What Made People Turn Off Rudy So Fast? Can We Do The Same For Mccain?

[Edu]

What do you people think turned off people to Rudy so fast?

The media loved him, pushed him as hard as they could and they gave him plenty of time. All the reports I saw were good to him.

But then it all went away, and fast. And in my opinion it seemed to happen about a week before Florida.

Can we use the same method to turn people off of Mccain?

 

[RonPaulFever]

All of the utter defeats in the early primaries made voters lose confidence in him. Most people don't understand even the basics of politics and campaigning, and to them a loss is a loss.

 

[nate895]

The only problem is that Giuliani never had as commanding of a lead, and he never actually technically won anything.

 

[WRellim]

Rudy never had any true "support" -- it was really nothing more than very shallow "name recognition" that was being polled.

Rudy was never actually in the race.

 

[Revolution9]

McCain is getting set to explode. There will be jowls and sputum and illegal immigrants flying everywhere while the tune of Songbird For North Vietnam twitters away rolling across the hills of the media. Just look around the intertubes.. How much more evidence do you need..

Best
Randy

 

[nike]

No real support, plus disclosures into Rudy using the NYPD to escort his mistress around the city to meet him for their affair (he was married at the time) and also the scandal involving the chief of police he wanted Bush to make the director of the Dept of Homeland Security.

Why is no one willing to talk about Huckabee helping a convicted rapist go free when he was Governor of Arkansas in 1999, then the rapist upon release raped and murdered another woman? Of course if he keeps making asinine statements like the 10 commandments are better than the constitution he may do a good enough job on himself.

 

[LibertyEagle]

McCain is getting set to explode. There will be jowls and sputum and illegal immigrants flying everywhere while the tune of Songbird For North Vietnam twitters away rolling across the hills of the media. Just look around the intertubes.. How much more evidence do you need..

Best
Randy

heh.

I'm waiting for him to blow his stack on live TV, for all to see.

 

[Akus]

To answer the thread started question, there were way too many skeletons in this guy's closet. Dressing in drag, mulitple wives, charges of fascist style leadership..... you can't win the Conservative and, obviously, Evangelical crowd, with this kind of a background.

 

[slamhead]

I don't know..perhaps the mentioning of 9/11 about a billion times.

 

[acptulsa]

heh.

I'm waiting for him to blow his stack on live TV, for all to see.

We desperately need to encourage this. The MSM will not play up his many shortcomings. We need viral videos, songbird chants at his rallies, we need anything--anything--that will burn his famously short fuse to the quick.

How anyone can vote for a man who thinks ex-K.G.B. head Vladimir Putin is "president" of Germany for leader of the free world is so far beyond me it makes my head spin.

But then again, I remember feeling the same queasiness when W practically made another Iraq invasion a campaign promise in 2000. Of course, that didn't get any press either...

 

[ambiguousscion]

He is "pro choice" and not "family values" oriented. The only thing he had going for him was his fiscal responsibility. No one really cares for the "aggressive" line he always used on the war... even most of those who supported Bush don't like the idea of invading more countries.

 

[JordanQ72]

Rudy Giuliani was leading in polling when there was nobody else running. Seriously, most voters had no clue who the hell was running last June, and the polls were basically just a name recognition fight between Rudy and McCain.

As the race drew closer, people started being familiar with other candidates, and Rudy as well. Some decided they liked others better, some discovered they never liked Rudy to begin with.

Then came the actual voting. He ignored a lot of key states early on and lost badly there, and the obvious things happened. Future voters suddenly didn't think he was a viable candidate, and others simply wanted to get behind the winner. The exit polling out of Florida was really interesting and clear on these two last points.

 

[Drknows]

911

Remember people were mocking him? He had nothing else to say.

 

[LEK]

What do you people think turned off people to Rudy so fast?

The media loved him, pushed him as hard as they could and they gave him plenty of time. All the reports I saw were good to him.

But then it all went away, and fast. And in my opinion it seemed to happen about a week before Florida.

Can we use the same method to turn people off of Mccain?

McCain in a dress flirting with Donald Trump would clinch it for me...

 

[FreedomLover]

What do you people think turned off people to Rudy so fast?

The media loved him, pushed him as hard as they could and they gave him plenty of time. All the reports I saw were good to him.

But then it all went away, and fast. And in my opinion it seemed to happen about a week before Florida.

Can we use the same method to turn people off of Mccain?

People weren't really 'with' him in the first place. Giuliani waited til Florida and ceded the beginning of the primary season to his opponents. His soft supporters in the early states went to Romney and McCain, and being that the main reason people were behind him in the first place was his supposed ability to win against hillary, they backed off once they saw how weak he was in relation to all of his opponents on the GOP side.

With McCain, although he was dubbed by the media as a lost cause, his supporters never really left. McCain was the "establishment" choice from the beginning of the campaign to the end...it never changed desipite his low poll numbers during the summer. After the failure of Huckabee and Romney to end him 1 on 1, and his frequently high poll numbers against the democrats that were pretty consistent through the end of 2007, Most republicans decided to go along for the ride (not all of course).

 

[Jeremy]

Easy: he started losing... BADLY

 

[Kacela]

The rise and fall of Ghouliani's campaign is directly related to the media coverage given to him. When the powers that be saw that Ghouliani was unelectable, they started to hype Huckleberry. It's as simple as that - the media is choosing the next POTUS.

 

[kigol]

i've heard rumors that Rudy will be McCain's VP.

 

[ambiguousscion]

You can really look for a GOP loss at that point...

 

[NoPants]

Rudy never had any true "support" -- it was really nothing more than very shallow "name recognition" that was being polled.

Rudy was never actually in the race.

I agree, I think he was mostly just getting name recognition, heck McCain gets over 50% of his votes from people who oppose the war. Do you really think most people know anything about the candidate's actual positions? Survey says (or exit polls): NO, They Don't.