Category Archives: Politics: US: 2008 Elections

Good questions, on the whole, from the public. See the videos, question by question.

Notorious dog-owner Mitt Romney has advice for people who — remembering 9/11 — think it's wrong for him to compare US Senators to Osama Bin Laden (or, if you prefer, for him to fail to condemn those of his supporters who glory in the comparison): “Lighten Up”.

Much that is rancid about the state of mainstream American journalism is exemplified by this article in today's Washington Post, Hillary Clinton's Tentative Dip Into New Neckline Territory, which begins,

There was cleavage on display Wednesday afternoon on C-SPAN2. It belonged to Sen. Hillary Clinton.

It's enough to make you shrill.

R. Milhous Giuliani — that's how Michael Gerson characterizes the current GOP front-runner, and I think he nails it on substantive, stylistic, and not least emotional grounds.

As president, Nixon was a talented man without an ideological compass, mainly concerned with the accumulation of power. … And, as with Nixon, Giuliani's combativeness, on occasion, blurs into pettiness.

Richard Milhous Giuliani. Just trips off the tongue…

The one thing that Howard Kurtz is good for is memorializing the conventional wisdom. Today he administers last rites to the McCain campaign in light of his cash crisis followed by the defections of several senior figures from the campaign.

You heard it here back in March. (See also McCain's madness.)

1) Fred Thompson knocked up his high school girlfriend out of wedlock. They got married and subsequently divorced before Thompson married his current wife, 24 years his junior.
source 1 and source 2.

2) Rudy Giuliani's first wife (of three) was his second cousin (Regina Peruggi). They were married for 14 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani

3) Ron Paul has more cash on hand for his campaign than John McCain.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/07/ron-paul-tops-m.html.

4) Rudy Giuliani has been married more times (3 times) than Mitt Romney has gone hunting (2 times).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani
http://democrats.org/a/2007/04/more_money_same.php

5) Fred Thompson once worked as a lobbyist for the pro-choice National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association. Not terribly shocking given that, to varying degrees, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and even John McCain have all offered pro-choice commentary.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/07/us/politics/07thompson.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/10/114157/044

6) Rudy Giuliani is the cross-dressingest public servant since J. Edgar Hoover.
http://www.myspace.com/rudyinadress

7) According to their Wikipedia pages, Fred Thompson (2), Rudy Giuliani (3), John McCain (2), and Newt Gingrich (3) combine to average 2.5 marriages each.