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Rudy’s a hit with GOP delegates

Posted by: Brian Tumulty - Posted in 2008, Barack Obama, John McCain, Republican National Convention on Sep 03, 2008

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani hailed his friend Sen. John McCain tonight as the right leader for turbulent times and McCain’s vice presidential choice as a reformer ready to change the federal government, writes Gannett New Service reporter Ellyn Ferguson from St. Paul, Minn.

“You’re hiring someone to do a job, an important job that involves the safety of you and your family,” Giuliani said as he stood before a video backdrop of the Manhattan skyline.

Giuliani brought convention delegates to their feet several times with his critique of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

Steven Alfasi and Wayne Baden of Tuckahoe used baseball analogies to describe the former mayor’s speech.

“Tonight, Rudy was Babe Ruth at the plate,” Alfasi told GNS. “That wasn’t a home run, it was a … grand slam.”

Said Baden: “He knocked this one out of the ballpark. He was fabulous, just fabulous.”

Delegates laughed as Giuliani painted a stark contrast between McCain, who spent nearly six years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and more than 20 years in the Senate and Obama, a first-term senator who spent his early years as a community organizer.

“John McCain can face the enemy,” Giuliani said. “He can win and bring victory to this county.”

 
 
 
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5 Responses to “Rudy’s a hit with GOP delegates”


  1. Jiminy Cricket

    Excellent speeches by Rudy and Sarah Palin. They showed Obama to be the wannabe emperor (or Messiah) with no clothes—but still with those phony Roman columns borrowed from the old set of Ben-Hur.

    I also think Huckabee was good, and that Romney was fair.

  2. Tim Hays

    Nice mixed metaphor-cum-simile, Jiminy—although it might better be described as “color” or “imagery.” In any case, your words are effective. And right-on.

    You and I are kindred souls.

    Only thing missing from our GOP Convention: a powerful Black American speaker—someone such as Jim Coleman, a really admirable guy with a great, compelling All-America story to tell. (His family has been in the United States longer than yours or mine.) Or the dynamic woman, a physician from NY, who in 1976 seconded Reagan’s nomination in the most exciting national convention in our lifetimes, at Kansas City.

  3. 7curses

    rudi must have been wearing a nice shade of republican lipstick and i sure he had a picture of bernie on his dress

  4. the consultant

    Rudy was fabulous…he had the convention rocking
    he pointed to Obama’s flip floping on the capital
    of jerusalem, on the russian invasion of georgia
    he noted that Obama had zero experience running
    anything..not a business, not a government,
    not a military unit, nothing..nada
    being president requires experience in decision making
    Obama voted present 130 times in the illinois
    state legislature..that means he avoided making
    up his mind 130 times..as rudy pointed out there
    is no such thing as present when you are president
    to keep the country safe…to fight global islamic
    terrorist threats and to let the world know
    that the US is still the beacon for democracy for
    all who are oppressed

  5. Jiminy Cricket

    Tim, Steele (I forget his first name) spoke well last night. But the cable nets talked over it. But PBS carried his speech.

    Fox must have lost a lot of viewers last night because Hannity and Colmes talked over the speeches of both Romney and Huckabee. The others aired them without interruption. Bad move by Fox.



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