Taibbi: Rudy, worse than bush
Giuliani: Worse Than Bush
He’s cashing in on 9/11, working with Karl Rove’s henchmen and in
cahoots with a Swift Boat-style attack on Hillary. Will Rudy Giuliani
be Bush III?
Matt Taibbi
Early Wednesday, May 16th, Charleston, South Carolina. The scene is a
town-hall meeting staged by GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani,
only a day after he wowed a patriotic Republican crowd at a
nationally televised debate with a righteous ass-kicking of the
party’s latest Hanoi Jane, terrorist sympathizer Ron Paul. A bump in
the polls later, “America’s Mayor” is back on the campaign trail –
in a room packed with standard-issue Adorable Schoolchildren, in this
case beatific black kids in elementary school uniforms with wide eyes
and big RUDY stickers pinned to their oblivious breasts.
Giuliani has good stage presence, but his physical appearance is
problematic — virtually neckless, all shoulders and forehead and
overbite, with a hunched-over, Draculoid posture that recalls, oddly
enough, George W. Bush, the vestigial stoop of a once-chubby kid who
grew up hiding tittie pictures from nuns. Not handsome, not cuddly,
if he wins this thing it’s going to be by projecting toughness and
man-aura. But all presidential candidates have to play the baby-
kissing game, and here is an early chance for Rudy to show his softer
side.
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