Giuliani's team tapped for key RNC job
By Steve Benen Monday Jun 02, 2008 1:40pm
At the risk of sounding rude, I found this report from Marc Ambinder rather amusing.
The Republican National Committee has hired many of its Victory 2008 directors. These are the folks who will be in charge of spending the many of millions of dollars that the party doles out for GOTV efforts. Many of them are young — very young — are veterans of the Giuliani presidential campaign, and before that, veterans of the 2006 RNC field operation run by Mike DuHaime, formerly the Giuliani campaign manager.
Yes, right, Giuliani. I remember him.
He’s the one who spent tens of millions of dollars to compete in eight Republicans presidential contests earlier this year, losing all of them by wide margins, and who quit the race without so much as a single delegate.
He’s the one who only managed to break double digits in only one primary, and who lost by 21 points in his most competitive contest.
It’s his team that has been hired by the RNC for its get-out-the-vote efforts.
Thank goodness.
UPDATE: (Nicole) It appears that the RNC is pretty happy with the number of "friends" it has on Facebook. Their thinking apparently is that it bodes well for the November election, as they for the first time have more than the DNC. I've heard rumors they're shopping that story to some friendly reporters. If you'd like to make them look ridiculous, you can join the Democratic Party's Facebook group here.
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9/11 9/11 9/11 I remember
I guess they are looking for someone to fulfill the 'corrupt, incompetent' parts of the convention.
It looks to me like the RNC has 2,636 friends on facebook, compared to the DNC's 11,201 friends. Perhaps I'm missing something here?
"Victory 2008" hahahhahahahhahahhahahha that's a freaking good one.
Mr Benen wrote:
He’s the one who spent tens of millions of dollars to compete in eight Republicans presidential contests earlier this year, losing all of them by wide margins, and who quit the race without so much as a single delegate.
He’s the one who only managed to break double digits in only one primary, and who lost by 21 points in his most competitive contest.
It’s his team that has been hired by the RNC for its get-out-the-vote efforts.
Makes sense to me. It's the Republican way - screw the pooch and get promoted because you have the correct ideology.
Albatross @ 2:
Looking for those parts? Everything related to the GOP is already festering with corruption and incompetence.
WorldAsUnwill @ 6:
Yeah, but it has to be coordinated. Otherwise they'll buy out the same senators twice, or kick back funds from the same pork barrel funds multiple times. This stuff needs someone who will identify those duplicate cash streams, and route the excess to his campaign finance organization in order that he can spend the money on hookers. Rudy's your man for this.
You'd think the repugs would do something different. Giuliani? Are they hunker down in Florida until Nov ?
Bob @ 3:
Yup, I saw that too. Someone's wrong...
Sign him up!!!!!!!! I wonder if Bernie Kerik is available ?
It just keeps getting better with each passing day.
Excellent!
What? Guiliani? O.o
OK, funny joke guys, now please tell me this is reality, not some alternate timeline where Rudy was actually successful in the primaries. This...is...a joke right? Right?
Bob @ 3:
I think it means they're ecstatic over the news that there are actually 2,636 repuglimorons who know how to use a PC.
"If you’d like to make them look ridiculous, you can join the Democratic Party’s Facebook group here."
Actually if you wanted to make the RNC look REALLY ridiculous, we could all join the RNC's facebook group and leave them baffled when the dems take un-filerbusterable control of the house and senate, as well as the presidency.
WTF?! What color is the sky in election-world, where the only qualification to run a national campaign is just having been around for a previous one? Even if you got hosed so badly your own mother doesn't recognize you?
And it's not just the GOP that does this. Why the hell does Bob Shrum still have a job either?
Next logical step....mccain chooses spiro agnew as his running mate.
Don't be too hard on Giuliani's team. Whatever they did, they still had Rudy Giuliani as the giant stinking turd in the middle of their efforts.
He could have had Barack Obama giving speeches for him, Hillary Clinton lining up big-money donors, John McCain giving him honorary medals and Steven Spielberg directing his commercials and he still wouldn't have broken 10%. Because he still would have been Rudy Giuliani.
Best news of the day. Go for it kids! Don't let anybody tell you you didn't do a great job with the Guiliani campaign!
Albatross @ 7:
Oh, if you want coordinated incompetence and corruption, then Giuliani is the best the GOP can get. You can say a lot of things about Giuliani, but I'll be damned if he isn't the most effective channeler of profound incompetence and scathing corruption in the world.
Stay away from facebook - mark zuckerberg is a (I believe) rightwing extremist who has launched a website to counter MoveOn.
Done.
Giuliani’s team tapped for key RNC job
Julianna will jump out of the party's cake in wig, makeup, thong and fishnets?
He's going to have to shop for new pumps and matching lipsticks. So this is a good opportunity for him.
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"the change you deserve"
catchy, eh?
