Giuliani vs. Clinton?
Filed under: US Elections
The U.S. presidential elections of 2008 are showing signs of perhaps being one of the most significant in all of American history.
Rudy Giuliani is now beginning to argue that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee, and that he's the only Republican in the current field who can beat her. He could be right, especially on given Barack Obama's just-plain-crazy decision to stop wearing the American flag.
9/11 hero Giuliani has three main drawbacks as a candidate: (1) his messy personal life; (2) his moderate social views; (3) his last name ends in a vowel. But if Clinton is his opponent, her personal life is just as messy, and the intense, fire-breathing hatred she inspires in the Republican right flank could cause them to overlook and forgive Giuliani's moderation. If they hold firm, then his moderation would be lethal weapon, enabling him to collect lots of moderate Democratic votes from people who think Clinton is soft on foreign policy (while suffering few moderate Republican defections). The G-man might even have a shot at winning New York State, a traditional blue bastion. And while Giuliani has his vowel, Clinton has her gender to overcome. If they run against each other, one of America's prejudices will surely fall.
Think about the nature of such a contest: Try to remember the last time there was a presidential race with (a) no incumbent and (b) no southerner at the top of the ticket -- much less two New Yorkers. Hard, isn't it? This novelty alone would make the election compelling. (To see how far gone the moonbat New York Times set is, they actually oppose having their own mayor in the race even though New York has lost a massive amount of electoral votes over the past few decades and become an increasingly marginal player on the national scene; they're willing to sell out their own neighbors to put forth their crazed ideology of hatred, bile and arrogance. Seems like they're afraid of him.)
And then there's the boiling international scene, from Burma to Iran to Russia, that would face the candidate who reaches the Oval Office. An enormous amount is at stake. Which one do you think would be more likely to effectively support Publius Pundit's agenda of promoting democracy?
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