Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Wonder If He’ll Refund Any of That Cash

Again, I just can’t help myself and I wade forth into Presidential Primary Politics.

According to published reports, Rudy Giuliani spent about $30 million dollars in his abortive presidential run after raising $47 million.

After about six years of campaigning for the 2008 nomination, a few thousand speeches about 9/11 and how 9/11 is this and 9/11 is that and that all things flow freely from the 9/11 treasure trove of dogma, ignoring Iowa and New Hampshire (to his political peril, duh) and spending more time in Florida than a 1980s-era coke dealer; poor Rudy-G got ONE delegate. (Technically, he’s gotten two, but that second is an undeclared mucky-muck, so let’s not count that one, it’s more fun that way). Plus, that one delegate he won is in Nevada of all places. Whatever.

$30 ho-jillion clams for ONE scrawny delegate.

Ouch. Not a great Return on Investment there, Rudy.

My thought: Rudy’s going to use that one delegate to break a dead-heat tie between McCain and Romney and become the “king-maker” at the brokered convention. “Mitt, John, I release my lone delegate to whichever of you makes me a Supreme Court nominee if elected. And whichever of you can get me a pony. With sparkles. Fetch me a sparkle pony! Now!”

And he’ll use that clout to muscle his way into a prime time speech a the Republican convention where he will talk about how he saved the planet on 9/11 and made the world safe for ponies everywhere.

I’m just guessing, though.

Except about the sparkle pony, Rudy loves him some glitter-y equine.

1. Who doesn’t want a sparkle pony?  If I were in his position, I would be like, “Whoever gets me a pony with tinsel for hair gets this remaining $17 mil.  Even you, Hill or Barack.  Sparkle pony?”

   Posted by Sandy  on  01/30/08  at  05:24 PM

2. Sparkle pony.  Snicker.

   There was a great editorial in the NYTimes last week, wherein the author said something like, “It’s such a bummer that Rudy is dropping out already.  We New Yorkers had so much more to share about what a corrupt idiot loser he is.” It rocked.

   Posted by Novembrance  on  02/01/08  at  01:52 PM

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