Posted on 07/19/2008 12:45:46 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Rudy Giuliani is launching a new fund-raising committee to dole out cash to New York GOP candidates - a move that could help him collect political chits as he weighs a run for governor, The Post has learned.
It's the first major political move by the former mayor since his run for president flamed out in January.
The Giuliani camp is expected to announce the creation of the committee as early as Monday. The same day, he'll hold a small fund-raiser at the Grand Havana Room on Fifth Avenue for his existing federal political action committee, Solutions America.
Sources close to Giuliani said the state fund-raising venture is simply "him keeping his options open" for his future. But several sources say the former mayor is eyeing a gubernatorial run in 2010.
The sources said the fund will focus on several races around the state, but the main emphasis will be helping Republicans retain a majority in the Senate.
Political insiders said the move suggests Giuliani is trying to rebuild his political clout after his disappointing presidential bid - and doesn't now have a natural platform that an elective office would provide.
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Rudy looks like Mother Teresa compared to Bloomberg, Spitzer, or Paterson....
Rudy badly overreached by running for the presidency, he should have gone for NYS governor in ‘06 and probably would have won, sparing us from the Spitzer debacle .. and it would have put him in good position to run for POTUS in the future if successful as governor of NY
Oh, yeah.
I agree. He miscalculated his nationwide appeal. He should have run for governor instead. It was his for the taking.
Lest we forget the "melting pot" that is NYC and always has been, Rudy was an old school *tough* Democrat originally, and only changed his party affiliation to Republican when President Reagan offered him the job of US Attorney for the District of New York, and *only* if he changed his affiliation to Republican. Reagan, (another "old school" tough former Democrat) insisted, and so Rudy changed his stripes in order to get the job.
OK, we may call them RINO's and we may call them liberals in Republican clothing ... but the brutal reality is that no true conservative would ever be able to attain high elective office in the melting pot of New York, it just isn't in the cards given the historic social fabric of this region.
Rudy as Governor of New York? OK, that would work.
Rudy as President of the United States? Nope, ain't gonna happen.
My father always said that the position of Mayor of NYC is a dead end job ... no NYC Mayor has ever gone on to attain higher political office. Rudy could have been the first to achieve the governorship, but instead he overreached and shot for president instead, thereby damaging not only his national image, but right here at home too. It would have been a slam-dunk in '06, but now its an uphill battle if he decides to run for governor in 2010.
Rudy as Vice President of the United States?
Yes, he will be too busy arguing to heed any suggestions from McDole to play nice and apologize to Democrats. I hate that he is liberal too, but if they can win on conservative ideas and keep Democrats from passing massive tax increases, it the least I can do for the young to have more opportunity.
We had Gov. Pataki for 12 years, but he was so weak that he couldn't groom any up-and-comers because they would've put him out to pasture pretty quickly. And why not? That's pretty much what he did to Sen. D'Amato.
Are the "minorities" now the majority? If they are, Rudy ain't gotta prayer. when Rudy ran for Mayor, things in NYC had gotten so bad , that even the powerful NYC Jewish Liberal voting block threw some weight behind Rudy. Once he got the town straightened out, and his character defects, which are many, started to show, they couldn't wait to get rid of him. The town got so safe and even livable, that perhaps the limousine-liberals found it too boring.
Rudy will take the upstate Irish-Italian- Catholic-Normal-People-vote, a lot of which is closet-democrat in nature, probably will even carry Staten Island, but win the whole state? Fuggedaboutit. This guy is damaged goods.
That was Rudy's infamous "Kick Conservatives To The Curb Strategy."
In the end, Rooty actually spent a whopping $60 million (much more than Huckabee's $7 mill) and Rooty got only one delegate for his time and trouble.
In Fla he was banking on votes of liberal NYC transplants---Rooty campaigned there 61 days straight and came in a distant third. Seems the more voters saw and heard him, the less they wanted to vote for him.
His WIFE was a BIG reason he lost--even blase liberal New Yorkers RECOILED at the sight of her. Her first campaign speech was the start of his troubles---at a fund-raiser she rambled on and on about "dating" Rooty (while onlookers winced b/c he was married at the time).
Everytime she surfaced voters were reminded the Mayor married an adulteress home-wrecker. Mayor Rudy paraded her around NYC even as his wife and children lived in Gracie mansion. Then he tried to dump his wife and kids out in the streets to move the bimbo in.
During the campaign it was discovered Rudy was using city funds to subsidize his mistress and hiding the costs in obscure city agencies.........usually known as governmemnt fraud.
HAHAHHAAAAA ... gotta love their masochism! /laughs
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