliani because his kids aren’t talking to him as much as you and the media elites would like.
His son, who is actually still speaking to his dad despite the media hype, has stated that he isn’t accompanying his father on the campaign trail because he’ll be too busy with his golf game.
His daughter, who knows what is going on there? She’s still a teen-ager, and we all know how rebellious they typically are, especially when their parents aren’t loony leftists. The fact that she’s a New Yorker makes me doubly suspicious of the legitimacy of her beefs with her father.
– Milo
You can switch to Mitt, but you’ll be living under President Hillary. At least with Rudy blue states including NY, NJ, PA, DE, MN, CA will be in play. Rudy has a shot. Tell me which state(s) Mitt or McCain will win that weren’t red in 2000/2004 - oh and you can assume Ohio will be blue in 2008. Plus Hillary will win AK. So by all means stand on your principles and thank you for handing us President Hillary.