Parkbandit
05-24-2011, 02:34 PM
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and hero of 9/11, is “very close to running” for president in 2012, according to a long-time friend who is one of his closest allies on Capitol Hill.
I was at a dinner hosted by the American Spectator for two dozen or so journalists in Washington last night. The speaker was Representative Peter King of New York, who said that he had recently met “one of Giuliani’s closest advisers” and discussed a 2012 bid for the White House.
“If he were making a decision today, he would run,” said King, who revealed that Giuliani had been “talking to people on the ground in New Hampshire” and was working behind the scenes to find out “who’s going to be available” for a campaign staff.
“Right now, I got the impression from the conversations he’s had, from the testing he’s done, he’s getting very close to running.”
King has known Giuliani since 1967, when the two interned together in Richard Nixon’s law firm. At that time, King said, the future prosecutor and New York mayor was a liberal and “one of the most contentious, argumentative people I’ve ever met”.
The congressman said that Guiliani “realises how close he came” to winning the Republican nomination in 2008, when he held a double-digit lead in the primary field in November, less than two months before voting began in Iowa.
King said he thought that one of the problems in 2008 was that his advisers “were keeping Rudy from being Rudy” and that he had told the then candidate: “You’re a Son of a Bitch, that’s why people voted for you – we’re at war.”
Since Giuliani’s resounding defeat (he secured only one delegate and finished behind John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul), King said that the former Gotham mayor – whom he described as “ a very obsessive type guy” – had been “very self-analytical” about what went wrong.
By some measures, Giuliani spent $50 million on the worst presidential campaign in modern history. Giuliani’s liberal stances on abortion rights and other social issues, plus a perception that he was not serious about doing what it takes to win the White House, makes senior Republicans extremely sceptical about the prospects of a successful run.
A Giuliani campaign strategy would probably involve skipping Iowa, where social conservatives dominate, and going all out in New Hampshire in the hope of defeating Mitt Romney, seen as the establishment front runner.
The fact that Giuliani is seriously thinking about running again underlines the fluidity of the current Republican field, with many conservative commentators – read Rich Lowry here and Joe Curl here – being distinctly underwhelmed by the current choices.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100089287/rudy-giuliani-very-close-to-launching-2012-bid-for-the-white-house/
Please stay out Rudy. You ran a TERRIBLE 2008 campaign... I'm not expecting much better now.
Save your money......
I was at a dinner hosted by the American Spectator for two dozen or so journalists in Washington last night. The speaker was Representative Peter King of New York, who said that he had recently met “one of Giuliani’s closest advisers” and discussed a 2012 bid for the White House.
“If he were making a decision today, he would run,” said King, who revealed that Giuliani had been “talking to people on the ground in New Hampshire” and was working behind the scenes to find out “who’s going to be available” for a campaign staff.
“Right now, I got the impression from the conversations he’s had, from the testing he’s done, he’s getting very close to running.”
King has known Giuliani since 1967, when the two interned together in Richard Nixon’s law firm. At that time, King said, the future prosecutor and New York mayor was a liberal and “one of the most contentious, argumentative people I’ve ever met”.
The congressman said that Guiliani “realises how close he came” to winning the Republican nomination in 2008, when he held a double-digit lead in the primary field in November, less than two months before voting began in Iowa.
King said he thought that one of the problems in 2008 was that his advisers “were keeping Rudy from being Rudy” and that he had told the then candidate: “You’re a Son of a Bitch, that’s why people voted for you – we’re at war.”
Since Giuliani’s resounding defeat (he secured only one delegate and finished behind John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul), King said that the former Gotham mayor – whom he described as “ a very obsessive type guy” – had been “very self-analytical” about what went wrong.
By some measures, Giuliani spent $50 million on the worst presidential campaign in modern history. Giuliani’s liberal stances on abortion rights and other social issues, plus a perception that he was not serious about doing what it takes to win the White House, makes senior Republicans extremely sceptical about the prospects of a successful run.
A Giuliani campaign strategy would probably involve skipping Iowa, where social conservatives dominate, and going all out in New Hampshire in the hope of defeating Mitt Romney, seen as the establishment front runner.
The fact that Giuliani is seriously thinking about running again underlines the fluidity of the current Republican field, with many conservative commentators – read Rich Lowry here and Joe Curl here – being distinctly underwhelmed by the current choices.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100089287/rudy-giuliani-very-close-to-launching-2012-bid-for-the-white-house/
Please stay out Rudy. You ran a TERRIBLE 2008 campaign... I'm not expecting much better now.
Save your money......