Giuliani Loses Edge in 'Crucial' Florida (HaHa suck it Rudy)

[AlCzervik]

Prospects of a Rudy Giuliani win in Florida are not looking good as the largely dormant candidate finally tries to spark public interest while other Republican contenders build on already established momentum.

Fri, Jan. 25, 2008 Posted: 13:23:43 PM EST

Prospects of a Rudy Giuliani win in Florida are not looking good as the largely dormant candidate finally tries to spark public interest while other Republican contenders build on already established momentum.

Giuliani, who finished in single digits in every contest so far, took a political gamble by basically skipping out in early voting states to pursue Florida and Super Tuesday states. The former New York City mayor has called the sunny state “crucial” and experts widely think a loss would badly damaged or even cut short his campaign.

New polls out Thursday show Giuliani competing for third with financially exhausted Mike Huckabee, who is barely campaigning in the state, and behind John McCain and Mitt Romney who are in a head-to-head battle for first place.

“Rudy has fallen like the Dow Jones industrial average,” Bill Adair, chief editor of the St. Petersburg Times, said on CNN’s “American Morning.” “What’s happened is he gambled on Florida and put all his chips on Florida, and it’s beginning to look like he gambled wrong.”

Last fall, Giuliani had been the party’s frontrunner and expected shoo-in for the Republican nomination. Talks of Giuliani representing the Republican Party sparked outrage among conservatives who threatened to abandon the party if the pro-abortion and pro-gay rights former mayor was selected.
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[tridim]

1. Worst. Candidate. Ever.

Well proabably not, but he's right up there in the top 5.

Rudolph is a joke.

[rockymountaindem]

2. I'd gloat, but Rudy's loss is just another one of their candidates' gain

And that's nothing to be happy about, either.

[AlCzervik]

3. i'm still going to enjoy his loss and then the beat down of either Romney or McCain in the general.

i'm cynically optimistic.

[leftynyc]

4. Me too

I'm enjoying his fall from grace. Not very gracious of me but that man makes me sick. Wait until he loses New York - that will be very sweet.

[AlCzervik]

5. no one deserves public shaming more then well except for Bush.

His whole profiting from 9/11 is just unforgivable and for that reason alone i hate him.

[leftynyc]

8. A public shaming would be sweet

Losing New York would be so karmicly beautiful. I hear McCain is ahead but polls mean nothing these days.

[tridim]

6. Will the FDNY protest him?

If they do that'll be so much fun to watch.

[leftynyc]

7. I think you can count on that

They are royally pissed. New York pissed. That he wont own up to his not getting the equipment needed for the various emergency personnel to commuicate, that he said he spent as much time at ground zero as the firefighters (some who were looking for the bodies of their sons) when he actually spent more time at Yankee Stadium, etc. New York pissed.