Giuliani's Loss, Subsequent Dropout Signals End of Right-Wing Scare Tactic Politics
"9/11 Changed Everything" Talk Could Cease for Good as Rudy Drops Bid for Republican Nomination
Do not cry for Rudy. Rudy was just doing what he could with what he had at his disposal. He was the Mayor of New York City on September 11th, 2001, when our country was so brutally attacked. He turned that tragedy into a rallying cry for his supporters, who would eventually organize a "Donate $9.11 to Rudy" campaign, completely exploiting the most dramatic and horrible attack ever carried out on American soil.
Finally, seven years after that fateful day, Americans came out in droves to send a message to Rudy. No longer will we give in to the politics of fear. No longer will we let you scare us into votes, scare us into policy changes that take away our rights, scare us into believing that you are the only answer to radical Muslim extremists who want to destroy our country.
No more. No more lies, no more fear.
So long, Rudy. Your "vote for me or else" campaign style has been rejected, Americans roundly choosing "or else" - the uncertain - over the idea that you could so easily manipulate this country's citizens with despicable political games and the politics of fear. I'm happy to see you go, and you won't be missed.
It only took seven years for us to come to our senses. Seven years to learn that a country as great as America should lead the world by example, not through military campaigns. Seven years to realize that the way into the "hearts and minds" of those in the Middle East is not by dropping bombs on everything in sight through an illegal war.
Seven years to reject this so-called "hero" of 9/11.
Not one minute too soon.
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Post a CommentI saw an interview where they asked people on the street who the bigger HERO was Rudy 9/11 Giuliani or Sully the pilot who dropped teh plane in the Hudson river, not one person mentioned Rudy and one lady asked Rudy who?
Hear hear! And what voters did to Rudy they must in November do to John McCain. Because McCain's rhetoric doesn't sound very different from Rudy's. Despite polls that starkly contradict him, John McCain insists that "at the end of the day it's Islamic fundamentalism that the voters care most about, not the economy." McCain is continuing the politics of fear, using threats to scare up votes. McCain's cavalier attitude toward war is despicable, and he must be stopped.