THE PLANK OCTOBER 1, 2007
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To pick up on that interesting New York Times piece Jason linked to, I recently had my own experience illustrating the depth of conservative-elite hostility to Giuliani. A couple of months ago, I was chatting with a mainstream-conservative political writer about whether the GOP could really nominate Giuliani. He told me he thought they could. But, if they did, he said he would consider voting for Hillary, whom he assumed would be the Democratic nominee. Despite his deep suspicion of her, she actually struck him as better on everything from abortion to Iraq and the war on terror. Anyway, for what it's worth...
Update: In fairness, Salon's Michael Scherer was one of the first out of the gate with this story.
--Noam Scheiber
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but nothing would fill me with greater joy (politically speaking) than the Christianist conservative movement shooting themselves in the foot by nominating a third-party candidate. It would kill two birds with one stone by simultaneously decimating their influence with the GOP leadership and getting the Democrats into the White House.
- drdannyu
October 1, 2007 at 12:19pm
than a third party Taliban candidate would be for Dobson and his ilk to compromise with the devil and get behind Giuliani instead. That would reveal the true, cynical and hateful nature of the religious right wing. These people believe in the gospel of their own political power -- they will ride God's coattails, or Rudy's, and rationalize it as the same thing. Just watch.
- purcellneil
October 1, 2007 at 1:10pm
If it is Hillary against Rudy I will order a bumpersticker. Clinton vs. Guiliani: Please kill me.
- blackton
October 1, 2007 at 2:49pm