I know we’re all wrapped up in the incredible story of Gov. Sarah Palin, and the incredible meta-story of the self-destruction of the legacy media. But I wanted to take a moment to note just how effective Rudy Giuliani has been as a surrogate for the McCain/Palin ticket. He is absolutely our most effective attack dog.
Every campaign needs one, and I now believe that Rudy needs to be front-and-center much more often.
For example, on Hannity & Colmes last night, Rudy absolutely destroyed Alan Colmes’ various attacks on Palin and defenses of Obama simply with his laughter. I don’t know what it is about Rudy’s laughter that is at once scornful yet genuinely mirthful.
His words, of course, were also right on the money.
HANNITY: And I — has he ever made a million-dollar decision? Has he ever made a life or death decision?
GIULIANI: When he makes decisions, it takes a long time.
HANNITY: Yes.
GIULIANI: On Georgia, he first set up a moral equivalency between Russia and Georgia. He then said let’s give it to the United Nations until they figured out they have — Russia has veto power. It took him three days to get to the right decision.
HANNITY: Yes.
GIULIANI: So I think that there’s a difference here in judgment, a difference in experience, and I think that he got away with no experience. And all of the sudden we have a woman on the ticket, and her whole record is being attacked in a way that his never was.
And on Joe Biden:
GIULIANI: The reality is that we have our ticket in the right order.
HANNITY: That’s right.
GIULIANI: The person with experience — most experience, is number one.
HANNITY: Right.
GIULIANI: The younger person, who’s the next generation, is number two. They have a person with no experience, number one, and they have a person number two that has got a lot of experience, but on foreign policy.
Tell me how often has Joe Biden been right? He opposed Ronald Reagan in the struggles Ronald Reagan had against the Soviet Union.
HANNITY: Soviet Union.
GIULIANI: He was hanging on to (INAUDIBLE) when everybody else had rejected it.
HANNITY: Against Kuwait.
GIULIANI: He voted against the Persian Gulf War and he voted against the surge.
HANNITY: Right.
GIULIANI: The surge which has proven to be successful. So Joe has a record, but he’s got a record of being consistently wrong on these major issues.
Then there is this exchange with Tom Brokaw:
[Obama] was rejected by Ohio. He was rejected by Florida. He was rejected by New York. He was rejected by all the big states. Rejected. Even after he was the leading candidate.
Rudy was not right to be our candidate for a number of reasons. But when he’s advocating for you, there is none more effective.
Here’s to appreciating Rudy. I for one would be very comfortable with Rudy having a significant role in the McCain Administration. He would make a fantastic Attorney General.
-TS
Well done Sophist...Giuliani deserves kudos for his defense of McCain/Palin....
aaronbg Wednesday, September 3rd at 11:44AM EDT (link)..and Alan Colmes is a complete tool.
“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger
“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.
Great stuff.
rstreu Wednesday, September 3rd at 11:44AM EDT (link)Giuliani is exactly the attack dog we should all wish for.
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Guiliani and Romney are both good attack dogs,
dglenn Wednesday, September 3rd at 11:56AM EDT (link)but Romney’s problem is that he is too technocratic, whereas Rudy is very plainspoken.
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“In an insane society, reality is outside of the mainstream.”
“If people are not free to trade with each other, all other freedom is meaningless.”
Don’t blame me. I voted for McCain.
Agreed Sophist.
c17wife Wednesday, September 3rd at 2:33PM EDT (link)What we are seeing now is exactly why Rudy was my #2, second only to Fred!
He is very effective as an attack dog and I hope Steve Schmidt gives him free reign to punch at the press everyday between now and Nov.
This election is going to be nasty and we are going to have to fight. There is simply too much to lose.
BTW-Romney and Huck have been pretty decent as well. I say send them all out swinging.
As for Fred and Joe, let them be the adults in the room on every news show we can find. They proved last night that they are leaps and bounds above anyone on the other side.
Duty is ours, outcomes belong to God.~Mike Pence
Rudy: Tell me how often Biden has been RIGHT!
gamecock Saturday, September 6th at 12:57AM EDT (link)yes, that’s what matters and what wins elections
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson
gc reco - Palin is as good as Rudy - nt
gamecock Saturday, September 6th at 12:58AM EDT (link)1
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson
could not agree more
Dienekes Saturday, September 6th at 2:34AM EDT (link)I couldn’t have voted for him, but I have a genuine affection for the man and his ability to cut through the crap and tell it like it is. And especially for (surprisingly) being the one candidate that would not do the shameful thing to distance himself from President Bush even by an inch. I appreciate that so much that I almost could have voted for him, and would have stood down had McCain piced him for VP (so too with Lieberman; would have thought both were poor choices, but I have enormous respect for both men). He is enormously effective and persuausive.
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Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!
mbecker908 Saturday, September 6th at 1:58PM EDT (link)McCain should have him in every media market in the US. He should be on TV every day for the next 60 days.
Nobody - in either party - is better than Rudy at deconstructing their opponent and making the lefty news folks look like the complete idiots they are than Rudy.
I’d like to see him as Press Secretary in the McCain Administration.
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CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.
mbecker, that's a tremendous idea. Rudy
janis Saturday, September 6th at 2:16PM EDT (link)slapping David Gregory around would be worth paying for! Be interesting to see what Helen Thomas would try with someone like Rudy…..
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Rudy..
miklewhite Sunday, September 7th at 9:14AM EDT (link)I am definitely a Giuliani fan from way back, and I agree it would be great to see him play a part in a McCain govt., but I have to be honest and play devil’s advocate here; it seems he might have used 9/11 for personal political gain and if this is correct, I wonder about him being a cohesive element within a larger political structure..
Press Secretary
mbauer Sunday, September 7th at 10:14AM EDT (link)That would be the best way to assure McCain’s image never falls as far as Bush’s has.
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Hannity
Yared Sunday, September 7th at 6:41PM EDT (link)This is a side note, but I love it when Colmes it taking some of Hannity’s time on air and Hannity just says, “EXCUSE ME ALLEN….”
I love it when he says that.
http://rageofjared.blogspot.com/
^^^the blog
Rudy Rocks!
lyndad4kids Monday, September 8th at 6:26PM EDT (link)Have you seen the interview in which Biden says “RUDY GIULIANI ONLY KNOWS HOW TO SPEAK IN THREE WORD SENTENCES - ‘NOUN VERB 9/11′.”
It is that pompous, disrespectful attitude that will lose them the election.
With the anniversary of 9/11 approaching, I will never forget Giuliani’s bravery. We live just over the bridge and it was he who went right into the smoke and ashes. He didn’t just roll up his sleeves for a photo shoot. He got down and dirty. He walks the walk just like McCain. We lost a dear friend in 9/11 and know many others who were there. For Biden to criticize Giuliani on such a sacred matter shows that he has no idea what we as Americans hold sacred.
We’ll just have to let him know in September!