Rudy Hits 9/11 Panic Button With New Ad About Attacks
Rudy, who's basing his entire strategy at this point on a victory in Florida, is going up on the air in the state with this new ad that mentions 9/11 in the first sentence. In an obvious appeal to the state's aging voters, Rudy connects 9/11 to the Greatest Generation, which he describes as "brave" and "persistent" enough to win World War II. Clearly, we're meant to see Rudy as an equally brave and persistent hero in a new World War -- the one against Islamofacism.
"When you try to take something away from us, like freedom," Rudy proclaims, "the Americans are going to be one in resisting it. So the Islamic terrorists would make a terrible mistake if they confuse our democracy for weakness." Sheer desperation.
Comments (31)
Michael A wrote on December 27, 2007 9:06 AM:Sounds almost like a clinton II ad. When are they going to raise the threat level to orange?
DemAC wrote on December 27, 2007 9:06 AM:Sheer desperation.Indeed. He’s going down and he knows it. Mike C wrote on December 27, 2007 9:14 AM:
As Joe Biden once said - Rudy is a noun, a verb and 9/11. As tales of his shagging on the public dime became known, his standing in teh Ruplican primary went down hill. If he chooses to run on 9/11 again questions about the radios that diidn't work, his placement of the Command Center in a known terrorist attack site will raise questions about his judgement and honesty.
Mike from Maine wrote on December 27, 2007 9:28 AM:"Greatest Generation?" That's the one which assisted in the murder of over 50 million people. Yea; war is always what we measure greatness by.
mike from maine wrote
"Greatest Generation?" That's the one which assisted in the murder of over 50 million people. Yea; war is always what we measure greatness by."
You need to go back and read about why we got into WWII you moron. To say we "murdered 50 million people shows your total lack of understanding of where the world was at. Maybe you are suggesting that we should not have gone to war after Pearl Harbor? Unbelievable...sigh...
"...a noun, a verb, and nine eleven...."
warren terra wrote on December 27, 2007 10:13 AM:And the first thing Rudy would so if elected would be to continue the Bush administration's dismantling of the Constitutions, in the name of national security, of course.
Who's taking away our freedoms? Ahmadinejad? Osama bin Laden?
We're having our freedom eroded by our Supreme Court selected executive officials and their frightened enablers.
Rudy has eliminated the nouns, and verbs and limited his message to 9/11.
The Naudet brothers should send his campaign a cease-and-desist order to not use any of their footage of that awful day.
To call Il Douche a fascist scumbag is both to be redundant and to give him too much credit, in that fascism, while evil, at least has a certain internal logic.
But this is airing in Florida; after 2000, do you really trust those people not to screw anything up?
Jack wrote on December 27, 2007 10:39 AM:Rudy will drop out as soon as he knows he can't win. He will fake a relaps of his cancer the same way he bailed out in NY aganst Sen. Clinton.
unpoetaloco wrote on December 27, 2007 10:52 AM:How dare the Islamofascists try to take away Americans' freedom! That the job of Republicans, Neocons and Christofascists.
randron wrote on December 27, 2007 11:06 AM:George W. Bush thinks that our democracy is weakness. Why shouldn't the terrorists?
CranialRectalLoopback wrote on December 27, 2007 11:09 AM:All Chickenhawk, all the time. He's such a strong leader that when his generation needed him, he stood down, while John Kerry stood up.
A noun, a verb, and lots of 9/11 pictures.
Is it just me, or do others notice that nervous laugh in all of his ads?
t0m_sawyer wrote on December 27, 2007 12:17 PM:It is not the islamic terrosist who I fear will take away our freedom it is candidates like rudy following in the footsteps of bush.
They are the real threats to our freedom.
I tried, without success, to post this exact comment on rudy's youtube site for this ad. So there you see how rudy and his peeps feel about freedom of speech for example.
Is it just me, or do others notice that nervous laugh in all of his ads?
That and the omitted portion from the quote: "if you try to take something away from us, like freedom, my goodness the Americans are going to be one in resisting it." (Aside from the wrongness of this quote: the terrorists were trying to kill people, not take away freedoms; Bush is doing that well enough on his own, and only half the country is resisting.)
He's kind of talking in that Don Rumsfeld doddering-old-fool style. Personally, if I were old, I'd be offended that a candidate thought sounding like an idiot would be an effective pander to me.
freddy wrote on December 27, 2007 12:55 PM:Rudy: Dear lord, thank you again for 911 - you have come through when my political career was at it's lowest. And now with today's news in Pakistan...
Il Douchebag wrote on December 27, 2007 1:28 PM:"unpoetaloco wrote on December 27, 2007 10:52 AM:
How dare the Islamofascists try to take away Americans' freedom! That the job of Republicans, Neocons and Christofascists."
I thought the Repugs supported outsourcing. The Talibangelicals better watch their back.
Has anybody tried to leave a comment on the youtube ad? I tried and it never showed up. Have they cowardly disabled the comments section? Smells of Rudy's tactic of stiffling dissent.
Same thing happened to me with Mrs. Bill's youtube ad yesterday. She's not exactly a champion of free speach either. There's only a few shill comments on there.
They're all scared of what the real people really think of them.
