My initial tendency was to give Geraldo the benefit of the doubt and see how he does. On further reflection, though, I realize this guy has been a joke from day one and will continue to be a joke whether he's a hawk or not. What was FOX thinking?
I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt actually. I think people can be shocked out of formerly held opinions, and sometimes wake up.
Geraldo is a New Yorker, and if he's being transformed the way my New York sister has been (with whom I could NEVER discuss politcs before, without her shrieking defense of the clintons), then Geraldo may not be such a bad idea. He was great on the Simpson trial, unlike some people who blindly supported oj.
Ratings, my friend. (It's the November sweeps, don't you know.)
Geraldo will have much to prove to conservatives after the way he gushed over Bill and Hillary, and I'd personally be extremely suspicious of any sudden "sea-change" in his ideological thought.
But, some things HAVE changed since 9-11, and when leftist Michael Moore actually admits IN WRITING that maybe his gun control views have been wrong all these years, I'm willing to at least acknowledge the possibility that some erstwhile wackos are having second thoughts about a few things.
Look at it this way: the war has taken away half of the sickening political correctness we suffered under throughout the 90's. It would have taken another 50 years of calm, rational explanations of reality to achieve the same result.