Rudy Channels Alice Cooper and Tom Petty: He's a Nightmare Who Won't Back Down
Rudy Giuliani, leading candidate for the GOP presidential bid (assuming the U.S. still exists by next summer's convention), is taking it to those hate-America-firsters at MoveOn.org:
Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign is up with a radio ad in Iowa claming he is liberals' "worst nightmare" - an effort to get early voters to think ahead to November when they caucus in January.
The spot, called "Nightmare," shows that last week's MoveOn.org ad bashing Army Gen. David Petraeus is the gift that keeps on giving for Republicans.
"MoveOn.org is the most powerful left-wing group in the country," the ad, which is running statewide, intones. "They spent millions electing anti-war liberals. And publicly brag how the Democratic Party is theirs - bought and paid for. Why is MoveOn attacking Rudy Giuliani? Because he's their worst nightmare."
"They know Rudy is a Republican who can beat the Democrats," continues the narrator, in the style of a disaster movie voice-over. "And they know, no matter what they say - Rudy will never, ever back down."
Alice Cooper, rumored to be a Republican, bids welcome to his nightmare here. (Btw, is there any more of a educational-choice anthem than "School's Out"? I think not.)
Tom Petty, channeled before by other Republicans but not one hisself, on not backing down here. Question: If Rudy is ripping off Tom Petty, when will he enter his execrable "I'm a bad boy" phase?
Come see the softer side of Rudy here, in this hilarious ad from one of his runs for NYC mayor (and in which, as one commenter notes, Rudy inexplicably is playing catcher behind a T-ball tee).
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But is he a fast talking cheetah with a fist full of napalm?
excuse me, a heart full of napalm.
If "liberal" is synonymous with "civil libertarian," then claiming to be their "worst nightmare" may be the most honest political ad I've ever seen.
I think Rudy Giuliani should live like a refugee.
No, but by 2009 he'll be the world's forgotten boy.
just as long as you don't forget...
Rudy really needs to have one last dace with Mary Jane, or maybe take some Free Fallin lessons.
Hey, Rudy! Don't come around here no more.
But is he a fast talking cheetah with a fist full of napalm?
No, just one of the Stooges.
This post is nearly a half-hour old, and Dondero's not here yet? He must have paid today's hooker in advance.
You are all on my "Search & Destroy" list for getting that song stuck in my damn head.
1969...
1970...
wait, is there war across the USA?
And it's a street walking cheetah....
heart full of napalm is correct sir.
all night - til it blows you away!
Maybe they will have a change of heart...
Last dance with Rudy G.,
One more time to kill the free.
Jennifer wins!
hay! I'm pretty hep and cool with some smooth tune-age.
I'm down true dat. Diversifitation.
This post is nearly a half-hour old, and Dondero's not here yet? He must have paid today's hooker in advance.
Jennifer wins!
To paraphrase Quagmire, "hey, Donderrroooos need love too...they just gotta pay for it."
oh right!
There'll be nothing left alive but a pair of glassy eyes.
But don't blame me. I'm just a passenger.
Btw, is there any more of a educational-choice anthem than "School's Out"? I think not.
I'll just assume 'Another Brick In The Wall - part II' just slipped your mind. Even better for the British school setting.
It's amazing how the beltway press remains so stubbonly delusional over anything Iraq related.
To the Politico, ...last week's MoveOn.org ad bashing Army Gen. David Petraeus is the gift that keeps on giving for Republicans.
In the rest of the country, David Patraeus is considered roughly as credible as Tom Delay, 70% of the country still wants us to do Tha Cut-N-Run out of Mesopotamia, and the same number disagree with Guiliani and the Beltway press's position that invading Iraq was a good idea.
Maybe America's worst nightmare. Or is that a Rudy vs. Hillary general election contest?
I could actually see Ron Paul winning as a third party candidate in that scenario.
Rudy will be America's Worst NightMare....not just Liberals.
Rudy will be America's greatest President. He is a dream candidate for libertarians.
Thanks for the info on Alice. First Ted Nugent, than Gene Simmons of KISS, now Alice.
Follows a trend. USTL President Phil Blumel and friend of Brian Doherty was once a lead singer of a hardcore Punk Band in Florida. Now he's a Palm Beach, Florida Republican stock broker, with two kids, and a set of golf clubs.
Can Doherty be too far behind?