[Liz]

Rudy’s Bernie Weekend
by Ben Smith
New York Observer
This column ran on page 17 in the 12/20/2004 edition of The New York Observer.

Three years and three months is a long time to keep your sainthood if you’re still among the living, so give Rudy Giuliani credit: He had a good run.But mark the date: On Dec. 11, 2004, in a splash of tabloid headlines, history returned to the man formerly known as "America’s Mayor." His attempt to install his former driver and rough-edged alter ego as the Secretary of Homeland Security backfired, his new Republican friends threw him overboard and, returning to New York, he found the city he’d once tamed turning on him, its cowed press militant and his old enemies—remember when Rudy had enemies?—gloating on television.

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You may reach Ben Smith via email at: bensmith@observer.com.

SOURCE http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage1.asp

[Dark Skies]

Thx Liz, I don't agree with you...but I respect you toughness.

Keep it up...and keep an open mind.

[George W. Bush]

Some some Rudy poll-citer brought it up, I glanced at the current poll here at FR:

Free Republic Opinion Poll: AP: Giuliani Takes Steps to Prep for Presidential Bid in 2008! Would you be for or against Rudy Giuliani for president?

Composite Opinion
against	59.4%		914
for	40.6%		624
	100.0%		1,538
Member Opinion
against	60.9%		493
for	39.1%		316
	100.0%		809
Non-Member Opinion
against	57.8%		421
for	42.2%		308
	100.0%		729

Hmm...60% opposed to Rudy. Didn't have to go far to find a poll to contradict all their claims.