He had prostate cancer. That isn’t exactly grandiose plans. In retrospect, it is good he didn’t become a senator, since senators rarely ever win the WH.
No, he saw the polls and realized that he was going to get slaughtered.
Being mayor of NYC is arguably far more stressful and taxing than running for senate, if the cancer was that bad he would have relinquished his mayoral duties. It was an excuse.
In retrospect, it is good he didn’t become a senator, since senators rarely ever win the WH.
And mayors NEVER do.
That isn’t exactly grandiose plans. In retrospect, it is good he didn’t become a senator, since senators rarely ever win the WH.
HEH! Yeah, that really holds true now doesn’t it? :)
Rudy isn’t a Senator, Huck isn’t a Senator, Fred was a citizen, and McCain is in it to the last.
On the dem side you have two Senators slugging it out with the dems the early favorite in 08 across the board.
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Yes, and he was also having a midlife crisis in public, on the TV. He was divorcing his second wife (his first marriage was anulled, because he "found out" that she was his first cousin), and saw fit to announce it on TV, before telling her privately, according to all the reports I read. His life was a total soap opera.
I lived in NY at that time, and remember his campaign. He was actually leading Hillary in the polls, running on his law and order act (even though he had Bratton, the guy who pulled it off, fired), but then dropped out at the very last minute, handing the election to Hillary.
He was actually not very popular, after crime went down, but before 9/11, due to his dictatorial ways. Had 9/11 not occurred, Julie Annie would have been an unknown, politically, I think.