You may remember in 2003, leading up to Iowa, that Howard Dean was clearly the Democratic frontrunner, and as Gov. Dean later noted – when you’re the frontrunner that’s who everyone is aiming at. The GOP field is beginning to turn it’s guns on Giuliani, on issues like guns and immigration. The other GOP campaigns have apparently concluded that hitting him on his moderate-liberal positions on gays, abortion, etc. won’t work (or more likely, will be used as a last resort) and hit him on conservative issues but not 100% crazy conservative issues.
I advise folks to take all political predictions with a grain of salt, and take mine with a whole silo, but I think you have to be crazy to think that the same religious far-right voters who saw a vote for George W. Bush as a vote for Jesus’s Emmisary On Earth Against The Gay Homosexual Liberal Terrorists will turn out for Rudy Giuliani both in the primary and general election. Rudy’s base is the pro-war wackos and the folks who like in Trickle-Down Fairyland. And while those people may constitute a part of the Republican’s mostly white, mostly male tent – they don’t look like America at all.
That said, I almost look forward to a candidate with as much baggage (corruption, anti-firefighter, racial insensitivity, etc.) being the GOP’s boy versus any of the top-tier Democrats.
I almost look forward to a candidate with as much baggage…
Where have I heard this strategery before?
The more people know about Giuliani, the worse he does in the polls. The early the primary season starts, the better it is for him. However, he doesn’t have the support of the religious base, the people who go to church every week, who were the people who manned the amazing GOTV campaign that won it for the GOP the last two times.
They might bite the bullet and vote for Giuliani, but they won’t volunteer for him.
Any Clinton bashing Repub that votes for Rudy is a steaming pile of hypocritical horse sh*t.
Bill Clinton is a better “family values” role model than Rudy Giuliani is.
You watch, there will be an ignorant Repub trying to argue against this truth, because Repubs have no shame or sense of decency.
They might bite the bullet and vote for Giuliani, but they won’t volunteer for him.
When the alternative is Hillary!? I think you misunderestimate the level of antipathy the Religious Right has for Madame Clinton. They’d rather let their gay stem cells get married then see her in the Oval Office.
They’d rather let their gay stem cells get married then see her in the Oval Office.
Seriously, good one.