Hysterical!!!!! Though, I can see why . . . it will bring his 7 supporters into the fold.
joe cantwell @ 25:
"The dollars ...we keep"
Breaking: AP Officially Calls The Race For Obama
By: Cliff Schecter Tuesday June 3, 2008 11:05 am [digg]
Wow, it only took five months! Here is how the AP came to their conclusion:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, becoming the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House.
Campaigning on an insistent call for change, Obama outlasted former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in a historic race that sparked record turnout in primary after primary, yet exposed deep racial divisions within the party.
The AP tally was based on public commitments from delegates as well as more than a dozen private commitments. It also included a minimum number of delegates Obama was guaranteed even if he lost the final two primaries in South Dakota and Montana later in the day.
Now John McCain can get to the business of convincing Latino voters to support him as he abandons his immigration reform bill, women as he pushes the next Alito for the Supreme Court, working families as he votes against SCHIP and tries to eliminate the minimum wage and veterans as he comes up with ever more creative reasons to reject the GI Bill.
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(drbonzo puts on quavering old-man voice)
I remember my freshman year in college, when I somehow managed to get into the “advanced” physics section that was separate from the “regular” class albeit for just the first semester.
One of our very favoritest classmates was a weasley little man (reminiscent of “Clever” Hans von Spakovsky, come to think of it) who was extra full-of-himself and quite impressed with having been labeled “advanced.”
In the last class of the Fall semester, Andrew (for that was his name) said, in his best, whiniest Clever Hans voice, “Oh, that’s right. Next semester we’ll be in class with them.”
And the professor, bless his heart, looked Andrew in the eye and said, “But Andrew, you are ‘them’.”
All the twittering going on today, here and elsewhere in the ’sphere, reminds me of poor Andrew. Whether you’re an Obama-ite who wishes the Clintonistas would just ‘get over it,’ or an Obamamaniac dreading the likely influx of Clinton staffers into the GE campaign (”Icky! Icky!”), or a disappointed Clinton supporter who knows in your heart that the Wrong Candidate Won, or whatever …
The fact is, we all here are ‘them’ — bright, passionate people who know that any one of the Democrats who started out this primary would be better than McCain’s promise to continue the Bushist train-wreck for another four years. It’s not about you, it’s not about me, it’s not about Barack or Hill or any one person. It’s about taking back our country from the thugs who’ve hijacked it over the past eight years.
So c’mon, folks — let’s get lined up to kick some serious ass in the General. Our country needs us.
http://cliffschecter.firedoglake.com/2008/06/03/breaking-ap-officially-c...
Trittydi @ 24:
ysbaddaden @ 23:
I don't like language like that, as it insults drag queens and implies a wee bit of distaste for transvestites.
Guiliani's an asshole, but let's not say something that would be insulting to drag queens and transvestites in general. Let's leave that to the GOP.
Scy @ 26:
Wasn't mental giant David Frum his super special Foreign Affairs Advisor?
Hey David: Canada still hates you.... HAAAA-haa !!
Rick Massimo @ 18:
Who's idea was it - Rudy's or his team's - to dress Rudy up in a bright red tight-fitting sweatervest and have him make jokes about fruitcakes in a campaign commercial?
If it was Rudy himself who insisted he looked good in that sweater and wrote his own lame jokes, I'll concede your point.
If it was his advisors who put him up to that, however, each should be taken out back and put down as quickly as possible, for their own good, as they're obviously in a lot of mental pain. :p
Over at fanatic Hillary supporter SusanunPc (she is about as fanatical as they come, few other opinions at this site) at No Quarter USA.
They claim a media "bomb" will be dropped on Obama tomorrow.
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/06/03/a-devastating-bombshell-on-obama...
assholes on parade. should be fun. I wonder if they can steal this one also?
The Re-PIG-lics know Giulia can bring his own special aura to their convention.*
Is the facebook addition a joke?
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Republican-National-Committee/5615479996
2,352 Supporters
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Anonymous/8452174070
2,839 Supporters
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hugo-Chavez/10549902634
3,662 Supporters
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Conservatives/8807334278
4,599 Supporters (Uh oh, looks like someone didn't get the memo about which Facebook group to join!)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ralph-Nader-for-President-2008/8599397877
4,990 Supporters
http://www.facebook.com/johnmccain
134,598 Supporters
http://www.facebook.com/hillaryclinton
159,354 SUpporters
http://www.facebook.com/barackobama
876,647 Supporters
Maybe they mean the Convention...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/2008-Republican-National-Convention/765185...
1,371 Supporters
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Karl-Heinrich-Marx/26921150840
1,467 Supporters
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Democratic-National-Convention/5550624217
516 Supporters
I couldn't find the actual DNC facebook entry?
General_Rennenkampf @ 29:
He has made himself a target for these remarks. His fondness for cross-dressing is documented. Commenting on the fact that Giulia has this "habit" doesn't make me a bigot or a homophobe. It has comic value because he values something the re-PIG-lics are repulsed by and actively promulgate hatred for.
