“Elected officials are very ego driven,” she said. “It’s usually about them, of course, it’s how they get up every day and face the negative stuff as well as the positive, but it is very hard to make that transition and most of them really just want to stay relevant in the conversation.”
Translation:
Giuliani was so giddy about being in the spotlight again that he shared every secret he’d learned, hoping it would make him sound intriguing and in the know.
Sometimes you’re the engine, and sometimes you’re just the dipstick.
Been, what – five minutes?
Does she mean “jarring” as in “disconcerting” or “jarring” as in “I’m going to can 32 quarts of garlic bread-and-butter pickles to put away in the pantry for winter.”? After all, she is a Republican strategist.
Preserving food might indeed be strategic considering the Iran blowhards so close to PP.
a New York-based Republican strategist, told CNN that Giuliani has behaved like “a different person than what we all knew 20, 25 years ago”
I think I read an article, maybe in Huffpost abut Rudy’s history and I think he’s always been a loose cannon that only really got popular briefly due to being mayor of NYC during 9/11. Other than that he never really done anything that great.
Or, alternatively: “Giuliani was very good at hiding his true self 20, 25 years ago.”