No one could've predicted:
Arizona Sen. John McCain’s lead over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is growing wider as the Republican campaign ends and Election Day dawns, the results of a new Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby telephone two-day tracking poll shows. McCain now has 35% support in Florida and stands four points ahead of Romney. The poll, which surveyed 941 likely Republican voters in Florida on Jan. 27-28, 2008, carries a margin for error of +/-3.3 percentage points.
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In what is shaping up as a battle for third place, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee are tied at 13% support each and battling for the advantage. Giuliani had sunk much time and campaign treasury into his Florida campaign, to little effect, the survey shows. Months ago, Giuliani led in Florida by a wide margin.
Sigh. I guess Pat Robertson's endorsement wasn't quite the game changer Rudy had hoped.
Sorry, Frumpy.
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BT!
Giuliani done gone…
AMF asshole
When do you think he’ll announce?
Blue Texan, I’ll compliment you on your post once I read it, which I am about to do. I just told them downstairs we are up here. That is, if we really are up here.
What a drag.
-G
From the Miami Herald:
Delusional.
Probably tomorrow…
This, of course, is GOOD for the GOP.
I’m amazed that he was the front-runner for so long.
Hehe… bye bye Rudy, yes we just don’t care…
When he is certain that no more money is coming in.
Is Durbin fighting Harry? I hope so. He’s making good points: it’s the Repubs that are not wanting to get this done.
That’s what I figured. Saw him briefly (I never see Ghouliani anything but briefly. I couldn’t bear it) on the today show, where he educated Matt Lauer about how nobody doesn’t sound optimistic about winning on election day.
Great post, Blue Texan. It needed to be said.
I was also gonna say…but, but, but just yesterday Tweety and Pumpkinhead told us through surrogates on their show that the momentum was with Mittens!
The funniest thing about it is that the more 9ui11iani campaigns, the lower his numbers get. He’d be better off if he did nothing.
To know him is to(not)love him.
I have a feeling the Crist endorsement could put St. McCain over the top.
America’s Ex-Mayor
I found a picture of a cat hiding from Bill Frist and Rudy’s wife.
-G
Well, his campaign has been a farce all along. You couldn’t help but recognize the truth in Joe Biden’s famous comment (paraphrasing): “All Guiliani ever says is a noun, a verb, and 9/11!”
Rudy has gone from America’s mayor to America’s creepy uncle.
-G
Ah, McCainus — the oldest Roman of them all.
Martinez is such a tool. Or fool. Or both. OJ Simpson type trial wrt telecoms? Idiot!
MSNBC was still trying to pimp Ghouliani this morning.
I thought Lamar Alexander always wore plaid.
rudy’s only chance at any primary is to not show up, the more anyone sees him the more they hate him
too bad, he would have been easy to beat in the general
This is excellent. We need to get rid of ANY gooper that has even a whiff of backing moderate positions about him. It’s simple; the further to the right that GOP platform is, the better for us in the general. It is NEVER going to be anything that we could speak of with anything but loathing, and the closer these assholes sail to the edge of their flat-earth, the happier I’ll be.
How many rattlesnakes would you like for your church services, Huck?
St. John! Are you sure that staying in Iraq for 100 years will do the job? I say: “In for a dime; in for a dollar!” I think you need to be talking about a millenium’s worth of that $3 billion dollars a week.
THAT’LL get the voters attention. :o)
Rudy - crazy and will do anything people tell him.
Mitt - not crazy and will do anything people tell him.
McCain - crazy but will not do anything people tell him (though many of his own ideas are stupid anyway).
Thank God Rudy is gone tonight. If people bought that act we would all be crazy and willing to do anything we are told. It also makes sense that Fred was the first to go (and fits more into the Mitt mold) - Fred was not crazy…but willing to do AND believe anything he was told (and his platform was you aint been hurt yet - he wanted to ramp up spending on war if that is even possible + cut services even more to the bone such as bye bye social security)
On the budget for defense and war I belive npr had a good point yesterday - if people saw it all at once (.75 Trillion) they might think about it.
Also info in that piece on how the 2009 funding dries up in Feb so even if next prez wants to pull out right away it would require funding. It nice that the next prez will have to show leadership and direction right away (wont really but they will get called on it) - but the massive economic, domestic, and geopolitical shite Bush is dumping over the fence (of America) is a gross toxin.
sorry to repeat this post from earlier am, but a. this is so On this topic. b. got a chance to take a break off deadline and want to spend doing something constructive. I have already written my Sens. and called the flippers, thanking and tsking the baad ones.
all ny and fl and all who fear 911iani :
He is already written off. by MSM, but also by Floridians. Try this article:
Less of a Draw, a Subdued Giuliani Stays Upbeat
And Mr. Giuliani — who as mayor once told a man who called in to his weekly radio show to protest the city’s ban on pet ferrets that “there is something deranged about you” — called Monday for an end to the “name-calling” in the race for president.
Monday was the first time in the campaign that Mr. Giuliani had allowed the traveling press to fly with him. But the crowds at some of the airport rallies were so small that it might have been more efficient to fly them to the candidate, instead of vice versa.
He is mad, that is, insane. He will go away madder, too. But not go away entirely So what’s to be done about this evil magalomaniac is the FDL word, I believe, coined by I forget. See below. Shorter me. If it is going to happen, we will have to do it.
Will he suffer for going on the greatest fool’s errand in political history? Up to his clients for motivational speakers.
Will he be more vulnerable to the Kerik fall out? Up to the DOJ.
Will he be a laughing stock in NYC? Up to the capacity of Yankee fans who like to seek out vengeance to boo and namecall and to the tabloids. (Full disclosure here, I an BlueStateRedSoxHead, but do not think that Yankees s**ck. Their fans do frighten me.) But they do the scandals and not the serious underpinning evil madness.
Will she leave him now that the ladder of upward social mobility has cracked, in good part thanks to sex on the city, that is her? Who knows? (Did anyone notice in the videos how bad she was at the spouse on the campaign trail thing or how much they had clamped her down?)
Will the vengeful unjust and corrupt acts that he committed as mayor know be known outside of NY and not forgotten? (as per NYT last week) Up to us, the progressive blogosphere. So keep those NYT and Village Voice articles bookmarked. And keep an eye on Josh as he keeps an eye on him.
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Il Duce bites the dust. Ya gotta love it. He’s goin’ back to New York City I do believe he’s had enough
It’s McCainiacs and Mittwits. The Gops hate ‘em both and they may not even have Hillary hatred to see them through.
Gee, that’s a shame.