In the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primaries two of the lowest vote getters were Rudy Giuliani and Dennis Kucinich.

After each of their poor showings, Giuliani’s and Kucinich’s campaign spending choices and comments about them were quite telling.   Read more…

Oh, what, you don't think he would?

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The romantics in the current Republican Party herald back to the 1980 Reagan coalition and his victory born of the “three-legged stool” of Reagan Conservatism: a strong defense, a strong economy and strong social values.

Now, over two decades later, the incongruity among those three ideals haunts the Republican presidential nomination process. As the plethora of Republican candidates stake their claims, the dissatisfaction of the Republican electorate over their choices reflects the fact that it is impossible to obtain all three of the Reagan goals simultaneously.   Read more…

Paul Krugman, who, when the last grain of observable truth tumbles into the sea is the one I trust to accurately note the event, wonders why Rudy Giuliani’s habit of lying is not a larger story told by the media.

Mr. Giuliani has a habit of saying things, on issues that range from health care to national security, that are demonstrably untrue.

Yesterday, Nicole Belle at Crooks & Liars put up a post up about former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and his actions regarding outfitting the FDNY with proper--and functional--radios. Motorola was given a no-bid contract to provide the city with said radios--when tested in 2001 the devices didn't work, so the FDNY was once again stuck with radios that hadn't worked properly during the first attack on the Twin Towers in 1993.

There is footage of Rudy declaring how the brave firemen "stood their ground" in the towers on that otherwise fair, late summer day known as 9/11--truth be known, if their radios had been working they would have obeyed orders to evacuate. It's kind of like saying the passengers of the Titanic bravely drowned in freezing waters--had they been given life rafts, it's rather likely they would have opted for survival, capiche?

When Rudy Giuliani trumpets his actions vis a vis 9/11 he outdoes Herod dancing naked on the graves of the Muses. Or maybe I dreamed it.

(Jivester News, Lmtd.) The calendar date known as 9/11, which had previously distanced itself from being associated with any one political figure, has ended speculation as to who it would support (from among the many declared candidates for the office of the President of the United States) by declaring that Rudy Giuliani is the guy for it. 9/11, speaking at a calendar signing expo in Toronto, told the crowd of mostly polite Canadians that "...Rudy loves me and I love Rudy. And if I call Rudy, and he's busy, he still picks up, because that's how much he loves me."

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