Giuliani As John Kerry

5:08 pm EST September 30th, 2007 | News | 4 Comments

Rudy Giuliani is trying to make the case that he’s the Republican most likely to beat Sen. Clinton. Now, putting aside the fact that I think this is a foolhardy position for Giuliani to take (this is a guy who makes President Clinton’s personal foibles look downright quaint, heck, we all know Chelsea returns Bill and Hillary’s phone calls), Giuliani would in theory be the Republican best poised to win New York. That’s where he began setting himself up as the President of 9/11 and as a crime-buster. But in fact, Sen. Clinton in the last poll I saw crushes Giuliani in New York, and she was just re-elected there in a landslide. Furthermore, the numbers seem to say as the state’s former first lady, Sen. Clinton puts Arkansas on the table. Wouldn’t Giuliani be the worst-positioned candidate to fight Sen. Clinton in Arkansas?

In other words, maybe setting yourself up as the best candidate to inoculate your party against the other guy’s strengths (John Kerry) is not the best strategy for victory.

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4 Responses to “Giuliani As John Kerry”

  1. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    September 30, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/national.html

    He’s still the best person to beat Clinton. But that means little when you are down 5% in the polls.

    Also, he would be more competitive than Bush in New York and California, but not enough to put them in play. Meanwhile, he does weaker in Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee… oops, that’s the election. Democrats win.

    (Side note, Hillary Clinton is now the best candidate to beat the Republicans. The only cases where she’s not, she’s still ahead by 10%.)

  2. section9 says:
    October 1, 2007 at 8:51 am

    Actually, you’re both wrong.

    Giuliani wins the red states that Bush won for one reason-no one in them can actually bring themselves to vote for the Cackle.

    One of the reasons it’s fun to watch Democrats pan Giuliani is to watch the fear break out. It’s not New York and California we’re aiming at. We’re not acutally as dumb as that. There’s a reason why Oliver is a blogger and the professionals actually run campaigns.

    Rudy runs well in Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the Upper Midwest, all states that Hillary needs (and she needs a straight flush with her negatives, btw) to win. Rudy’s moderate stances on social issues will appeal to the center. And let’s face, his trump card is this: he’s actually RUN something and turned New York around. Hillary picked china patterns in the WH for eight years.

    We haven’t quite gotten round to the fact that she’s never actually done anything. Don’t worry. We will. You all are going to end up looking stupid for not having nominated Obama, who could have won.

    Very fun to watch Libs In Denial.

  3. John says:
    October 1, 2007 at 9:32 am

    Rudy’s campaign seems to be based on two propositions. He owns 9/11 and he’s the only Republican capable of stopping the daughter of Satan. Otherwise it’s if you liked Bush you’ll love Rudy. All somewhat questionable grounds I would have thought.

  4. duros62 says:
    October 1, 2007 at 12:43 pm

    Dude, we haven’t nominated ANYBODY yet. Neither have the Republicans. Let’s not go counting all them chickens, ‘kay?