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Hmm. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is going around the country to help raise money for other Republican candidates. The AP reports that he was in Cleveland for Senator Mike DeWine last night, and today, he'll be in Arkansas for Asa Hutchinson (running for governor) as well as in Pennsylvania for Senator Rick Santorum and the All-Star Game. Then tomorrow he'll be at fundraisers for Lynn Swann, running for governor of Pennsylvania, and Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich. Yeah, we did the "Ugh, Santorum, really?" too, but apparently Giuliani is keen to support him because of his commitment to national security. Okay, we get that national security is a big issue, but being able to view other Americans as people is a big issue to us. The scuttlebutt is that the fact that Rudy is visiting Arkansas, Ohio and Pennsylvania means that he's strongly considering a presidential run.
The AP article pits Giuliani's controversies (being pro-gay rights, pro-choice, married three times, friend/patron of Bernard Kerik) against his golden hour as "America's Mayor," but we imagine Giuliani is way more palatable from Mayor Bloomberg as a would-be candidate, though a Bloomberg war chest would be able to face Hillary's campaign trove. And there's chestnut of a quote from the Quinnipiac Poll's Maurice Carroll: "Rudy Giuliani on 9/11 became America's mayor and he's never going to lose it. Kerik could become a serial killer, and it wouldn't matter. Giuliani may lose elections at some point, but he'll never lose that identity."
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Giuliani was a good president right after September 11th, when the real one took a vacation, but I think that was enough.
I don't see hime going to the Southern States where we know the Real Giuliani.
All them other states are suckers.
It may take a third party guy again to mess up the 2008 election.
No way does America elect a short balding guy with a lisp to the presidency.
Yuck, now I need to wash the santorum off of me...
i would love for him to run. he cleaned up my neighborhood in the bronx big time. but he won't even get out of the nomination stages which is unfortunate, since he could return the republican party back to some level of normalcy and away from the jerry farwell and pat robertsons of the world. who surprisingly john mccain is aligning himself with.
I hope he runs, too.
Just show his foul mouth ladened protest at City Hall with the PBA is enough to get middle America nervous. And, subsequent riot of cops jumping over barriers. OH and his lisp yelling out "bullshit" IN city Hall was classic.
"View other Americans as people"? That is lame, even by shallow Gothamist standards. Why don't you elaborate?