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earl @ 30:
David "axis of evil" Frum. This guy is a member of the psychopaths club.
Scy @ 26:
funny, and oh so accurate
Trittydi @ 35:
Comic value, yes, and I fully understand that he's a target for it. It still isn't something I like, but I can understand why people do it.
Hussein-iani @ 31:
I don't have the first-hand facts, but that commercial had "The boss wants it" written all over it. The seat-squirming awfulness of the final result would have been vetoed by anyone.
Filthy Harry @ 15:
I agree.
Given that they are gauging their "popularity" by their number of friends on FaceBook. How rediculous is that ?
They can use what they want, the country has already decided that Republicans will be measured by the disasterous policies of George W. Bush.
Geez, and all I was expecting were questions about what pumps he'd be wearing,
They'll be swim fins.
Here's an insult to drag queens:
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/7/Z/barbara_bush_beautiful.jpg
ZOMG. This is too good to be true? I can't wait to hear reports of his stays at the 4 Seasons on the campaign dollar.
GOP 2008: Who needs enemies when you got Mr. 9/11.
At many points in this election, this story included, I can't help but wonder if the GOP is actually trying lose. Then I think about their dirty tricks and smear campaigns, and I realize that that slander, lies, and fear are simply all they know how to do even remotely well. ...and even that is falling away from them!
ysbaddaden @ 42:
Um, can I have a fork please? My eyes are begging for one.
Is Facebook a dating site? People could ask for for hott man-on-party bareback hookups and the like. "Dear RNC, how are you with facials?"
General_Rennenkampf @ 38:
If I wasn't comfortable with my own lack of prejudice I probably would not. But it's not a bad thing to remind us of the thin line we walk in a case like this and that others may perceive our comments in a different light. And that's worth caring about.
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A fitting figure to preside over a party that is dead meat. The only way the Republicans are going to get in office is to change party affiliation and pretend that they are either Democrats or Independents. Look to see their major work in the next few decades as being one of further undermining the integrity of other parties, most notably the Democratic party, where they've already made significant gains.
Everyone I know wants to be friends with a national political party committee, instead of (you know) a candidate. What are the Barack Obama vs. John McCain friend numbers?
Doesn't "the change you deserve" sound really...negative? All I hear when I see that is this conversation:
Son: "Hey dad, we deserve some change!"
Dad: "You'll get the change you deserve and not a whit more! Now wash my car, and don't make me give you a whuppin'!"
Not...exactly...like that, but you get the point.
I think they see the writing on the wall and realize this is the last chance for years to line their pockets again. They are going to use the McCain campaign as their personal piggy bank cause they better get it while they can.
Kathleen @ 36:
... formerly known as PNAC.
The RNC is hiring Rudy people ehh.... hehehehh riiiighhtttt...
Keep digging that hole motherfuckers.... keep on a diggin...
Need another shovel, try bringing in some of those Mitt big brains next.... JD
Report: "Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates" Just thought you'd be interested.
Rudy's work is cut out for him. I'm sure he'll find as many racist angles to play as he can. and his association with terrorist organizations will be completely ignored by the press, since he is, after all, a republican.
This guy looks familiar, but I just can't recall the name. Instead, I keep thinking of three numbers. Strange. Oh well?
earl @ 27:
Wow! That is s-o-o-o-o funny because it's true. Rigft Homer?
ralph @ 33:
I don't think so. I think that the big fucks in the repukelican party saw the big show coming to an end and decided to let McCrazy have a crack at the POTUS job that they knew he can't win and are getting their share of knee-slappers out of John McLame's campaign that gets more fucked up, on a daily!I can see it in Crash's eyes. I mean he looks like the top of his head is gonna explode, any time now. McBush is indeed that CRAZY!
forever @ 9:
The Dems are up to 13,205 now.
I can't find any GOP/Republican/RNC/KKK facebook with more than 3000.
Wait, what? Republicans? FaceBook? I thought FaceBook clamped down on the sexual predators and deviants a while back?
Maybe not so much? Tap. Tap. Tap.
I just hope they do the same bang up job for the rnc that they did for rudy! LOL
hahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha.
Paula @ 57:
Dems have 16,355 now and counting. Good work, fellow C&L fans!
don't worry rudy...we haven't forgotten about you, your underhanded attempted to steal elections and your crooked cronies....ALL OF THEM!
Please, please, please dear plastic jeebus, let this be true. If the RNC is using the same dumb asses from 2006 and the complete failures from Rudy's campaign, there isn't a fucking chance in hell they will be able to steal this election.
Here's another good idea. Have chimpy and the dark prince of death fly around the country and support Johny McShitforbrains. That's exactly the kind of kiss of death I would love to see all summer long.
We are just months away from the largest voter turnout in the history of this contry, and there is only one reason for that, we all want our fucking country back. Better start your move to Argentina Dick. The war crimes trials begin in Feb 09.
Has there ever been a worse candidate? This clown flamed-out so quickly, it was like a meteor.
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