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As if it were any question, the NY State GOP will endorse Rudy Giuliani for President. GOP chairman for NY State Joseph Mondello is endorsing Rudy today in Manhattan, and he'll go to Albany for an event with State Senate Majority leader Joseph Bruno. Last week, Governor Eliot Spitzer endorsed Senator Hillary Clinton, but how likely do you think it'll be an actual Hillary vs. Rudy matchup in 2008?
At any rate, NY State republicans are "pining" for a Rudy presidential ticket, according to the Empire Zone. State Senator Serphin R. Maltese said that Rudy's draw "can't be calculated": "Those ethnic Democrats, wherever they are, are going to be attracted to Rudy — there’s no question about it.” The Empire Zone says ethnic Democrats are those who identify with immigrant backgrounds, and when we think of Rudy, one immigrant in particular that comes to mind is Amadou Diallo.
And state Assembly minority leader Joseph Tedisco said having Giuliani would "energize" the state GOP, "He put this city back on track and he got us through 9/11. He’ll bring our base out.” Maybe, but we predict it'll take the NY State GOP at least two more election cycles to get its act together, let along inspire the base to come out.
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There are other candidates for President. Some of them are even from New York.
Was a time when this would have been a big question. Rudy has always been more liberal than the state republican party. And he endorsed Mario Cuomo over eventual gubernatorial winner, George Pataki, in 1994. The state republican party was more or less run by D'Amato at that point and D'Amato had hand-picked Pataki from obscurity. Rudy thought Pataki would get his clock cleaned and didn't want Cuomo to hold it against him and cut funding for the city. Moreover, Rudy's endorsement of Cuomo was guided by political consultant David Garth who was also an adviser to Cuomo.
The fact remains that, despite the state republican party's clining to Giuliani in a bid to remain relevant, Giuliani is seriously lacking in republican party bona fides and this will ultimately be his downfall at the convention or primary, if he gets that far.
Fun fact: Bloomberg considered backing a Democrat to run against Serphin Maltese.
Was a time when this would have been a big question. Rudy has always been more liberal than the state republican party. And he endorsed Mario Cuomo over eventual gubernatorial winner, George Pataki, in 1994. The state republican party was more or less run by D'Amato at that point and D'Amato had hand-picked Pataki from obscurity. Rudy thought Pataki would get his clock cleaned and didn't want Cuomo to hold it against him and cut funding for the city. Moreover, Rudy's endorsement of Cuomo was guided by political consultant David Garth who was also an adviser to Cuomo.
The fact remains that, despite the state republican party's clining to Giuliani in a bid to remain relevant, Giuliani is seriously lacking in republican party bona fides and this will ultimately be his downfall at the convention or primary, if he gets that far.
I'd like to see Rudy in a debate with Ron Paul just to show how little he knows about foreign policy.
He never had the magnanimity to be mayor of all the people of New York (911 notwithstanding); and even though the bar is at an all time low after Bush, (and especially because of that) Giuliani for president is just an awful idea. Just what we need, someone with the diplomatic sensibility of a prosecutor in the White House.