Discussion: Giuliani Brings Up 2008 Primary Loss To McCain In Memorial Tweet

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More like overwhelmingly and bigly than fairly and soundly.

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I give Rudy credit for a decent and heartfelt tribute.

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He should have left out the second sentence. It actually sounds pretty good when you do that. Don’t these people show their postings to anybody else? My spouse and I edit each others’ emails when it is something important and it almost always improves the message.

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I may be, like @mattinpa a bit, well, oversensitive to things coming out of the Spankee and Ghouliani Show, but here were the two things that caused my reaction (take them as you will). Ghouliani had to put himself in there (so just a shade away from Spankee) by mentioning he’d run a presidential (primary) campaign, which, I felt, subtly tried to imply he was “in the same class” as McCain. Which he is not, and may never have been, and, of course, especially now is lightyear’s away. Yes, he did mention that he had lost to McCain, but he just had to make it sound like it was a battle of equals. YMMV.

But you are right that this was surprisingly good compared to recent communications coming from Rudy.

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Thanks for elaborating but … did I miss the second thing? Inserting himself is a different thing from making 2008 sound like a battle of equals? That’s what you meant by “two,” right?

As for my reaction, it could be that my expectations are low, but you’re apparently not the only one who thinks Giuliani “should have left out the second sentence,” and I can sort of understand this feeling although I don’t share it. Thanks again.

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