And you can bet that Rudy will blame “the far right” when he announces his withdrawal from the race. The people who are supporting him are your garden variety GOP activists and others who only know Rudy through 9/11.
Yeah, Rooty will really "take it to us".
He will show us.
As best I've been able to tell, most of the Rudy Rooters are liberals who started voting for the GOP because they didn't like the Clintons. They flock together on FR and validate each others views by declaring themselves conservatives.
“And you can bet that Rudy will blame “the far right” when he announces his withdrawal from the race. The people who are supporting him are your garden variety GOP activists and others who only know Rudy through 9/11.”
I don’t care who he blames, just having him pull out is good enough for me!! Those in the party who are supporting him are all doing so for their own selfish interests. They are not the movement conservatives but are looking for their own positions of power or money or both. So what if a few million more babies get slaughtered in the process.
Absolutely. This is why I say that Guiliani is the media's "dream candidate" for the GOP. It's a win/win scenario for them.
Case #1: Guiliani loses the GOP primary. In this scenario, the media (much like some recently banned posters here) gets to portray the GOP base as a bunch of "right-wing zealots" who destroyed the candidacy of "America's mayor" because of a few "minor" issues o disagreement. Not the media's preferred case, but a minor "win" for them anyway.
Case #2: Guiliani wins the GOP primary, but loses the general election. This is the media's preferred scenario. Here, the media gets to gleefully point out for weeks on end how the conservative influence in the GOP is effectively over -- all anyone need do is toss them some insincere platitudes and provide a credible "bogeyman" in the opposition, and the formerly powerful right wing of the party will follow like sheep. Plus, they get to unload with all of the anti-Guiliani ammo they have saved up (getting some negatives out now so they can claim "old news" during the GOP primary, but will suddenly find them relevant again in the general election). A possible bonus may be a long-term defection from the GOP by conservatives.
Case #3: Guiliani wins the general election. If the media has to live with any Republican winning, it might as well be Guiliani. He's certainly not going to betray their core principles of pro-abortion and anti-gun ownership. Plus, he's "colorful" enough to provide for four years of good stories about his latest gaffe.
“And you can bet that Rudy will blame “the far right” when he announces his withdrawal from the race.”
And for once, just once, that statement coming from the mouth of a socialist politician will be correct.