Carl Nyberg wrote on December 27, 2007 2:04 PM:I'm not a Republican voter or a member of the "Greatest Generation" (they were the ones that designed and implemented the Vietnam War, right?) so I'm not the target audience.
The commercial seems like pandering interwoven with fear-mongering to me, but we'll see how it plays with voters.
Normally, Giuliani's strategy of waiting until Florida would be nuts. But if there is widespread dissatisfaction with the other candidates it might have a small chance of working.
I think Giuliani has to come in at least third in NH. If he's behind Romney, McCain and the Huckster, it's hard to argue he's a viable candidate.
If the former governor of Arkansas beats the former mayor of NYC in the Granite State, why should voters in Florida (or anywhere else) waste their mental energy on Giuliani?
owenz wrote on December 27, 2007 2:12 PM:Rudy is toast. For Democrats, McCain may be the more dangerous candidate in the general, however. The media still loves him, that's for sure. And he's disagreed with Bush just enough to avoid being completely tarred with the Administration's follies.
The silver lining of a McCain win is that, for all his double-speak, concessions and cave-ins to the Bushies, he at least pays lip service to the rule of law, avoiding signing statements, preventing torture, etc. McCain might be batshit crazy on foreign policy, but I don't think he shares Rudy's delight for shredding civil liberties and authoratarianism. Faint praise, I know. But Rudy terrifies me in this regard, while McCain merely worries me.
Unfortunately, the fact that McCain is a less objectionable candidate than Rudy makes him more electable in the general - and therefore more dangerous to Democrats. Put it this way: if Rudy ever managed to the primary, I would bet the house on him melting down at some point in the general, once the pressure got to him. McCain is much better campaigner...and will present a much bigger challenge for Dems.
sabatia wrote on December 27, 2007 2:19 PM:Though I would not vote for Rudy in any circumstance whatsoever, compared to Mitt Romney, Rudy comes across in this ad as both intelligent and sincere. Though I love Shaggate, Bernie, Father Placa very much, and consider myself somewhere between a liberal and a leftie, Rudy seems to have at least a touch of humanity and courage. Nonetheless, Rudy is down, going down further, and is essentially dead. Mitt, who has not a hint of humanity or courage, will be the nominee, and I think he will be tough in the general. Oy!
Xavier wrote on December 27, 2007 2:30 PM:mike w,
I'm not ready to say ww2 was a war that shouldn't have been fought, but there are certainly reasons to believe Roosevelt was looking for an 'in' and antagonizing the Japanese. You could also make the argument that the fire and nuclear bombings in Japan were needless, cruel, and criminal.
'Greatest Generation'? I think not.
Chris wrote on December 27, 2007 2:34 PM:The Republicans running McCain for President is exactly like the Dems running Lieberman for President. Half the Republican Party will stay home on election day in protest. It's a 100% guarantee that the Dem will win in 2008 if they nominate McCain.
Chris wrote on December 27, 2007 2:37 PM:My vote for "Greatest Generation" were the ones who fought in WWI and were the political and military leaders in WWII and the after-math.
editor wrote on December 27, 2007 3:04 PM:The terrorist have no means of dismantling our freedoms.
Only the Bush administration, and a successive Giuliani administration, can take away our freedoms.
The terrorists are a bunch of misguided hacks. There have always been people who hated America, and always will be.
But when the government dismantles our freedoms, regardless of the 'good reason', we need to be sure we're placing the blame where it belongs: on those in government.
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editor wrote on December 27, 2007 3:04 PM:
The terrorist have no means of dismantling our freedoms.
Only the Bush administration, and a successive Giuliani administration, can take away our freedoms.
The terrorists are a bunch of misguided hacks. There have always been people who hated America, and always will be.
But when the government dismantles our freedoms, regardless of the 'good reason', we need to be sure we're placing the blame where it belongs: on those in government.
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Well said.
I entered the video into stumbleupon database with a note about comments being blocked -- also checked a few more of his videos -- no comments there either -- the little shit [just like bush] is scared to hear from the ppl.
-- so if your a stumbler -- visit, rate and comment -- Savage
Islamo-fascists can't take away our liberties, we Americans have already allowed the government to shred the US Constitution in the name of false security.
Jefferson is right a revolution every so often can be a good thing.
Paul W. Oxby wrote on December 27, 2007 8:15 PM:Did Giuliani say that he learned about World War II from Tom Brokaw? Giuliani was born in 1944. Did he grow up in a bubble? America doesn't need another president with no knowledge of history.
Douglas Rankin wrote on December 28, 2007 5:47 PM:Just the lack of shame in making such a commercial should disqualify him in the mind of almost any voter (except maybe the ones who thought Red Dawn was a documentary). If Rudy admitted he believes in a dictatorial approach to things, I'd respect him for showing his true colors. But that he continues to live off the death and misfortune of thousands in his red, white and blue suit really makes him one of the most slug-like politicians to ever slither for office. I hope we act as one and reject him. He's really a low-life.
chilidog wrote on December 29, 2007 2:26 AM:In the immortal words of one of the Greatest Generations greatest, 'You show me a hero, and I'll prove he's a bum.' Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington USMC Awarded the CMoH
Seems Guiliani is the QED of Boyington's argument.
