Yep. And it helps that Rudy is a right-wing authoritarian to begin with. He’s a political bully who cares more about getting his way, (and getting credit), than doing the right thing. Unfortunately, that seems to be a selling point for the Republicans.

The Democratic party has to hope three things happen:

1.) Bloomberg enters the race as he steals more support from Giuliani than Clinton. (The same is not true of Giuliani vs. Obama, by the way.)

2.) The Religious Right go through with their threats to derail his campaign. Here Thompson is the obvious heir.

3.) 9/11 starts to lose its effectiveness with voters. Simple psychology says it will, but I think the media will keep it afloat longer.

One thing the right can do very, VERY well, it’s ignore the sins of their leaders. The authoritarian in them will happily vote for whoever they are told to vote for, and they will lose no sleep over it.

So long as the ebil dimmocruds don’t win, justice will have been served.

Hillary can beat Giuliani. Hillary can beat every Republican.

Obama can beat (nearly) every Republican as well, as can Edwards.

It depends on if Bloomberg enters the race. If he does, it splits the Anti vote.

If it is Giuliani and Clinton, the anti vote is the same and Clinton wins.

If it is Giuliani and Obama, the anti vote is anti-Giuliani and Bloomberg steals enough from Obama that Giuliani wins.

The same is true of Fred Thompson, but to a lesser degree. Clinton wins relatively easily, Obama struggles.

Granted, once we know who the contenders are, the campaigns will switch gears and Giuliani has a lot of negative baggage that most conservatives don’t know about and that could scuttle his chances.

“Obama out raises Guiliani and Romney combined by $1.5 million dollars!!!”

CNN had, ‘Giuliani Leads ‘08 Fund Raising.’ Or something to that effect.

Further proof that the Democrats biggest threat this cycle isn’t from the GOP but from the media.

This guy is a Yankee fan isnt he …let me guess the Yankees are pacing themselves too right….come on this is a least the third straight quarter the Repubs have been outraised…its not going to get any better as long as the Guiliani’s and Romney’s of the world continue to hang themselves with the policies and world view of one GWB.

I don’t see “Salvation via Skeletor,” but stranger things have happened.