Mayor G has somewhat “flamed” since last Fall, owing most likely to his refusal to accept the advice of his more rational, albeit opportunistic, staff. Sad. But I can remember when he blew off 200 upstate dedicated gray-haired Republican women, in April 2000, after they’d organized a huge campaign rally for him, only so he could get to Yankee Stadium for Opening Day, which was delayed by a snowstorm. In poker, that’s a “tell” to someone’s motives and essence.

Okay: Tom Dewey failed, in 1944 and 1948, against two different opponents, to win election as a crimefighter. You can’t count Estes Kefauver as a crimefighter, but he lost, too. Barry Goldwater and George Wallace failed in their runs as “anti-communist” (“terrorists” in today’s lingo) candidates.

Ans.: Richard Nixon was the last candidate to successfully use crimefighting and fear of communism/terrorism in winning the presidency. And he won only due to Wallace’s siphoning away traditional Dem votes from Hubert in the Old South. Comparisons between RMN and Rudy are welcome, but I think the similarities end with their law degrees.

This election year should be fun for at least three more weeks.

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Egg on their face again. BTW…There is No Republican Party in NY State.

Many GOP Chairs are already delegates for other Presidential Candidates – as early as the fall they were lining up. Thus a split was already in the works in the NY State GOP Party.