{"id":8233,"date":"2011-01-07T19:25:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T00:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8233"},"modified":"2011-01-07T19:25:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T00:25:57","slug":"rudy-giuliani-preparing-to-tempt-fate-waste-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8233\/rudy-giuliani-preparing-to-tempt-fate-waste-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudy Giuliani Preparing to Tempt Fate, Waste Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teagan Goddard of <em>Political Wire<\/em> repeated a <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2011\/01\/07\/giuliani_gearing_up_for_another_run.html\" target=\"_blank\">rumor going around<\/a> about former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-NY) getting some of his political hands together for another run at the White House.\u00a0 Presumably, those are the same people that talked their boss into a suicidal primary strategy: skip Iowa, abandon New Hampshire, and bypass South Carolina for an all-or-nothing shot in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, by the time the Florida primary rolled around, the GOP nomination was a two-horse race between John McCain (R-AZ) and Mitt Romney (R-MA).\u00a0 (Governor Charlie Crist\u2019s late support of McCain sealed the deal for the Maverick\u2019s Sunshine State win.)\u00a0 In the process, Giuliani spent a ton of money effectively not contesting the nomination until it was too late.<\/p>\n<p>And now he wants to do it all again.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure his \u201cbrain trust\u201d won\u2019t mind dusting off the 2008 playbook while cashing 2012 checks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teagan Goddard of Political Wire repeated a rumor going around about former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-NY) getting some of his political hands together for another run at the White House.\u00a0 Presumably, those are the same people that talked their boss into a suicidal primary strategy: skip Iowa, abandon New Hampshire, and bypass South Carolina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,353,354,721,160,2244,2243],"class_list":["post-8233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-charlie-crist","tag-florida","tag-john-mccain","tag-mitt-romney","tag-presidential-primary","tag-rudy-giuliani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8237,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233\/revisions\/8237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}