How Giuliani Will Help Elect the Democrat

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-odonnell/how-giuliani-will-help-el_b_40558.html

Rudy Giuliani's presidential candidacy is the best thing that will happen for the Democratic candidates this year. He's going to lose. Yes, I know he's the Republican frontrunner in some polls, but Howard Dean was the frontrunner for a while in the last contested presidential primary season.

On his way to losing, Giuliani is going to divert a lot of money away from the inevitable Republican nominee, John McCain.

Giuliani's losing campaign is also going to pull a lot of pro-choice, independent voters away from McCain in the general election. McCain has had very strong appeal among those voters for years because, among other things, they don't quite realize how hard-core his anti-abortion position actually is. When Republican primary voters discover how liberal Giuliani has been on social issues--along with how many wives he's had and how many gay men he has lived with while waiting for a divorce to come through--they are going to abandon him faster than Democratic voters fled from Howard Dean. But the only way they are going to "discover" Giuliani's record on social issues is for John McCain to tell them about it. McCain's campaign has the most vicious attackers in politics today, including Bush campaign graduates and the Swift Boat attack team. They are going to make Giuliani look very bad to conservative voters, but, in the process, they are going to make McCain look bad to moderates he will need in the general election.

The attacks on Giuliani are also going to make the Democratic nominee look better. Only the New York press (which includes the national press) thinks being The Mayor is adequate preparation for being president. McCain's attacks on Giuliani will include double underlining Giuliani's lack of experience in federal government. Giuliani's experience with the biggest items in the federal budget--Social Security, Medicare, and Defense--is nonexistent. The McCain campaign will do the Democrats the favor of showing that the current Republican frontrunner has less relevant governing experience than Senators Obama and Clinton, who will owe McCain a thank-you note.

[ramapodem]

1. Here's my problem...

with several less conservative states moving their primaries toward the beginning of the calender, Guiliani could possibly win this thing. And to be honest hes the one Democrat's should be afraid of. He could garner a lot of support in the northeast in a general election. I know its early but for example a poll in NJ showed that if he was the nominee he would win the state.

[AX10]

2. K & R!

[mediaman007]

3. Isn't John McCain another version of Bob Dole?

Same guy, different war?

[Vexatious Ape]

4. You make some good points

but I think the fence sitters/moderates/middle of the road types will gravitate to Giuliani in such a big way that he does have a good chance of winning.