Oh Yeah

Guiliani is out too. Whee. Was he ever really in it?

Is Rudy Toast?

Slipping in the polls in the face of the Willard Romney juggernaut, the last thing Rudy Giuliani needed was bad news. Well, he got that in spades today from the Politico (yeah, I know, but even a stopped clock, etc etc.....) which revealed that Rudy had been sporting off to Long Island to schtup then future wife Judith (while still married to now former wife Donna) and BILLING IT TO THE CITY! And covering it up! and lying about it!

sex+(stolen?) money= neverending scandal fodder

gotta love it! Onward to candidate Willard!

What Will the Talibangelicals Do?

There's a lot of talk that Dobson and the rest of the religious right will abandon the GOP for a third party if Giuliani is the candidate next year. I don't think they will and Kevin gives a compelling argument as to why they won't:

Dobson might be pissed, but what he really cares about is judicial appointments, and he knows that even Giuliani will appoint judges that he likes. Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, by contrast, certainly won't. So in the end, even if Rudy gets the GOP nomination, he'll swallow hard and endorse him.

Rudy The (Monumnetally Tone Deaf) Fear Monger

I was going to post something about Giuliani's idiot speech, but Hunter beat me to it. He covers all the points I was going to make, but probably better. The fun part:

Yes. If a Republican is elected, they can "anticipate" terrorist attacks. You know, perhaps because staff members with their "hair on fire" are warning them of the high risk of terrorist attacks. Perhaps because staff members are trying to educate them in vain about a recent ongoing history of terrorist attacks. Perhaps because somebody practically staples a memo to the Republican President's forehead dramatically entitled, in a large and bolded font, "Bin Laden Determined To Strike in U.S." MAYBE SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

Yes, the recent history of Republican "anticipation" of terrorist attacks is certainly something I'd be pinning my ass to, if I were a Republican running for President.

I was pondering over this last night, as a matter of fact, so let's think about this for a minute. Under six years of President Bush, there have been major terrorist attacks on two American cities, public-safety-threatening electricity blackouts artificially created by major energy corporations in an effort to extort the recipients of that electricity, deficits that have reached crisis proportions, criminal indictments of Republican congressmen nationwide and even of Republican White House staffers, one of Americas "crown jewel" cities was in large part destroyed and its population turned into refugees battling a national government response that ranged from incompetent to absent, the defacto suspensions of habeas and other Constitutional rights, the international diplomatic isolation of America, and there have been two major wars, both ongoing.

So a Democratic administration could, in theory, see major terrorist attacks on two American cities, electrical blackouts and corporate criminal extortion of our electrical grids, further massive deficits, criminal indictments of Democratic congressmen nationwide and of White House staffers, the destruction of another major city, encroachments upon various Constitutional rights, the continued international isolation of the nation, and start one major war...

... and they'd still suck less than Bush.