Rudy Giuliani’s sad self-destuction: How “America’s mayor” became just another GOP sidewalk lunatic

Salon ^ | February 22, 2015 | Jim Sleeper

[2ndDivisionVet]

There is an important lesson here for us all: How often genuine political promise coexists with puerility and worse.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest wasn’t just being diplomatic or clever yesterday when he said he feels sad and sorry for Rudy Giuliani, the former “America’s mayor” who’s been raging like a sidewalk lunatic at President Obama. There actually is something sad about Rudy’s long self-destruction, which began before his disastrous presidential primary bid of 2008.

Sad, but possibly instructive to the future sidewalk lunatics among today’s Republican presidential-wannabes. Maybe you had to be with Giuliani at the start of his electoral career to learn what they and the rest of us should learn from this spectacle: not to gloat or cluck our tongues, but to consider how often genuine political promise coexists with puerility and worse...

[V_TWIN]

The libs are buggin’ because they know deep down Rudy is right and a WHOLE LOT of people feel the same way. They’ve know it since the last midterm election IMO.

[MeshugeMikey]

who knew the “libs: had SLEEPER CELLS...In America....

[Slyfox]

In which the author calls someone a name and expects hosannas for doing so.

Pulitzer material that's fer sure.

[MeshugeMikey]

well accoridng to my search..there is a Jim Sleeper...who isa urinalist

Jim Sleeper
Author
Jim Sleeper is an American author and journalist. Since 1999 he has also been a lecturer in political science at Yale University, where he has taught undergraduate seminars on American national identity and on journalism, liberalism, and democracy. Wikipedia
Born: June 6, 1947 (age 67)
Education: Yale University
Books: Liberal Racism: How Fixating on Race Subverts the American Dream.

oddly his Book doesnt seem to have been written by the same part of his mind that “penned” this article...

[ilovesarah2012]

Except a whole lot of Americans completely agree with Rudy, but don’t let that stand in the way.

[ripley]

Salon supports the revolution, comrade!

IMHO

[RWB Patriot]

I’m sure Salon will be saying the same thing when a democrat mayor goes off on the next republican president.

[HomerBohn]

Isn’t Salon a magazine for beauty parlor operators?

[Westbrook]

Salon.

The on-line clone of the appropriately named Vanity Fair.

[mylife]

As Rush says, “Libs will always tell you what they fear”

[butterdezillion]

They’re lining up to flash the mark of the beast on their foreheads.

[miss marmelstein]

Josh Earnest being clever...

[AdaGray]

Oh how they wish this were true. Typical Left Wing tactics.

[oh8eleven]

oddly his Book doesnt seem to have been written by the same part of his mind that “penned” this article...
He must have been using the non-Sleeper side of his brain.

[MeshugeMikey]

ahaha I suspect you’re right....

[JayAr36]

I have considered the source and immediately dismissed it as just more crap from the mouths of idiots.

[Machavelli]

AND, accuse you of their own feelings. The libtards are the racists and socialists, not the so called far right. Todays far right is the rock solid core of our country of 50 years ago.

[USS Alaska]

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, and Giuliani was right for the 15 minutes when his municipal stage was a national one as never before. But we didn’t have to make him president to learn why even a grateful Britain dumped Churchill the first chance it got after V-E day:

The last sentence tells you all you need to know about this liberal plick. He gives douche bags a bad name.

[tumblindice]

Jim Sleeper is one suave candy coated clown.

[Logical me]

Does anybody Read Salon?

Nope! Rudy was 100% correct. King Obama youth was wasted on Muslim teachings that he, still to this day, belongs to. He is a hard core communists by his actions. And is he ever black? No question there.