Rudy Giuliani Reportedly Prepping For 2012 Presidential Run

[onehandle]

Source: Huffington Post

"America's Mayor" Rudy Giuliani is reportedly seeking to give new life to his national profile by running for president in 2012.

The New York Post reports Friday that the former New York City mayor "is rounding up his top political advisers for a possible 2012 presidential run" in a move that includes plans to do some preliminary canvassing in New Hampshire.

Sources told the Post that Giuliani "thinks the Republican race will be populated with far-right candidates like Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee, and there's opportunity for a moderate candidate with a background in national security."

According to The Post's contacts, however, many see this potential move as a pointless endeavor driven by Giuliani's ego. "They think this is crazy," one person told The Post. "They realize how long the odds are, but they are standing by."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/07/rudy-giuliani-president-2012_n_805698.html

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Book tour with the ultimate free publicity. He must be prepping a new book. Helps with speaking gigs too.

Which is why I expect the grifter to at least continue to squawk about a run.

[doc03]

1. What did he spend the last time like $911,911 per vote? n/t

[connecticut yankee]

2. HA!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[HopeHoops]

3. 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 - we get it already, Rudy.

[Broderick]

17. I attended a speech he gave

and he is an arrogant rude man. I was shocked at how uninspiring he was and how he lived off of perceived greatness as he reiterated the tired litany of verbiage that just led me to believe he was a legend in his own mind. 911 911 911... blah blah blah.

[AtheistCrusader]

24. Came here to make this joke.

Thanks. Now I got nothin'.

[Doctor_J]

4. I guess that mean he'll be getting a Fox show

unless he already has one. Maybe a DU Fox addict can enlighten.

[Little Star]

5. Like he stands a chance! His party is just.........

not that into him! Talk about being tone deaf.

[madmax]

9. Maybe he'd stand a chance if

he campaigned in drag.

[Little Star]

11. lol!

[disndat]

6. How about a Guiliani/Palin ticket?

LOL!

[IDemo]

39. Get it straight

It's Palin/Guiliani, dammit!!!

[karynnj]

7. This after he could not get the support or raise money to make a serious run for Governor or Senator

in 2010? Notice that there was no real competition for Governor on the Republican side. They nominated a loose cannon tea partier who ran a close second to Christine O'Donnell as the strangest and least qualified person to be elected to anything.

Remember he got almost no traction in 2008 - and it wasn't that there was an incredible field then. McCain by 2008 was not the McCain of 2000 - when he lost to negative campaigning by Bush. 911, Giuliani's high point, was 4 years more recent than it will be in 2012.

[madmax]

8. Give it up, Rudy.

You've driven the golf cart around that Florida community enough.

[RoccoR5955]

10. Ghouliani stands an ice cube's chance in hell

The Cons don't like him because he's a New Yorker, and he dresses in drag!

[KingFlorez]

12. That's going nowhere

He's old news, no one cares about him anymore.

[edbermac]

13. Why not dress up in drag and peddle your ass in Times Square, Rudy?

[One_Life_To_Give]

15. I might have to vote for him then

Any guy that will publicly dress in drag to get more tourism for his constituents can't be all bad.
Besides men in dresses Rock. :headbang:

[No Elephants]

29. Every rule has its exceptions. IMO, Rudy is indeed as close to all bad as it gets for a pol.

Fan of police brutality, blood on his hands from 911, moved his mistress in with his wife and kids, Bernie Kerik, and on and on and on.

ETA: Pedophile priest on his payroll, after even the Catholic church stopped paying him.

[Dulcinea]

25. He looks better in drag.

Rudy has to be one of the ugliest men ever. Plus, he lisps. The "base" will have issues with that.

[BlueMTexpat]

14. Please do, Rudy!

Judy still needs a separate airline seat for her handbag.

[sadbear]

16. At this point, it will soon be a matter of who's NOT running

Remember when they had a deck of cards for all the top Iraqi officials (and a similar one of republicans)? We'll soon be able to make of deck of cards of republicans running for president in 2012. I wonder who would be the ace of spades? the two of diamonds?

[yellowcanine]

18. Keep those pics of "Rudy the Drag Queen" handy.

[russspeakeasy]

19. Run Rudy, Run.

I want to see your drag pix again.

[smuglysmiling]

20. Get ready for another bout of...

Noun, Verb, 9/11
Noun, Verb, 9/11
Noun, Verb, 9/11

[Yavin4]

21. Maybe He's Hoping That His Daughter Will Steal It for Him n/t

[kiranon]

22. He's probably just writing another book not worth reading or divorcing

another wife.

[Renegades of Funk]

23. Rudy Can Fail

[Dulcinea]

26. Good Clash reference! eom

[Ter]

27. Romney is not "far-right"

Maybe to us, but not in that field.

[No Elephants]

28. How do you know?. He is a chameleon. He has taken just about every position there is on every

issue. Pro-gay, anti-gay; pro-gun, anti-gun; hunter, varmint shooter as a kid; pro-choice, anti-choice.



TV interviewer, to Ted Kennedy: Romney is saying he is anti-choice. When he was running against you, didn't he say he was pro-choice?

Kennedy: He's pro-choice; he's anti-choice; pro-choice, he's multiple choice.



(Gawd, I miss his wit. Love ya, Sen. Ted)

[CBHagman]

31. I think you have something there.

Anyone seriously hoping to capture the GOP nod is going to play to the base and do little beyond invoke Ronald Reagan, lower taxes, and personal faith. That's pretty much what happened in the Republican candidates' debates of 2008 (and, if I recall correctly, 2007). I'd expect some of the footage is still on YouTube, and perhaps the transcripts are floating about in cyberspace. Will Bunch also devoted a section of Tear Down This Myth to the GOP debate at the Reagan Library.

So the Rudy Giuliani who could get elected in a town that went 75 percent (or whatever the figure was) for Kerry will be gone, gone, gone, and in his place will be something closer to a tea party fantasy. (Just typing that makes me want to go wash my hands...)

[No Elephants]

35. My Reply # 28 was responding to Reply 27, which was about Romney.

Romney ran against Ted Kennedy for Senate (and helped Brown win that same seat after Kennedy died).

[Ter]

37. Giuliani, even in 2008, was not liked by the Freepers

Do you think he'll go even more right if he runs in 2012?

[Ter]

36. He has gone from moderate to right

In current form, he seems like a regular Bush/McCain-type. I save "far-right" for the most extreme examples (such as Sharon Angle and Jesse Helms), or its use won't be as powerful and will get diminished.

I also can tell you that the Tea Party hates him, and not because he's a Mormon (although that may add to it). If he was evangelical they still wouldn't like him.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

33. He's whatever his handlers tell him he's gonna be. nt

[No Elephants]

30. Best line of the 2007-08 primary season was Biden's: Noun, verb, 911.

[Smarmie Doofus]

32. At what point is term "perennial candidate" dusted off?

This guy's had more unsuccessful runs than Harold Stassen.

[forty6]

34. His speeches are already written: a noun a verb and 9/11!

All he needs to gain the corporate controlled White House.

America id doomed. I'm beginning to believe this, after Obama caved to the tax cuts to the rich last month.

[tabasco]

38. That would be hilarious.

Run, Rudy, Run!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

40. The odds are 91:1 against.

[Vinca]

41. Rudy must need his ego stroked again.

Maybe next time he'll actually run in some primaries.

[NikRik]

42. Not again

Did you have something or someone you wish would go away ? Well for me this is one of those !