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This election cycle has seen its conventional wisdom bonfires. Hillary’s inevitability: gone. Obama’s insurmountable lead in New Hampshire: gone. McCain’s summer of death: long gone. But the most brazen assault on the most conventional wisdom of all—Giuliani’s Read More...
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Sometimes it seems like the campaigns have an unofficial contest to see who can place their signs in the most unlikely/dangerous places. I spotted three Rudy Giuliani signs in a row, planted in the snow on the median of a four-lane highway here. (Wish Read More...
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Months before caucus mania descended on the country, various story lines were floated by the political media to try and create a little drama. But now that the caucuses are upon us, it's worth a look back at the story fads that turned out to be useless. Read More...
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For weeks Mike Huckabee has avoided Tim Russert while touring the Sunday-morning talk-show circuit. NBC’s Washington bureau chief has lobbied hard to get Huckabee on Meet the Press , but Huckabee has shied away from Russert’s withering Q&A. Until Read More...
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America has a tradition of waging wars on two fronts. First there were the European and Pacific fronts during WWII. In the '60s and '70s, the United States attacked communism overtly in Vietnam and covertly in Latin America. And these days, we're fighting Read More...
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Now that Mike Huckabee set the tone with his Jesus-invoking, subliminal cross -including Christmas ad, everyone else is climbing aboard. Barack Obama’s holiday spot plants him and his family in front of a roaring hearth and a giant Christmas tree. No Read More...
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At his anticipated "Tested. Ready. Now" speech in Tampa on Saturday, Rudy Giuliani offered a refrain practically lifted from Larry the Cable Guy : We’re at war. The American people want to see victory in Iraq and Afghanistan, not humiliation and defeat. Read More...
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Never accuse Rudy Giuliani of failing to keep it real. They should do a two-for-one with temporary tattoos of Rudy's face. Get yours here . This actually reminds me of one of my favorite Giuliani-themed rap lyrics, from the song " Rise of the Machines Read More...
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Before the debate, I cobbled together a list of things to expect , all of which predicted that the candidates would be looking to draw contrasts three weeks before the caucus. Boy was I was wrong. The only fireworks were between Fred Thompson and the Read More...
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So Rudy Giuliani survived his Meet the Press interrogation Sunday. Moderator Tim Russert needled all the mayor’s tender spots: Giuliani’s hiring of Bernie Kerik as police commissioner, ties between Giuliani’s firm and Qatar, his decision to assign a security Read More...
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Quick follow-up to our earlier item about Giuliani's new ad, in which he discusses the Iranian hostage crisis. He omits his usual line about the mullahs looking into Ronald Reagan's eyes in 1981 and releasing the American hostages they had held for 444 Read More...
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Giuliani has a new ad running in New Hampshire in which he tells one of his favorite anecdotes. When Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president, Iranian mullahs had been holding American hostages for 444 days. “The one hour in which they released them was Read More...
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The National Intelligence Estimate reported yesterday that Iran isn't pursuing the nukes the Bush administration once thought they were. Predictably, the candidates quickly blasted out statements celebrating the news. But politically, not all of the candidates Read More...
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The lead story (as of 4:30 p.m.) on CNNPolitics.com has a headline that seems like a veiled insult at Politico.com, its web-journalism competitor. Referring to Politico's agenda-setting story on Giuliani's questionable expense allocations after trips Read More...
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Both Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney are out with new ads today, following up on yesterday’s debate in which the two candidates tussled like hyperactive siblings. Rudy’s, titled “ Promise ,” is pretty straightforward, pitching his experience in New York Read More...
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Using transcripts from CNN and the New York Times debate analyzer , I crunched some stats from last night's GOP debate. 3: Number of times Hillary Clinton was mentioned 4: Number of times Bill Clinton was mentioned 2: Number of times Mitt Romney mentioned Read More...
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What is it with Massachusetts governors and convicted killers? Back in 1988, a hapless Michael Dukakis buckled after George H.W. Bush managed to turn a murder committed Willie Horton, a convict released under a Massachusetts furlough program, into a major Read More...
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Rudy Giuliani got the memo about the importance of early primary states. He's just choosing to ignore it. While Iowa and New Hampshire are crucial states for most Republican candidates, Rudy Giuliani thinks of them more as a nuisance. Giuliani's campaign Read More...
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For the past few months, Rudy Giuliani has been repeating the same refrain. Some variation of "I'm not a perfect candidate" has become the Giuliani motto. He uses it as a blanket mea culpa to convince conservative voters worried about his social positions Read More...
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Hillary Clinton’s camp is positively afloat over the new NBC News/ WSJ poll . Bush’s ratings remain in the dumps, half of Americans want a Democratic president (as opposed to 35 percent who want a Republican commander-in-chief), and it looks like Clinton’s Read More...
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