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I should preface this by saying that I was hoping Rudy got the nomination. I wouldn't vote for him in the general election, but I was pulling for the guy.
With that said, this campaign, this incredible self destruction, HAS to go down as the biggest political boner ever, right? From being the frontrunner to ZERO wins in just a few months, and no close seconds. He spent gazillions in Florida -- he even LIVED there the last month -- and got THIRD. How incredible.
(Actually, the biggest political gaffe will always be Gary Hart DARING reporters to catch him doing something dirty then getting photos taken on Monkey Business doing just that. THAT'S the biggest presidential election mistake ever. Oh, and Nixon on TV vs. Kennedy looking all sweaty wasn't that smart either. And Dan Quayle in general was a bad decision.)
Imagine dedicating your whole campaign to this one state, the hubris in thinking that momentum meant nothing, then failing so spectacularly. It's incredible. It's like asking no one out for the prom until the day before, then walking up to the prettiest girl and asking her, except instead of saying no she punches you in the stomach and burns down your house.
I feel bad for Giuliani and fear this will follow him. "He should have saved money for retirement, but instead he pulled a Giuliani, sank all of his cash in tech stocks, and is now homeless."
I hope for his sake he gets the VP nod. At least then he'll salvage something.
He got some bad strategy. What say you PoliticalPulse?
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I feel sorry for Rudy, too. He seems like a very talented, dynamic man who, nevertheless, is capable of some monstrously bad judgment. (One need only look at his personal life!) Almost like a character out of Greek mythology or Shakespeare. His hubris is, indeed, mind-blowing. His "fatal flaw" as they say in English class. But still, he's likable enough that it's been sad to watch him self-destruct.
Should it be "pulling a Giuiliani" or "pulling a Rudy"?
It's called "putting all your eggs in one basket".
Or, "you pays your money and takes your chance".
Or, "out of sight, out of mind".
Rudy would have been wiser running as an Independent or his best chance would have been as a Democrat. Alot of blue state republicans are in reality more like Southern Democrats. Not all tho, Romney is an exception on this.Also Rudy never came across with much substance. It was always I did or didn't do this, then did or didn't do that.
By the way Nixons political "Gaff" in 1960/61 was not chalanging the vote in Illinois as Kenedy actually lost that state and the election from the ballot box stuffing of deceased voters.
V8 - its true - the dead may not come back to life, but they voted in Chicago, most likely for Kennedy, but, even if Nixon had challenged the vote of every single person in Illinois and has actually WON Illinois - it would not have made a difference - Kennedy still would have been elected.
The Final Electoral College Vote was:
Kennedy - 303
Nixon - 219
Byrd - 15
Total 537 - Need to win: 269
This is what the Electoral College would have been if Nixon won IL:
Kennedy - 276
Nixon - 246
Byrd - 15
Kennedy STILL would have won. IL was completely irrelevant to the Kennedy win. Its an old wives tale that Joe Kennedy bought the electon for his son by doing a deal with Mayor Daley in Chicago. Sure, there was lots election fraud in Chicago, but didn't matter at the end of the day.
Vote early and often.
I've heard the saying, "that's September 10th thinking". It may now apply to Rudy. A mediocre mayor with not much going for him suddenly being thrust into the limelite. As Al Sharpton said about Rudy on 9/11, "Bozo the Clown could have led New York that day".