Ya Think?
By The punchline to this Times article about Giuliani’s fundraising-for-personal-debt-relief racket is so strange that it makes me wonder if the banality is actually deadpan humor:
Political analysts say that Mr. Giuliani’s once prolific fund-raising abilities have been hampered by several factors. Perhaps most significant is the fact that Mr. Giuliani neither holds a position in government nor is a candidate for public office. Both qualities are attractive to donors who are looking for access to government.
I tell ya, it’s good that we have such razor-sharp political analysts to reach such counter-intuitive conclusions! Similarly, I have found my fundraising efforts hampered by the fact that I’m not pursuing and, in some cases, am constitutionally ineligible to hold political office, and I’ve wondered why that is. As a “political analyst” myself, let me present a hypothetical phone call that may explain the puzzle of why Giuliani’s fundraising has declined:
RUDY!: “Hi, I’m doing some fundraising.”
GOP FAT CAT: “For what?”
R!: [Pause] “Look, just give me ten grand! These bills don’t pay themselves!”
[click]
R!: “Hello?”
[exeunt.]
Hmm, I think I’m beginning to see the problem here.