Ouch. The NY Times just massacres Rudy here...

For Giuliani, a Dizzying Free-Fall
By MICHAEL POWELL and MICHAEL COOPER

Published: January 30, 2008

Perhaps he was living an illusion all along.

Rudolph W. Giuliani’s campaign for the Republican nomination for president took impressive wing last year, as the former mayor wove the pain experienced by his city on Sept. 11, 2001, and his leadership that followed into national celebrity. Like a best-selling author, he basked in praise for his narrative and issued ominous and often-repeated warnings about the terrorist strike next time.

Voters seemed to embrace a man so comfortable wielding power, and his poll numbers edged higher to where he held a broad lead over his opponents last summer. Just three months ago, Anthony V. Carbonetti, Mr. Giuliani’s affable senior policy adviser, surveyed that field and told The New York Observer: “I don’t believe this can be taken from us. Now that I have that locked up, I can go do battle elsewhere.”

In fact, Mr. Giuliani’s campaign was about to begin a free fall so precipitous as to be breathtaking. Mr. Giuliani finished third in the Florida primary on Tuesday night; only a few months earlier, he had talked about the state as his leaping-off point to winning the nomination.

As Mr. Giuliani ponders his political mortality, many advisers and political observers point to the hubris and strategic miscalculations that plagued his campaign. He allowed a tight coterie of New York aides, none with national political experience, to run much of his campaign.

More: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/us/politics/30giuliani.html?_r=3&ex=1359349200&en=21f5d8e58fea258a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Always tragic.

C'mon down from that fence, cowboy.

The view's too good up here. :)

Seriously, though, no way.

My argument:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WilliamPitt/397

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WilliamPitt/392

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WilliamPitt/391

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WilliamPitt/370

So.

:toast:

Biden had it right. A noun, a verb, and 9-11.

:)

Short, sweet and right to the point! :rofl:

;-)

You've been awful quiet. Are you pulling an Obama and snubbing us? :)

to gain one delegate, maybe he'll just concede. He's 'happy', not bloodthirsty like those other guys. That was funny.

PS Rudy deserved to be massacred.

Fitting, somehow.

Sweet isn't it! He didn't have a prayer - http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2008/01/29/he-didnt-have-a-prayer-rudy-out-endorses-mccain/

tomorrow at the Reagan Library. They were going on about how much love there is between him and Rudy.

I had no idea.