In last week’s Florida GOP debate, they asked Rudy about those dastardly words the New York Times offered him in their McCain endorsement. Rudy, with only one not-entirely-bullshit card to play, was proud — the New York Times, see, is for gays and Clintons and crippled hobbits. Now he’s actually running with that idea — that liberal newspapers are in gay-love with John McCain. And if a=b=c and you carry the zero and pigs fly, that means conservatives must automatically like Rudy Giuliani! There’s no 9/11 in this ad, but the new flavor of suffocating strategy — that he is the best because he has no endorsements — might… make the kids like him more?

This guy, Giuliani. I’m going to be sad when he gets third or fourth or ninth or whatever in Florida, a.k.a. “Rudy Country,” as Rudy named it. He’ll probably have to drop out or something when he loses, and that means an end to the constant development of new ways to reference 9/11. Here’s a notable line from a New York Times piece this morning: “On Tuesday he suggested that Florida with its hurricanes and New York with its terrorist attacks are brothers in disaster.” Hey Rudy — I have nothing to eat for lunch, does that mean we are brothers in disaster too? [New York Times]

Rudy has only ever campaigned in Florida, and now he’s in fourth place there, according to a new American Research Group poll. He’s losing everywhere and to everyone, and he can’t stop doing this. But there is some silver lining. MORE »