Rudy Giuliani is dangerous. Dangerous because he can win. Dangerous because if he wins he'll make Ann Coulter look like a diplomat. Dangerous because he was incompetent as mayor of NYC.
The only practical question is, how to stop him? Rely on pictures of Rudy in drag making the rounds in the GOP primary? Think again.
Author Robert Polner says Dems need to go straight after his supposed strength. 9/11:
As Rosaleen will tell anyone willing to listen, the vintage radios that Sean and 342 other city firefighters carried at their deaths on 9/11 were known to be defective. The faulty radios were the target of years of scathing internal assessments, bureaucratic wrangling, and accusations of bidding favoritism, and still the Giuliani administration had never replaced them.
http://www.salon.com/...
Here, in the radios fiasco, was government paralysis at its worst, the sort he frothed about as a reformist candidate for mayor. The city's firefighters were sent into the towers without the basic ability to send or receive maydays. The buck stops with Rudy, who knew that the same radios had faltered when the World Trade Center was first bombed by terrorists in 1993, the year he was elected mayor.
http://www.salon.com/...
Rudy's incompetence before 9/11 killed firefighters. That's a serious charge. Does it explain Rudy's unquestioning support for Bush? His apologies for incompetence?
Until this week, Mr. Giuliani’s views on Iraq were not well known. But on this trip he made clear, though never mentioning President Bush by name, that he firmly supported the administration’s current strategy, including Mr. Bush’s decision to send more than 20,000 additional combat troops there.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
Is it too early to start asking the really relevant questions? Like, is it true you want to turn Abu Ghraib into a restaurant/theme park?
For those who say "nothing to worry about," the Christian right hates Rudy, think again.
First, this news:
The Pew Research Center examined how often early frontrunners for the presidential nomination actually win the right to represent their party in the general election. Pew found that "early frontrunners for the Republican nomination in most of the past seven open contests have gone on to win the nomination."
http://pewresearch.org/...
McCain's sinking. Mitt has Mormon problems. Some evangelicals are getting really worried about losing in 2008 after the ass-whupping the GOP got in 2006. Read about the crazies here There's even evidence that the Christian Right is losing its stranglehold on the GOP in states where they've been huge: Religious Iowans Lose Political Clout
Rudy can make it past the GOP primary. If he does, watch out.