Giuliani Plans 2008 Fundraiser, Sets Up Team

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's presidential machinations are getting more serious. He's planning a $2,100 per ticket fundraiser at the Marriott Marquis on December 19 and he's hired Dubya's CFO from his 2004 campaign.

Sandra Pack was Bush's treasury director in 2000 and had been working as an assistant secretary in the Treasury Department. The Daily News reports, "Experts surmised that a veteran like Pack would never give up a steady job and dedicate herself to Giuliani, a Republican, if she didn't think he was serious about a White House run."

The Politicker notes that former Mayor Ed Koch thinks that Giuliani will actually run as VP under John McCain. Which makes some sense, because Giuliani will never be embraced by the whole GOP, even with 9/11.

Painting of Rudy Giuliani by Zhou Tiehai; it was shown in the Whitney's American Effect exhibit in 2003

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By Jen Chung in News on December 6, 2006 1:54 PM

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Darrin

Rudy: Talk to us about the radios, Rudy! Talk to us about the radios! Why did you give a sweetheart, no-bid contract for faulty radios to a crony? The Fired Daepartment didn't want them. They couldn't talk with the Police over them. They didn't work inside buildings.

The blood of dozens and dozens of REAL 9-11 hearos is on your hands, Rudy. You belong in prison for what you did, you self-rightesuss, pompous asshole!

Tim N.

Yes, a lot of people will vote for him. The 9/11 Whore was Rove before Rove... in other words, scare the shit out of enough people to get them to think that YOU are the only answer, and that those that think differently from you are wrongheaded, unpatriotic nambypamby softheads who are too intellectual or too eggheaded to understand that only YOU have all the right answers.

He would have made a good nun. Sister Rudy, the 9/11 Whore.

Traci

Coincidence that this story runs immediately following the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer story?

Paul

A lot of people would vote for Rudy G. !!

ed_Extinct

*McCain/Giuliani 2008*

Tom

John McCain can't win, Giuliani can... it will come down to that. McCain has aged horribly in the last few years.

And, frankly, this whole "The base won't support Giuliani" is silly. If "the party" has a choice between Rudy and Hillary, they'll pick Rudy. The party knows another Bush-type will not win, so they have to go moderate. Going moderate, they only have one candidate with a chance to win some of the standard democrat strong-holds.

Giuliani has a legitimate shot to win New York and some of New England. That's something McCain's got no shot at.

Rich

Koch's notion of Rudy as VP to McCain is ridiculous:

1. If McCain can somehow win the nomination, the last running mate in the world he would need or want is a fellow liberal Republican.

(much better would be a conservative, to turn out the base)

2. Conservatives have come to hate McCain, and he is highly unlikely to win the nomination (though he would potentially do well in the general election.)

3. Agree with above post, Giulini highly unlikely to play 2nd fiddle; also, although clearly too socially liberal for most conservatives, his strong 9/11 leadership and lack of a Washington 'establishment' background gives him a shot at the nomination.

We're Number 2

Guiliani won't win because he won't stay in long enough - and he won't stay in long enough because he'll make a deal to be VP. McCain is going to be the GOP nominee. He would have won in 2000 if not for Karl Rove. I don't see a repeat of the South Carolina fiasco. And McCain has name recognition with voters and doners. The big corporate doners don't want another W.

As for the twice divorced New Yorker thing, it may be a turnoff in the South but Hillary Clinton fixes that problem. And the Mountain States and Midwest won't give a damn.

Kojak

He COULD win, but hes not going to.

A Pro-Gun Control, Pro-Choice Republican as President whos more Liberal them some Democrats???

Me thinks not.

Jen

I'm not sure if I agree with Koch, that Giuliani would play second fiddle, but he may need some stronger coattails to ride. A twice-divorced New Yorker is a scary prospect for some.