[LdSentinal]

Which part of post-9/11 popularity didn't you understand? Apart from John Faso, who was running with Pataki on top of the ticket, the others were pre-9/11 endorsements.

Without Guiliani's support in the '02 elections, Jim Talent and John Sununu would not get enough support from independents to win their respective elections and the Senate would have been under Democratic control with Tom Daschle as MAJORITY leader. But hey, whatever. Scorn his support of conservative candidates. Senator Saxby Chambliss might think differently of that.

And Bill Simon would not have won the GOP primary in '02 against RINOrdan without Rudy's support; of course, in retrospect, that might not have been good move.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

It's nice that Giuliani came out to support his old friends, but think about this realistically.

Aside from the Specter-Toomey primary in Pennsylvania, can you name a single race in the entire country during this past election cycle where a political endorsement made one bit of difference?

No?

I didn't think so.