Will Thompson Benefit Rudiani?



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Readers of this blog know that we are extremely skeptical about the National candidacy of Rudy Giuliani, who held New York City in his grasp now presently aspires well beyond his reach (Exaggerated cough suggesting feigned detachment). The Tea Party will evaporate as we near the Primaries and he is put under greater scrutiny. We were constituents of Rudy, so we know wherof we speak. His political mind is shallow, divisive and petty. Granted, Rudy is a political star of considerable Machiavellian calibre; Rudy has -- and this is a rare gift -- an uncommon amount of Machiavellian "Fortuna (Averted Gaze)." Ultimately, however, Giuliani's foreign policy experience begins and ends at the front door of the Russian Tea Room. His ideas on international relations are laughable at best, Lowest-Common-Denominator at worst.

Rudy's butterfingery approach to International Relations -- for further reference see Rudy on Arafat -- are 1950's cowboy movie cliche's suffusing macho greaser toughness as an empty alternative to thorough knowledge, which, in foreign policy takes about ten years to acquire. But Rudy -- or, rather his Lady MacBeth Judy Nathan -- does not have ten years; he wants the world and he wants it Now, to paraphrase The Lizard King. Rudy is, to be sure, an able and efficient municipal administrator: But he is not ready for Prime Time.

The oily "Dick" Morris (Eew), on the other hand, feels differently (With special consideration to "The Fred Thompson Effect"). From TheHill:

"Polls show that a big part of the vote that John McCain and Mitt Romney are getting in the Republican primaries, to say nothing of the vote that Newt Gingrich could get if he runs, comes from people who are turned off by Giuliani’s social liberalism rather than turned on by any specific attraction to one of the candidates. This vote is now split four ways — among McCain, Romney, Fred Thompson, and Gingrich. If Fred Thompson gets into the race next month, it will drift to him and concentrate in his corner."

Not to be outdone, according to ThePolitico, social conservatives are going to boycott the general election -- thus opening the way for a third (Or, fourth) party candidate: "A growing number of influential social conservatives are speaking out against Rudy Giuliani, with some threatening that they will take flight from the Republican Party in 2008 if the former New York mayor is the GOP nominee."

Interesting.

(TheHill)