Not sure if this nightmarish requiem is official, but “sources say” that America’s mayor, Rudy Giuliani — who recently ran the worst presidential campaign in American history, centered around his major career accomplishment of having the worst terrorist attack in American history strike New York City’s two tallest buildings under his watch — is planning to run for Senate in next year’s special election, to fill the last two years of Hillary Clinton’s term. This will be the snarling beast’s stepping stone to the presidency, once and for all! (No, that’s really his plan.) Everyone loves a guy who was mayor of a city 10 years ago!
This of course would be Rudy’s second run for Senate, kind of! He ran against Hillary Clinton in 2000 for a little while, but then he got prostate cancer and dropped out like a wuss. Which was great for New York City! Had he defeated Clinton and resigned as mayor, the city would’ve been completely unsafe all over again, and something like 9/11 could have happened.
Here’s the official word from a “source familiar with Giuliani’s thinking,” which could be anyone with an IQ over 40:
A source familiar with Giuliani’s thinking said the failed presidential candidate has been telling people he plans to run against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in 2010 to fill out the remaining two years of Hillary Clinton’s term.
If elected, the source said, he could use that as a stepping stone to run for President in 2012 – rather than run for re-election to the Senate.
First we take the Senate, see? Then we leave the Senate and take the White House, see? Nyuk nyuk nyuk…
He really needs to learn to be more amiable, you know? Just a really off-putting guy.
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C’mon. Fred Thompson’s campaign was worser.
This is good news for John McCain.
He’s doing that reach-around all wrong.
I hope Palin endorses him.
[re=462935]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: Yes, but to be fair, he would have won the day if he could have figured a way to campaign without getting off the couch.
Oh great. Once he’s President the whole country will be attacked.
I’m familiar with Guiliani’s thinking, too!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3135/2671077524_7b42833bc2.jpg
oh, good, I had almost forgotten about 9/11. Good time to run, too, with Kerik going in the slam.
I call bullshit!
I was mayor of a small town 10 years ago, and almost everyone around here hates me.
yay! even more lame and mundane references to 9/11.
[re=462935]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: Fred Thompson ran?
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Are you sure Rudy wasn’t also in that apartment overlooking Ground Zero with Judith Regan and Bernard Kerik? It’s as if Al Qaeda flew a plane into all three careers.
Seriously though, do you guys even remember 9/11???? He was there. HE WAS FUCKING THERE!!!1!
[re=462935]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: Oh no it wasn’t. They actually thought Rudolph could *win*.
It’s hard to be a candidate for Senate when you can only campaign from sunset to sunrise.
[re=462939]Joshua Norton[/re]: I’m sure his other hand is at ground zero.
All right, Rudy!
I’ll bet you can get twice as many NY votes as you did electoral votes in the last Presidential nomination.
Dare to dream, dweeb.
Rudy’s such a dick, any type of cancer he gets is, by definition, prostate cancer.
But, if Rudi was there, in NYC on 9/11/01, then how come he doesn’t have the creeping lung cruds like the real heroes?
People talk about Rudy like he’s a one issue candidate. But he’s not! There’s that ferret thing too. He’s got strong feelings about that. These days that’s pretty well rounded for a GOP senatorial run.
[re=462950]Brendan M.[/re]: Thompson didn’t run, he used a Hoveround.
Okay, first, the worst presidential campaign in American history had to be by that guy, what’s his, Fred? He played a prosecutor on TV? And second, Giuliani’s career accomplishment had to be sending John Gotti to jail. We should give him credit for that. Oh, and getting rid of those squeegee guys.
I’m not sure which is more disturbing, the photos y’all used to run constantly of Rudy in a dress, or this paean (i think that means what i think it means)to GOP man-love.
Ah, happier times, when Bernie had an ace in the hole.
Is Rudy gay enough and pro-baby killin’ enough that Sarah Palin will need to parachute in with Trig in one arm and a third party candidate in the other? Now the rest of the state will enjoy what the 23rd went through.
Giuliani is striking while the iron is hot. What with all the Twilight mania, his resemblance to Nosferatu is sure to work to his advantage.
[re=462939]Joshua Norton[/re]: He’s hoping to pull off a come-from-behind victory.
Rudie’sh going to run for Shenate? Thufferin thuccotath.
The mayor of Honolulu was a serious candidate for President for years and years after Pearl Harbor. Take my word for it, I’m a history major.
Giuliani/Doug Huffman 2012!!!
Man, when the New York Daily News is referring to a REPUBLICAN as “failed presidential candidate,” it really is time to hang ‘em up.
Never fear, New York mayor is the most famous dead-end job in the country.
[re=462935]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: My very first thought, also! But this guy came in a close second, and, while Fred dealt with fake felons on Law and Order, Rudy counts real felons among his friends. Bonus!
[re=462967]Extemporanus[/re]: Rudy’s such a dick, any type of cancer he gets is, by definition, prostate cancer.
Not true! He also qualifies for the Farrah Fawcett kind.
Too bad his BFF and top-FB Kerik is now playing bottom to Bubba in the slammer. No more Kerik daddy props when he’s giving his millionth 9-11 chant to some tards from Staten Island.
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk? The right’s going to love cross dressing Rudie.
Let’s see, 2 deadly terror attacks on his watch, a police riot; unarmed civilians shot to death in their own homes; finger-banged a floozie other than his wife on the public’s dime; single-handely brought down 7 World Trade Center thanks to the installation of his own personal diesel fuel storage tank in the middle of the building; public execution of homeless squeegie-men, etc., etc., etc.
Should be a shoo-in and I can’t wait.
Holy moly…I can’t stand to watch the guy talk he has such a baaad lisp. I can’t imagine him as president…YIKES!
Deploy the DICK ARMEY.
[re=463041]user-of-owls[/re]: FTW for rectal cancer reference. Well played.
[re=463128]Rotundo[/re]: Thanks! I’ll remember to put that endorsement on my vita!
[re=463041]user-of-owls[/re]: Know hope.
[re=463014]bjkeefe[/re]: I was trying to hit the CD button in the car on the way home and accidentally hit AM and who was telling me the exciting Rudy news but Sean O’Dickhead, or whatever that guy’s name is. And he had this real scoop, for asshat hate radio listeners: Rudy is going to walk away with the senate seat, no sweat. And just as well he skips running against Andrew Cuomo–And here’s the scoop! The NY guv is very unpopular and Cuomo will easily beat him. And—wait for it–Andrew Cuomo has kept himself out of the public eye . . .”well, just let me put it this way: He’s no Chuck Schumer.”
Really? The Attorney General of New York has kept his head down and done his job? Seriously? Or is it just that no one outside the northeast knows who the hell he is while Schumer is, like, a US Senator and a leader in the national party.
These blowhards just say any shit they want, call it analysis and the numbskulls like these okies believe it.
Also. “Does this sweater and ‘stache make me look gay?” “Ok, then, how about a felon…does it make me look like a felon?”
Huh…I’ve got a sweater just like that.
Cause, everyone knows that winning the presidency as a sitting senator has a long history in modern American politics…and for those few that don’t know, with the exception of Obama, that statement is completely false. I remember everyone crowing about how unique the last presidential election was because we had an old, a woman, and a black leading the pack, but the real surprise was that all of the major candidates were sitting senators.
I’ve seen gay porn that’s less gay than that photo.
Gay men have THE WORST taste in friends! Rudy is no different than a sloppy, annoying fag hag.
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