Rove grooming Rudy for VP slot in 2008?

[AnnInLa]

http://radarmagazine.com/fresh-intelligence/2005/06/28/index.php#report_001506

Rudy’s Rude Awakening?

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani’s talk-show cheerleading of President George W. Bush may be getting tiresome, but it’s all part of GOP strategist Karl Rove’s master plan to get “America’s mayor” elected in 2008, we hear. But not necessarily to the Oval Office.

According to well-placed political sources, Giuliani has been working closely with Rove to build a Presidential platform against presumed Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. “There’s been talk on Capitol Hill for months about Rove’s ‘secret meetings’ in New York with Giuliani,” says one D.C. operative. “ is not appearing on Hardball and Larry King for his health.”

But sources say the job Rove has in mind for Giuliani isn’t the one the ever-ambitious ex-mayor is angling for; as usual, the Boy Genius has his own ideas. “Whoever gets the Republican nomination is going to appear so extremist that it will be hard for them to appeal to moderates, the core of winning any national election, in the national arena,” notes our insider. “But you add on an American hero like Rudy Giuliani and you have a likable ticket. Just prepare yourself for constant reels of Giuliani saving New York on September 11, 2001.”

Painfully familiar with Rove’s machinations and mindful that Giuliani is likely too moderate to ever win the GOP’s blessing, Democratic strategists have taken to viewing him as a “secret weapon”—the kind of middle-of-the-road Republican (i.e. pro-choice and non-anti-gay) who would look good in the VP slot next to a fire-breather like Bill Frist. Just don’t tell Rudy. Neither representatives for Rove nor Giuliani returned calls seeking comment by press time.

http://radarmagazine.com/fresh-intelligence/2005/06/28/index.php#report_001506

[havocmom]

1. There should be enough on Rudy to take him down before the starts

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

2. Let the moderates speak at the GOP convention, let them be VP....

FU Rove!!! Do you really think throwing the occasional crumb to the moderates while pandering to the RW zealot nutjobs is going to work AGAIN...the moderate/liberal Republicans aren't as stupid as you think.

[Imagevision]

3. Bush family doesn't trust Giulianni and even less so since kerik affair.

[LibDemAlways]

4. Rudy is old news. What has he done

since he left office except line his pockets? Also, wife number one was a cousin. Wife number two was given a public and spiteful heave-ho in favor of one-time mistress, now wife number three. That kind of shit doesn't sit well with the fundie base - even in the number two slot.

[tanyev]

5. Good luck with that, KKKarl.

Rudy is not the type of candidate the Christian Taliban have in mind.

[Historic NY]

6. Giuliani........would never accept being 2nd fiddle..........

his ego & vanity would get the best of him. Rudy's only real claim to fame was 911, his ratings as mayor prior were pretty dismal. Rudy also does not work & play well with others.