McCain: Giuliani has no national security experience

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Flashback: McCain Himself Said That Rudy Has No National Security Experience

By Greg Sargent - June 18, 2008, 2:50PM

Okay, this Rudy-as-counter-terror genius story just keeps on giving.

The latest: It turns out that John McCain himself even said that Rudy has no national security experience.

As we've noted here repeatedly, the McCain campaign -- for reasons known only to itself -- has made Rudy the front man for the campaign's national security message that Barack Obama isn't equipped to defend America from terrorism.

But here's what McCain had to say about Rudy's expertise, or lack thereof, on national security last September:

"I think the nation respects the mayor's leadership after 9/11, and I do, too, and I think he displayed leadership at a time that Americans needed some steady hand, and I think that his conduct was very laudatory following 9/11," Mr. McCain said, when asked why so many voters identify Mr. Giuliani with the issue of terrorism.

But he went on to say: "I don't think it translates, necessarily, into foreign policy or national security expertise. I know of nothing in his background that indicates that he has any experience in it, with him or Romney."

If even McCain himself knows full well that Rudy has no "national security expertise," then why is the McCain campaign making Rudy its voice of authority on the question of who can best defend America?

The talking points -- not to mention the gag lines -- write themselves on this one.

Late Update: There's more! Here's McCain on Fox News in November, questioning Rudy's decision to quit the Iraq Study Group and attacking his paucity of national security experience...

(Video: http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/flashback_mccain_himself_said.php">McCain Questions Rudy's Experience, Knowledge, Background)

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[grantcart]

1. lol this is the flip side of those fun primaries lol

[rinsd]

2. K&R

[blondeatlast]

3. Ya can't make this stuff up! Oh, cripes, I'm laughing so hard!

OMG... :rofl:

[ProSense]

5. .

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[Ian David]

4. I'm waiting for McCain to appoint Heckuva Job Brownie to his campaign. n/t

[blondeatlast]

6. C'mon, he's smarter--nevermind. nt

[Starbucks Anarchist]

7. Google and YouTube will sink McCain.

[ProSense]

9. McCain isn't aware of the impact of technology on his

weather vane.

[blondeatlast]

8. k, since a dupe showed up. nt

[ProSense]

10. I'm still

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[blondeatlast]

11. k

[ProSense]

12. Wow, McCain sure knows how to pick them

Fred "dumb as hell" Thompson?