"Rudy's Putting 'Almost Everything' in FL"

Rudy's Putting "Almost Everything" in FL
by Matthew E. Berger

>>>>CORAL SPRINGS, FL -- Giuliani said his campaign was putting “almost everything” into Florida, amid news that a dozen of his senior staffers are going without paychecks in January.

Speaking at a media availability at a charter school, Giuliani said the staffers volunteered to go without a salary this month as an “effort to stretch dollars even further.”

“Some people volunteered to do it. We didn’t ask anyone to do it. Some people volunteered to do it because they wanted to stretch out the money,” he said.

Giuliani downplayed the suggestion that the campaign was having financial problems. But he made clear that most resources are headed for the Sunshine State, which goes to the polls on Jan. 29.

“We have some,” he said when asked if there would be money for Feb. 5 states. “But, frankly, Florida is real important to us, so we’re gonna put if not everything into Florida, almost everything.”>>>>

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/11/572344.aspx

Mixed feelings about this... Part of me would love to see a defeat in FL by McCain (or Huckabee) give a fatal blow to the Giuliani 9/11 campaign. However, I have become more convinced in recent weeks that a McCain or Huckabee candidacy would be stronger than a Giuliani, so I'm kind of hoping for Giuliani to hang in there and keep the path to the Repug nomination messy.

He's trailing McCain by eight points here... I really thought his FL and Super Tuesday strategy was stupid... Some folks suggested Hillary have a quasi Super Tuesday strategy and skip Iowa... Folks look more brightly upon someone who competes and loses than someone who doesn't compete at all...

We are going to be facing McCain...Maybe he'll splinter the right...Why they hate him I don't know... Maybe it's because he doesn't want to shoot gays and undocumented workers; only Muslims...Rush fricken hates him and he preaches to jam packed stadiums...

McCain really seems to have gotten a pretty substantial bump from his New Hampshire victory. I think a number of R's don't like McCain simply because he dared to challenge the anointed one back in 2000. Also, because he's not quite as big of a xenophobe as the rest of the R's, and has supported measures like campaign finance reform and has opposed a tax cut or two. I personally had a fair amount of respect for him, until he showed himself to be such a warmonger re: Iraq and gave that nauseating on-stage bear hug to the dude who oversaw such a nasty campaign against him in the '00 South Carolina primaries.

an approximately 9/11 point lead in the state!!

:eyes:

o, how i wish those evil bushes and their fascist followers/right wing cristofascist/ and others would just leave our used to be beautiful claudepepper/dantefascel florida alone. long live janet reno and the true democrats who gave so much to the spirit of our true and beautiful florida.

those were the days my friend, we used to sing and dance ...

But their salaries have been reduced to $9.11

According to a poll out yesterday (the first there in a month) Giuliani is only 3% ahead of McCain in New York:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/ny/new_york_republican_primary-264.html

He is also starting to lose his lead in Florida - the latest poll there has McCain 8% ahead:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/fl/florida_republican_primary-260.html

I think Rudy is out of it!

:shrug: