Sure, he's polling well now, but wait until people learn more about him. He's not likely to go up in numbers when people learn the facts! [His positions are simply not that out of line with those of the majority of Americans. America is NOT that conservative which is something which you refuse to admit.] They already know his pro-WOT stance, and relative fisal conservativeness. Good points, yeah, but when they learn the baggage parts, they will run bigtime! [His "baggage" will not matter to those who understand the need to defeat this enemy. If it does then no party which counts on such voters has much of a chance. These are not dependable allies in a fight.]
DePauw graduate Dan Quayle's family owned the Indianapolis News when I delivered it, and he couldn't think on his feet, had never had to think on his feet.
Marilyn was in Santa Fe in 1998 testing the waters for him under the guise of working for my congressional candidate. I praised Dan's sense of humor, his recent "tough new three-interns-and-you're out program" joke, and she gritted her teeth and had to catch her plane.
It's nice to have a sense of humor.
It was a real pain when Birch Bayh got elected to the Senate--how could that happen. I had to wash my hands after shaking hands with Indianapolis' Democrat mayor Phil Bayt in the '50s--so how could one get elected to the Senate.
How could Evan Bayh get elected? His ads said fiscal conservative and had no party affiliation.
How could Hillary get elected today?
She can isolate and destroy her opponent using her Saul Alinsky tactics (Barbara Olson, Hell to Pay).
But Rudy Giuliani is a bucket of water on the witch, a lead shield to the Joker's kryptonite.
He's got a sense of humor. He's a fiscal conservative--his tax cutting in NY and making people work rather than giving them the welfare are resonant with President Bush's excellent economic stimulus actions.
And he's the one who can defeat Hillary (or Obama, or Hillary-Obama) and be the Commander-in-Chief to keep the pressure on the islamojihadis over there so they don't have the free time to come back and knock down more buildings.
Hey, Dan Quayle's a hundred-percenter. Maybe he's a good candidate.
Except for that winning thing.