INCREDIBLY DESPERATE Romney general election campaign event tomorrow with Rudy Giuliani

[ProgressiveEconomist]

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INCREDIBLY DESPERATE Romney general election campaign event tomorrow with Rudy Giuliani

May 1st is the anniversary of President Obama's gutsy call, against the advice of the CIA and Defense Secretary Gates, to greenlight a raid deep inside Pakistan that successfully delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

Instead of remaining silent about Obama's victory lap for that long-sought triumph, Mitt Romney is going to Manhattan to try to COMPETE with the celebration of bin Laden's and Al-Quaeda's defeat.

IMO this is the first HUGE mistake of Romney's general election campaign. It will make Romney seem small and petty compared to a Democratic President who did in three years what his Republican predecessor could not do in eight. It will remind voters of what both Romney and Dubya often said--that it would be unwise to 'move heaven and earth' to try to defeat one man.

And it will revive the discussion of just why there was a gigantic void in Presidential leadership most of the day on 9/11/01 for Rudy Giulani to fill opportunistically.

Dubya was scurrying in terror from hidey-hole to hidey-hole. The World Trade Center attacks started at 8:46am, but no comment came from the White House until late afternoon. And national executive leadership from the Republicans was so chaotic that the first WH comment came not from the President, not from the VP, not from Condi Rice, but from obscure Counselor to the President Karen Hughes (See http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/09/karen-hughes-remembers-11-terror-attacks/ ).

WHAT's YOUR OPINION?

From http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2012/04/romneygiuliani-now-whos-politi.php

"Romney/Giuliani: Now Who's Politicizing 9/11?
By Michael Hirsh April 30, 2012 | 3:53 PM

President Obama's been taking a lot of flack ... for his campaign's new Osama bin Laden anniversary ad, which offers up a Bill Clinton-narrated account of Obama's lonely decision to order SEAL Team 6 in a year ago, and then raises questions about whether Mitt Romney would have done the same. A statement from two Romney advisors said they were 'saddened' to see 'the president of the United States politicize that event.' ...

So it seems fair to point out that when it comes to politicizing 9/11 it's hard to beat Rudy Giuliani, who will be at Romney's side on the one-year anniversary of bin Laden's death. Giuliani and the presumptive GOP nominee plan to appear at a plainly political event Tuesday complete with New York firefighters as props. ... Romney also dismissively said today that 'of course' he would have ordered bin Laden's killing and then, with his usual ear for resonant rhetoric, volunteered that 'even Jimmy Carter' would have done so. But it also seems fair to point out that back in 2008 ... Romney criticized Obama's aggressive statements about pursuing al Qaeda into Pakistan, which the president himself alluded to today in remarks at a photo op. And that's where bin Laden was found: in Pakistan.

'I just recommend that everybody take a look at people's previous statements,' Obama said...."

[panader0]

1. It's hard to imagine that anyone would view Giuliani as being an asset-----I mean it

I agree that it is a huge mistake for the Rmoney campaign, but what's new?

[ProgressiveEconomist]

10. Who's he gonna call? Did you see Lawrence O'Donnell's MSNBC show Monday night"

About 20 minutes in, EJ Dionne of the Washington Post points out the brilliance of the Obama campaign's choice of Bill Clinton to question Romney's foreign policy judgment in a new "OBL is Dead" ad. For Dionne, the ad says, "Here's our surrogate--who's yours?" John McCain? Dubya? Dick Cheney?

[C_U_L8R]

2. What did Rudy do on 9/11...

except hide in a basement???

[ProgressiveEconomist]

4. At 10:57am, on TV station NY1, Giuliani made the first of

several public statements that day.

That beat the White House's public response time by almost five hours.

See http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=rudolph_(_rudy_)_giuliani

[alcibiades_mystery]

17. I made my first public statement at 8:46 am, watching a plane fly into the North Tower

from the corner of Chambers and Broadway.

