Posted on 02/12/2008 4:38:09 PM PST by Salena Zito
Giuliani, Clinton share more than New York TRIBUNE-REVIEW By Salena Zito
Rudy Giuliani was the Republican front-runner for president last fall. He had an unconventional strategy to turn his status into the nomination: Skip the early conservative primary states and focus instead on delegate-rich Florida on Jan. 29 and the "Super Duper Tuesday" states on Feb.5.
Giuliani believed he would appeal to the moderate Republicans in those states.
We know how that turned out.
Now Clinton
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I guess I cross-over on March 4 here in Ohio and vote for Obama. The way I see it, the more delegates he gets, the angrier and uglier the convention for the Dems will be when she steals the nomination right out of his lap.
Not much to vote for in the GOP primary.
Heading to your state next Monday to begin covering the race there. Ohio is going to be huge.
Hillary and Bill’s next strategy will be more mud slinging. The momentum is really going Obama’s way, and the super delegates may start moving in his direction. What is left in Billary’s bag of tricks? Remember there was a report a long time ago about Clintons having damaging info. on Obama, but didn’t want to use it?
Well, the time may be approaching where the Clintons use any and all means, and declare political nuclear war on Obama. We’ll see.
Giuliani didn’t “skip” the early primary states. He competed in each of them until the stress of competetion became too much for him and then he cut and run and claimed that he hadn’t been trying in that state, anyway. For example, only one candidate (Romney) made more trips to New Hampshire than Rudy. Emotionally, Rudy just could not handle competition and that’s why he kept caving in in state after state.
Me too. See you at the polls. Go Obama!
Can we cross over? I don’t think Ohio lets us do that on the spot for a primary.
>> I guess I cross-over on March 4 here in Ohio and vote for Obama.
Just what I’m planning to do here in Texas!
In the unlikely event that Obama is too far ahead on 3/4, I’ll vote for Hillary.
It should be fun. I’m particularly looking forward to telling the Democrats I meet that I’m a conservative seeking to screw up the donks. (After Every Vote Has Been Counted, of course...)
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