Rudy "Thank God for Bush" Giuliani on the 06 Midterms: "I don't see this as a defining election"

[Human Torch]

If you were wondering how former mayor Rudy Giuliani feels after the thumpin' the Republicans took last week, wonder no more, because he's been facing it with the same, stubborn Rudy-vision that we all remember from his NYC mayoral years. The NY Times was on the scene for a speech Giuliani made:

In his first public comments about last week’s Democratic sweep of Congress, Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former Republican mayor of New York City, who is a possible 2008 presidential candidate, said on Sunday that he did not view the election as a major rebuke to his party. But he said that Republicans “have to go back to your principles in figuring out how you react to something like this.”

Mr. Giuliani’s comments came at a news conference at Wilkes University, where he delivered the keynote address at a leadership conference sponsored by the university’s Jay S. Sidhu School of Business and Leadership.

“I don’t see this election, anymore than the one two years ago or the one four years ago, as a defining election,” said Mr. Giuliani, who stumped for some two dozen Republican Congressional candidates during the campaign.

Most of them lost in a nationwide wave of defeats that put Democrats in control of both the House and the Senate.

There's that Rudymism! We're uncertain where he's been taking the nation's temperature, but if he wants to run for President, maybe he'll take the blinders off.

http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/11/13/rudy_denial_is.php

[whirlygigspin]

1. OH Good!

I hope every gay organizing endorses Rudy.

Rudy! we love ya!

go Rudy go!

[Lasher]

2. I wonder if he would give us an example of what a defining election is.

Sure did define who the Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader are, didn't it?

Right wing denial has run amuck! Run for your lives!!

[orleans]

3. HEY! he's a good catholic family values kind o guy!

(who just happened to fuck around on his wife, move in with his mistress, and inform the world at a press conference that he had filed for divorce--before he told his wife! oops!)

[MattSh]

4. That's the GOP way !!

Nothing unusual there !!