Can't be stupid enough to vote for this piece of work.

Anybody who says that a presidential mistress should receive a secret security detail, should be laughed out of the public square... or elected to office in France.

that Rudy appears finished. Even the somnabulent establishment press will go to town with this story.

Rudy and McCain were the two dangerous Republican candidates -- Rudy because he's legitimately dangerous and authoritarian, and McCain because he's still popular to independents that don't realize what a total conversion to crazy Bushian policy he's undergone in the past two years.

With Huckabee or Romney as a nominee, team D will be in strong position to win. I'm beginning to think and hope that Obama will be that candidate.  

Mistresses Should Get Secret Service Protection Too!

Rudy Tries To Explain Why He Chose Cash Over Iraq Study Group

Classic quote: "It all has to do with me."  LOL

It was like a car accident.  You want to look away, but you just have to keep watching.

...is what I learned in a "Dealing Effectively with the Media" class.  Rudy should enroll.

A TPM blogger follows in Lowell's tracks this morning:

I have been watching Meet The Press since, I don't know, Estes Kefauver days and, I'm sad to say, Rudy Giuliani provided the worst performance I've ever seen by a major Presidential candidate.***
Russert prosecuted the famed prosecutor, enumerating one Giuliani scandal after another. All Rudy could do was giggle. He reminded me of that ancient clip in which Bobby Kennedy grilled some miscreant at a Senate hearing and the bad guy laughed at every question. Bobby finally said: "Are you going to tell us anything or just giggle? I thought only little girls giggled?." Sexist, yes (it was 1959).

But it destroyed the giggly witness.

That was Rudy yesterday. All giggles and deer-in-the-headlights terror.

***

listening to the tapes with a tabula rasa approach, I suspect that Rudi himself gave Mr. Giuliani's performance a A: he did not really lose his cool and descend into babbling, he provided (to him) a rational explanation for his every action, one another controlling macho guy would understand perfectly, and, after all, his pecadillos never achieved the impeachment level of Ol' Bill's.  In other words, I imagine Giuliani's core supporteres thought he did a good job dealing with the liberal damn' media.

What's a real guy to do, anyway, when his discarded wife can't take a hint from the unexpected public disclosure of his adultery and move out of (his) Gracie Mansion? Of course, with a Mafia-type driver, poor Rudi was the victim of lots of threats and his loved ones )whoever they migh currently be) were subject to threats, so of course he needed condottieri bodyguards. Get real, you carping lumpen proletariat.  You proles should be happy to pay for the bodyguards, and anything else your elite leaders want.