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And This Man Wants to be President?

Rudy Giuliani went to Pennsylvania this weekend to try and shore up Rick Santorum’s tottering campaign for re-election to the Senate. “He really is something very, very special,” Giuliani said of Santorum. “We can't afford to lose someone like that.”

“After September 11, there is no excuse for not adequately seeing the threat,” Giuliani said in a Wilkes Barre speech Friday. “If Rick Santorum is not re-elected and his opponent is elected and people like his opponent are elected, they are going to push us very, very hard to go back on defense against terrorists rather than being on offense the way we are now.”

In an accompanying “Dear Conservative” fund raising note, Santorum pleads, “The stakes in this race are incredibly high! The choices voters will make on Tuesday will decide which party leads our country -- the common-sense, conservative leaders dedicated to defeating Islamic fascists and those who want to kill Americans, or the far-left liberal defeatists like John Kerry who will cut-and-run in the War on Terror and demoralize our troops by implying they are 'uneducated.'"

“P.S.,’’ says Santorum, “The pundits and polls have given up on me, but I know that together we can defy the odds.”

Posted by James Ridgeway on 11/05/06 at 9:14 AM | E-mail | Print | Digg | de.licio.us | Reddit | Newsvine | Yahoo! MyWeb | StumbleUpon | Netscape | Google |



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The polls and pundits have given up on Santorum for the same reason the great majority of voters have done so. This man has been a rubber stamp not only for President-select Bush, but also for all of the religious right fundamentalists who want to take our country back into the Middle Ages.

He has used a charm offensive, bullying techniques, threats of neighbourhood terrorist incursions and lying to try to win back support for his re-election. Now he shleps in Rudy Guliani who exemplifies so many traits voters reject about Santorum. The things some people will do when they are desperate to hold onto power.

Posted by: Michael D. Fein on 11/05/06 at 4:12 PM

The thought of Giuliani running for Presidency makes me physically sick to my stomach. Just how gullible they think people are? "leadership in 9/11". What nonsense! So what he stood in front of television comforting people after getting all scared after that bad prank. It's totally rediculous! There are all kinds of intelligent people, but why do we have to put up with this rediculous crap? I sincerely hope people like Giulani just crawl back under the rock they came from, and leave governing to people that qualified, genuine, passionate, and honest.

Posted by: Homer on 11/13/06 at 10:50 PM

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