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McRudy?!?!?!?!
Michelle Malkin — McRudy?!?!?!?! By Michelle Malkin•August 19, 2008 11:34 AM mcrudy.jpg Hey, how do you feel about two open-borders cross-dressers on the GOP ticket? Shudder. Juan Hernandez approves! *** Flashback: Meet the GOP immigration drag queens. Flashback: The McRudy alliance. Posted in: John McCain , Rudy Giuliani Send to a Friend Printer Friendly comments (9) [image] trackbacks (1) See what others have said Note from Michelle: This section is for comments from michellemalkin.com's community of registered ...

Was the pro-choice trial balloon about Rudy?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Kathryn Jean Lopez writes today at The Corner about one interpretation of the recent John McCain trial balloon that hadn’t yet arisen in mainstream analysis.  What if McCain might be thinking of Rudy Giuliani as a running mate, rather than Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman?  She even notes that a recent staff move could signal this: The McCain campaign has already hired a Giuliani staffer as the unnamed veep’s communications director… Rudy would make more sense than either Ridge or Lieberman.  Ridge doesn’t exactly have a national following, and Lieberman is a typical liberal ...

#2
Alarming News — #2 As everyone knows, I love me some Rudy Giuliani. But as McCain's VP ? I don't think so. McCain has to pick someone more conservative than he is, not less, and though Rudy would bring a rockstar quality to the ticket (the fact that he barely participated in the primary process insured his star power remained intact), he would not put NY in play (c'mon, now) and he would further piss off the already pretty pissed off social conservatives. I ...

Pick The Veep: McCain/Giuliani?
The Great Plains Observer — This time of the election cycle is always fun. Speculating on who will be chosen as a candidate’s VP seems to be one step above picking Superbowl winners in August. Someone over at the National Review is chiming in on the latest popular prediction from emailer’s to their site. So many e-mailers this morning are predicting that the McCain trial balloon is really about Giuliani. I’m not there, but here’s one: I don’t think it’s being floated for Liebermann or Ridge. I think he’s considering Giuliani. - Might put NY in enough play to make Obama spend a lot of money there. - ...

Tippecanoe and Lieberman Too
Ross Douthat — ... I would add, though, that Brownstein's analysis offers a reasonable case for a pro-lifer to actually feel at least slightly better about a McCain-Lieberman ticket than about, say, a McCain-Ridge (or McCain-Rudy!) pairing. Lieberman's record on domestic issues and partisan affiliation more or less guarantee that he would only succeed McCain if McCain died in office, and the examples of Tyler and Johnson, as well as common sense, suggest that in that eventuality he wouldn't be embraced as the GOP's standard bearer for 2012. As veep, his most likely role would be as a Cheney-style ...

Shots from the Show 8/19
Tammy Bruce — **This post will be updated throughout the show** American Thinker: Sec. Rice Brokers Another Disaster NRO The Corner: It's Rudy Oh yeah, this'll make the Russians shake in their jackboots. Or maybe not. CNS: With Russian Attack on Georgia, Polish Support for Missile Defense Almost Doubles

Clown Prince
Whiskey Fire — ... K-Lo considers crushing on Rudy! as McCain's vice-p pick. Exciting! But who knows! I hereby predict that McCain will finally team up with an annoying, authoritarian, easily confused, warmongering clown who nobody likes. I feel pretty confident about this.  ...

Daily Blog Buzz: Veep Talk
Weekly Standard Blog — ... is sure to distract the media from obsessing over his age and take some of the afterglow away from Obama's historic nomination speech." Who will it be? While Marc Ambinder provides hints for determining a veep, at Contentions, Jennifer Rubin says we can be sure that it will be "someone McCain trusts deeply and who would be a credible commander-in-chief." The bloggers at The Corner note some of the many possibilities: Mitt Romney? Rob Portman? Rudy Giuliani? A pro-choice politician? We'll find out next week--and ...

Obama/McCain Veepstakes, continued
Sister Toldjah — ... In a follow-up post, K-Lo points out that readers are pointing to the possibility of Rudy being McCain’s surprise VP pick. ...

Please, Please, Please
Lawyers, Guns and Money — If only this were right. Ru9dy! Giul11ani would be an even better choice than Mittens! I especially like this logic: - Might put NY in enough play to make Obama spend a lot of money there. Oh, yes, absolutely, just like a gay marriage decision that would be unpopular in Alabama will definitely put California in play. I sincerely advise the GOP to not only pick Rudy! but to pour tons of money into New York. After all, this was Karl Rove's idea in 2000, and he's a genius!

DAY'S END ROUNDUP
News — ... writes that this will surely put Gore in focus for the veepstakes, but points out Gore has stuck firmly to not wanting to be the second name on the ticket again. And many conservatives are starting to think the McCain camp is leaning toward Giuliani, writes The Corner's Kathryn Jean Lopez . The conservative blogger points out Giuliani staffers are already installed on the undeclared veep's communications team. ...

Midday open thread
Daily Kos — ... Republican convention. I can't wait to see what drinking games are devised for that one. And no, "9/11" shouldn't be one of the drink markers. We don't want a rash of alcohol poisoning that night. Then again, maybe he's McCain's veep nominee, which would be totally awesome. ...