Like Matt, I think JMM gets this exactly right: I know I’ve said before that Romney’s profound and almost incalculable phoniness is a terrifying prospect to behold in a possible president. But the danger of phoniness, aesthetic or otherwise, cannot hold a candle to the truly catastrophic foreign policy Giuliani would likely pursue if he […]
Category: Giuliani
No, really — Bob Kerrey actually said that about the utter fraud otherwise known as Rudy Giuliani. Hmmm. Something about that quotation seems incomplete. OK, so: “Giuliani did what the preside
Eric Johnston’s op-ed making the “pro-life” argument for Giuliani is awful in many respects. It repeats many plainly erroneous assertions common to Republican opponents of reproducti
I know, I know, I am not supposed to be here today. Oh well. Rules were made to be broken. Shorter Eric Johnston in today’s NY Times: Giuliani is an abortion wingnut’s dream come true — just see how he drove smut (oh and civil liberties) out of New York when he was mayor! Johnston’s […]
It should hardly surprise anyone to learn that the Foreign Affairs piece “authored” by Giuliani is in fact an enormous load of crap, a cut-and-paste job that blends the most discredited ne
An absolute must-read article by Wayne Barrett in — I swear it, I guess for a week they decided to get away from the escort-ads-plus-Nat-Hentoff-and-Michael-Musto format they’ve been essay
I think we can all agree that Rudy Giuliani is a pathetic authoritarian who — but for the law — would have eaten his own children in the cribs where they slept, but I’m still not sure why I’m supposed to be interested his daughter’s hypothetical political views. Howie Kurtz, though, has so far managed […]
Yglesias finds Rudy Giuliani asserting an “inherent authority” to fund troops without Congressional appropriations. Evidently, it would be difficult to find a claim made by a mainstream ca
In order to maintain my centrist cred, I’ll agree with Matt and disagree with John Holbo on Rudy Giuliani’s ode to authority: We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again
Matt is right about this. Now, it must be said that when it comes to a candidate’s personal “family values” I’m strictly of the “Nice guy? I don’t give a shit. Good father? Fuck you! Go home and play with your kids” school. Personally, while there are many good reasons not to want Rudy to […]