It is hard to believe that Rudy Giuliani was once “America’s Mayor”, hailed all over the nation after September 11.
In 2008, Giuliani sought the Republican nomination for President, and was perceived as a moderate mainstream Republican with some very liberal views.
But Giuliani flopped badly, after having led the polls in 2007, and being seen as a potential occupant of the Oval Office.
Giuliani has clearly deteriorated mentally and ethically since 2008, having now gone through three wives and divorces, and displaying weird, crazy behavior in recent years, particularly since tying his future to President Donald Trump,
Giuliani is now enmeshed in the Ukraine scandal, and seems likely to be indicted for corruption in his business dealings and in his work for Trump. The man who was once considered a great prosecutor now faces the likelihood of prison time, and disgrace.
It is hard to feel sympathy for Rudy Giuliani, however, as his public and private behavior has become so obnoxious and degrading, and it is obvious that Donald Trump has helped to make him yet another victim of the evil man who is ready to throw anyone and everyone under the bus. Many think Giuliani is mentally deranged and totally unstable, similar to Donald Trump.
It is now urgent that future Presidential contenders undergo mental testing, as any sane person can see that Donald Trump should have been removed from the Oval Office long ago, and by still being there, is undermining the domestic and foreign policy of America, in such a way, that it is likely to be long lasting beyond his time in office.
Ronald writes, “In 2008, [107th New York City, New York mayor Rudy] Giuliani sought the Republican nomination for President, and was perceived as a moderate mainstream Republican with some very liberal views.â€
In 2008, Rudy Giuliani—who turned 75 on May 28, 2019—was not a serious candidate for president of the United States because, first of all, he did not pursue trying to win the Iowa caucus and/or the New Hampshire presidential primary. The first was won by 44th Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. The second was won by eventual 2008 Republican presidential nominee and Arizona U.S. senator John McCain. Bypassing both, as if he had some crafty strategy to come from behind and eventually emerge victorious, was what came out of the Giuliani camp to tell his supporters to continue possibly believing he was a contender. But, no—those first two contests tend to set up a trajectory for how the rest of the presidential primaries will play out, for a given party (and, in term-limited years, both parties), in determining a political party’s presidential nomination. So, Giuliani did what a number of other candidates do—he “ran for president.†In other words: It does no one harm—especially if it helps make a book deal happen—to say, after the time has passed, “I was a candidate for president of the United States.â€
What is also worth pointing out is this: In 2008, the presidency was in the column of the Republican Party specifically with 43rd president of the United States George W. Bush. His job-approval percentage rating, if I recall correctly, was no greater than 40 percent from the point in which the Democrats won the 2006 midterm elections—a wave that reached the level of flipping new majorities for U.S. House, U.S. Senate, and U.S. Governors—and all the way through to the Tuesday, November 4, 2008 United States presidential election. You have to go back to 1918, with Democratic incumbent Woodrow Wilson, for the previous year in which a sitting president saw his party lose both houses of Congress in Year #06 of his presidency—and in a wave of a midterm election for the opposition party—and, two years later, resulted in the White House having switched parties. Yes, this occurred in 1920 (a Republican pickup of the presidency) and 2008 (a Democratic pickup of the presidency). A 2008 George W. Bush had job-approval percentages frequently in the 30s but, sometimes, he was in the 20s. What that did was effectively kill the 2008 Republican Party’s feasibility in holding the White House and winning a third consecutive election cycle. (The 2008 Democratic wave—with 44th U.S. president’s Barack Obama’s Democratic pickup of the presidency—also expanded seats in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate.) So, yes, Rudy Giuliani ran for president of the United States. And, yes, the eventual Republican nominee was John McCain. But, to be really blunt, it was reality that for every serious or non-serious 2008 Republican presidential candidate who ran…well, that candidate ran for second place.
Barr gave a speech at the University of Notre Dame’s law school on Friday that should alarm all of us who cherish the First Amendment’s guarantee against the government’s establishment of any religion.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/10/15/the-attorney-general-goes-to-war-with-the-first-amendment/
It looks like Ghouliani took Russian money.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/10/15/it-looks-like-giuliani-took-russian-money/