AP reports that Giuliani has taken first step for presidential run.

[SharonAnn]

Bay Buchanan and Wolf Blitzer discussining the "Exploratory committee". Paul Begala says "Exploratory Committee" is spelled M-O-N-E-Y.

[Demeter]

1. Yawn. Race of the Midgets

Another nobody with delusions of grandeur declares.

Meanwhile, those with some substance back away in horror at the thought.

[LiberalEsto]

2. Can he spell

A-D-U-L-T-E-R-E-R?

I don't quite think the religious righties are going to like the fact that Rudy moved his mistress into Gracie Mansion while his wife was living there.

[Kerrytravelers]

3. Bwwwwaaaaahhhhh !!!!!!!!

This just makes me laugh!

:rofl:

[AlCzervik]

4. can't wait to his tax returns, oh yeah there is also that Kerik problem.

never mind the families of the firefighters and nypd that were killed on 9/11 and the radio system that Guiliani wouldn't pay to upgrade. Good luck with that Rudy.

[mcscajun]

5. Link, please?

:hi:

[GOPBasher]

6. Good luck Rudy. I'm sure the Christian Right will love having a pro-choice,

gay friendly guy who's been divorced. He has about as much chance at getting the Republican nomination as I do.

[NOLADEM]

7. You mean this Rudy?

Guiliani as Marilyn


Rudy with convicted bribe taker and fallen 9/11 'hero' Kerik

Picture of Mary with feces on it Guiliani (correctly) allowed to exhibit in NY (wingnuts won't like it)




Giuliani, former adulterer and his now third wife Judi Nathan



Cristyne Lategano. first Giuliani mistress



“It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.”

Rudolph W. Giuliani quote

“We only see the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.”
dmg

Rudolph W. Giuliani quote

[deadmessengers]

8. oh, please, ohpleaseohplease

Please run, Rudy. PLEASE? I think I'd really enjoy seeing your own party eat you alive in the primaries. Hm... let's see:

He's been married three times, the first time to his cousin.
He's twice divorced.
He's Catholic.
He's widely acknowledged to be an adulterer.
He's got an "ethnic" name that is difficult to spell.
He's has a history of supporting gay equality. (a positive in my mind, but the heartland isn't likely to share my opinion)
He's got a history of health problems.
He can be easily tied to his former police commissioner, convicted felon Bernard Kerik.
He's from the region of the country that has the least Repugnican support.
He once ran for Mayor with the LIBERAL party endorsement.

Oh yeah, this ought to be fun to watch.

[NOLADEM]

9. You mean this Rudy?

Guiliani as Marilyn


Rudy with convicted bribe taker and fallen 9/11 'hero' Kerik

Picture of Mary with feces on it Guiliani (correctly) allowed to exhibit in NY (wingnuts won't like it)




Giuliani, former adulterer and his now third wife Judi Nathan



Cristyne Lategano. first Giuliani mistress



“It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.”

Rudolph W. Giuliani quote

“We only see the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.”

Rudolph W. Giuliani quote


“If we take back the labor unions, the legitimate businesses, eventually they become just another street gang. Spiritually, psychologically, they've always been just a street gang.”

Rudolph W. Giuliani quote

[flpoljunkie]

10. And this Rudy "Cashin' in on 9/11" Giuliani?

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060925/barrett

From The Nation Magazine...

Cashing In on Catastrophe

by WAYNE BARRETT & DAN COLLINS

from the September 25, 2006 issue

Even before he left office as New York City's mayor at the end of 2001, Rudolph Giuliani was telling reporters about Giuliani Partners, the management consulting firm he intended to open up with his old City Hall team. The partners were more of a Giuliani posse than a group of peers. Michael Hess, the former city corporation counsel, was named managing partner. Fire Commissioner Tom Von Essen became a senior partner, as did Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, whose later nomination as head of Homeland Security would go down in flames after revelations that his concern for following the rules and avoiding ethical conflicts appeared close to nonexistent. The only partner who came from outside the City Hall crowd was Roy Bailey, former finance chair of the Republican Party of Texas, who'd gotten to know Giuliani when he helped raise money for Giuliani's abortive 2000 Senate campaign against Hillary Clinton. Bailey helped finance the new company, whose reported start-up payroll was $10 million a year.

<>Giuliani Partners' initial press releases religiously avoided any mention of the attacks--Rudy is described as the man who "returned accountability to city government and improved the quality of life for all New Yorkers." But when their clients, who were very frequently companies in trouble, told the world they had just hired a renowned team of "crisis managers," no one pretended their critical expertise came from handling snowstorms or subway fires.

<>Cashing in on 9/11 took many forms. In 2004 Giuliani Partners signed up Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which was concerned about the popularity of drug re-importation. American pharmaceutical companies sold their product at much lower prices in Canada and Europe, where national price controls were in effect. The big profits came in the United States, where Congress had vigilantly guarded the drug manufacturers' right to charge what the market would bear. But American senior citizens had begun taking bus trips to Canada to buy their medication, and, in a far more ominous development for the drug companies, members of Congress were talking about making it legal to import cheaper prescription drugs from across the border. PhRMA wanted Giuliani Partners to prepare a report on the safety of these practices.

The report found re-importation to be a bad and dangerous thing. "As the nation tightens its borders against possible future terrorist attacks, it risks undermining security and safety by opening them to non-FDA approved prescription drugs," the Giuliani study concluded. Giuliani himself testified before two Senate committees. When the public was invited to take its turn to testify before a federal task force studying drug importation, one of the first speakers was Kerik, who raised the possibility that terrorists could send weapons of biological warfare across the border disguised as prescription drugs.

much more...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060925/barrett

[rocktivity]

11. I haven't forgotten that Rudy wasn't going to disburse 9/11 donations

made to the city until March 2002. Only a public outcry made him disburse them before the holidays. March just happens to be the end of a banking quarter--was Rudy planning to divert the funds, or skim off the interest earned?

:headbang:
rocknation

[lovuian]

12. You have to be Kidding when he is the major

screw up of 9/11 and major Bush hush man

They ARE DESPERATE!!!

[Old and In the Way]

13. This will go over like a lead balloon with the religious right.

I can just see Dobson selling him to his base....not.