I believe it was slightly less eloquent than Giuliani's statement of several hours later, at a rough "Holy fucking shit!"

Of course, I'm a New Yorker from the Outer Boros, so I remember when Rudy has his surrogates out urging the white ethnics in Queens to "Fuck the Mooley, vote for Giuli" re: David Dinkins. A real class act, America's Mayor...

[ProgressiveEconomist]

18. "America's Mayor"--with a truly chilling smile. Remember what he called his predecessor

David Dinkins? "The washroom attendant".

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

24. Giuliani did a masterful acting job

Hunching his shoulders and walking around New York like he meant business and waving at people beyond camera range, some of whom weren't even there. It was like the Blair Witch Project with simulated reality.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

3. Correction to OP: Karen Hughes supplied the first WH response to the attacks not

"that evening" but rather in "late agternoon", namely, at 3:55pm.

See http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=karen_hughes :

"3:55 p.m. September 11, 2001: President Bush Said to Be at Undisclosed Location
White House adviser Karen Hughes briefly speaks to the media and says President Bush is at an undisclosed location, taking part in a video conference. This is possibly the only in-person media appearance by any Bush administration official since the attacks and until a news conference by Defense Secretary Rumsfeld at 6:40 p.m. (CNN, 9/12/2001, at http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/chronology.attack/ ).

[JoePhilly]

5. 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11,

[lonestarnot]

6. Bwwwaaa ha ha ha ha ROFLMAO!

[ProgressiveEconomist]

11. Did you see MSNBC's 'Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell' Monday night? The first 10 minutes

was devoted to the upcoming Romney-Giulani attempted hijacking of President Obama's victory against bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

O'Donnell's panel was incredulous.

[lonestarnot]

12. Listening with 1/2 an ear now.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

14. Tonight's LWWLO has to be the best single hour of political TV I've seen in years. In addition

to covering Romney-Giulani, O'Donnell had segments on

--the absence of any Republican surrogate for Romney that might come close to Bill Clinton's bad cop for good copBarack Obama;

--nailing Paul Ryan trying to deny his lifelong devotion ro and proselytizing for Ayn Rand's atheistic worship of greed;

--Lily Ledbetter's explanation of how the USSC changed the law on her;

and a couple of other hard-hitting topics.

[lonestarnot]

15. I agree it is up there! However would disagree with the best single hour.

[lonestarnot]

13. I'm loving the Ayn Rand and Paul Ryan bit!

[bluestate10]

7. Let Romney photoop with Rudy the Slime.

The fact is, most americans despise Rudy now.

[krispos42]

8. A noun, a verb, and nine-eleven

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

9. These guys as props? http://firefightersfor911truth.org/

That would be interesting...

[Jimdish25]

20. Props

If this starts to reek of the staged Bush photo-ops with Firefighters and Troops it's just going to remind people of the shallow opportunism and incompetence of the bad ole days. No one politicized war and tragedy like Rove and Bush.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. Two cafoni, as my father would say

Cafone (pronounced, correctly, as ka-phone-ay). Plural:cafoni. That's what Giuliani and Romney are: a couple of cafoni.

[KharmaTrain]

19. Mitten's Phony Friends...

I bet we could come up with a dozen of these disengenuous photo-ops of Willard with some GOTB "icon". Be it Trump or Rudeee or Nooot or Poppy bush...you can see the lack of any chemistry between Willard and the others. It's all for political cover...as Mittens continues to try to sell his own corrupt and inept party on supporting him more than trying to convert others to his "cause".

Desperation? You betcha!

[ProgressiveEconomist]

21. 2 pm Tuesday -- Romney Giuliani press conference is about to start

[ecstatic]

23. "Mitt Romney, you're a racist!"

Is that what the heckler was yelling?

[ecstatic]

22. The hypocrisy is just unreal

I think we should stick with the flip flop meme and lose the severe conservative thing. The truth is, Romney is a severe flake!