Liberals are very afraid that a year from today, Rudy Giuliani might be the President-elect. Philip Klein detailed their growing fear in this morning’s Wall Street Journal and says their rants actually help Giuliani:
With the end of the dreaded Bush era approaching, Rudy Giuliani has slowly begun to supplant the president as the leading hate figure among liberals, a reality that will only help Mr. Giuliani in his efforts to overcome his differences with conservatives and win the Republican nomination.
Within the past month, The New Republic, The Nation and The Washington Monthly have all run anti-Giuliani cover stories, with the last one declaring that, “as president, Giuliani would grab even more executive power than Bush and Cheney.”
In the Boston Globe, James Carroll wrote of Mr. Giuliani, “He’s like a gang leader now, roving the streets, looking for some punk to bash. Iran will do.”
This sentiment has dominated liberal blogs, where a general consensus has formed that Mr. Giuliani would be the worst president imaginable. Mr. Giuliani’s decision to include neoconservative icon Norman Podhoretz on his foreign-policy advisory team has also triggered liberal paranoia about his determination to attack Iran. Lost in all the fuss is the fact that Charles Hill, a Yale professor, is actually Mr. Giuliani’s top adviser. What Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Hill have both emphasized is that if America makes it clear that it will not hesitate to use military force, diplomacy has a much more realistic chance of succeeding. Not that this line of reasoning would win over any of his critics on the left.
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The irony, of course, is that the more vocal, vicious and unfounded the liberal attacks on Mr. Giuliani become, the easier it is for him to make his case to conservative primary voters that they agree on a lot more than they disagree. Mr. Giuliani has often cited his liberal foes to burnish his own conservative credentials.
It is interesting to note that November 4, 2009, is both Election Day here next year and the twenty-ninth anniversary of our embassy being taken over in Tehran.
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