GOP candidate
February 16th, 2007 |41% of Sean Hannity wack jobs want Newt Gingrich to get the nomination. Please…oh please make it so.
Straight clucker John McCain is not even included in the poll. Why does Sean Hannity hate our war veterans?
Saint Rudy is polling just under 30%. Rudy for the GOP nod? Fine with me. When the conservatives on National Review think the guy has a problem then you know there is plenty of material to prove what a jerk he really is.
Few of those admiring America’s Mayor from afar remember the real mayor who became so jealous of the media attention given to Bill Bratton — his own police commissioner and the brains behind much of his crime-reduction strategy — that he drove the man out of office. Iowa voters have never heard about the Rudy who could walk into a town-hall meeting in The Bronx and shout down a boorish but pitiful female questioner (she rambled on that she had been unjustly evicted, as Esquire Magazine described it in 1997) with an over-the-top response like, “I’m glad we didn’t help you.”
Those who lived in New York prior to 9/11, myself included, remember an excellent mayor who was obsessed with getting credit for everything and making his critics pay; an effective mayor who called rivals “jerks” and “morons;” a decisive mayor who knowingly set out to drag his 14- and 10-year-old children through one of the nastiest and most publicized divorces in history. They remember a ruthless mayor who responded to the accidental police shooting of Patrick Dorismond in 2000 not just by defending the cops (as a good mayor must), but by illegally releasing the victim’s sealed juvenile rap sheet and declaring on television that the deceased “isn’t an altar boy.”
It’s been fun to listen to WATB Hannity twist himself into knots in his attempts to convince his listeners that Rudy is their guy.
I don’t think it’s going to be Straight clucker McCain or Saint Rudy in the end. There is too much dirt on these guys and they both have too short a fuse to go the distance. Watching them blow up will be plenty fun though.
