by
Selwyn Duke
Okay,
I’ve had enough. I know the empty-vessel Shill Media struggle for
something, anything to talk about, this being the lot of those
intellectually and philosophically bankrupt. But Rudolph Giuliani for
president? Please. There’s more chance I’ll simultaneously be made head of
NOW and the NAACP and be invited to George Soros’ next soiree.
I know a little something about Giuliani.
Although my politics, faith, appearance, gun case and, well, most
everything about me say otherwise, I was raised in New York City. And one
of my last acts before departing the Den of Iniquity for suburbia was to
cast a vote for America’s Mayor. Don’t hold it against me; he was running
against David Dinkins, a man who made Forrest Gump look smart.
Unlike the piece I wrote about the now listing
U.S.S. Mitt Romney, I’m not herein trying to sound the alarm. Rather, I
simply point out that Giuliani is a ship that only floats in New York
Harbor. He is far too liberal to get the Republican nomination.
I’ve never witnessed a more laughable game of
collective “Let’s pretend” than the media’s Giuliani coverage. Even Dick
Morris, the erstwhile Clinton propaganda minister who fancies himself the
Niccolo Machiavelli of the third millennium, has called Giuliani the man
to beat.
He’s more like the man who will be beaten – and
by more than one candidate, mind you.
The media love to point out how Giuliani is the
poll-leader for the Republican nomination, a fact which means absolutely
nothing. All many people in middle America know about him is that he
didn’t pull a Ray Nagin on 9/11 – he stoically shepherded his city through
that dark hour – and that he rendered a captivating, earthy speech at the
2004 Republican National Convention. And on his list of credits I’ll add
that after ferociously battling the mafia as a United States Attorney, he
followed suit as mayor and cleaned up NYC, reducing crime and improving
quality of life.
This is all well and good but, unfortunately,
Giuliani only looks palatable when viewed through the narrow prism of
these few events. And sometime very soon the average Republican voter will
learn something: Liberal NY Republicans are different from liberal NY
Democrats. They have an “R” next to their names.
As mayor, Giuliani never missed a chance to march
in the “Gay Pride” parade. He actively supported “gay rights” and said he
was “proud” of his domestic partnership initiative (a step toward
anti-marriage). Most egregiously, he once
opined
that homosexuality is “good and normal.”
Giuliani also favored government funding for
abortion and said that the type of infanticide known as “partial-birth
abortion” should not be outlawed in NY. And while he now says he is
“personally opposed to abortion,” he also once
asserted,
“I'd give my daughter the money for it [an abortion].” I guess he thinks
his kids should have the right to choose and receive Big Daddy funding.
Giuliani has also been an advocate of abridging
Second Amendment rights and, more odious still, showed his
end-justifies-the-means lawyer colors, exercising his mayoral power to the
end of filing suit against the gun industry. He has supported the type of
invidious discrimination known as affirmative action and has opposed
school prayer and tuition tax credits. He at one time said he endeavors to
resurrect the spirit of Rockefeller Republicanism and that he would
consider endorsing Bill Clinton,
stating
“most of Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine.” Then, he
did in fact endorse ultra-liberal NY governor Mario Cuomo in 1994. And, as
damnable as anything else, Giuliani upheld policies that make NYC a
sanctuary city for illegal aliens. Anyway, enough about that. You get the
idea.
My point is that Giuliani’s golfer
son, Andrew, has more of a chance of winning the
Masters
(he is a phenomenal player) than father does of capturing the
Republican nomination. Allow me to lend this some perspective.
The hate-America-first crowd likes to say,
perhaps when pondering the political prospects of Lady Macbeth and
Brokeback Obama, that no woman or black person could be elected president.
And given the nature of these two individuals, it may be lamentable that
this is not so. But now let’s talk about something unprecedented that
actually is impossible.
To the best of my knowledge:
– No pro-abortion candidate has ever won the
Republican nomination.
– Nobody who has been in bed with the homosexual
lobby has ever won the Republican nomination.
– Nobody who has opposed Second Amendment rights
has ever won the Republican nomination.
And some think a man saddled with all three
negatives will do so in 2008?
What I find truly amazing is that this reality
escapes Giuliani. What is this man thinking? Does he fancy that the
average Republican voter is a
Times Echo?
Talk about believing your own press clippings.
The only interesting aspect of the Giuliani
coverage is why the media would press forward, seemingly oblivious to the
man’s inviability. The obvious answer is that it’s an alluring story, as
Giuliani has a marquee name and a scintillating, romantic persona. It’s
also possible some in the Shill Media wish to secure a Hillary versus Rudy
match-up, thereby ensuring that a liberal will take the oath of office in
2009. Then there’s the fact that press lunkheads live such an insular
existence, surrounded by so many fellow travelers, that they start to view
themselves as the true center. They then come to believe they represent a
fair cross-section of America. My guess, though, is that the coverage is
probably attributable to all of the above.
Anyway, I
don’t know what Giuliani’s presidential “exploratory committee” told him a
while back, but I could have provided the truth at a tenth the cost. Mr.
Mayor, you’d stand a better chance running as an independent; then you
might at least be able to make a respectable showing. But, really, you’d
be best off devoting your resources to any PGA Tour ambitions your son may
be nursing. You miss left far too much to be a contender.
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