I perform daily searches for information on Rudy Giuliani. I think his candidacy is a joke and he's making a fool of himself to any person who has been paying attention. I know many believe he'd be a formidable general election candidate, and in some ways, that may be true. Yet in many others, I think he'd be a great person to run against, because he gives us so much ammunition.

As I'm at the gym on the treadmill, to get myself pumped up, I usually imagine myself being involved with a campaign for whatever Democrat is the nominee. I often think of what sort of ads I'd run against the Republican nominee. For Giuliani, his biggest strength is his perceived national security expertise. We know this is a sham, but it's still potent, so that's what we would have to attack.

Why not simply erect billboards in areas of the country where they are still allowed that show him shrugging his shoulders with a confused look on his face, with text that reads something like, "If only I knew what I was talking about..."? It's simple, would be constant and reach a lot of people, and would attack his biggest strength without mentioning any words that remind people of his alleged expertise. Would it really cost so much more than ads besides those on television? This sort of attack ad would work well on any Republican, but on Giuliani, it'd be particularly effective, I believe.

Up early on a Saturday, I decided to do a little search for news about my favorite joke of a candidate, Rudy Giuliani. Over at Talking Points Memo, I came across this:

Rudy Accuses Hillary And Obama Of Being "Anti-Troops"
In an interview with ABC News radio, Rudy Giuliani said that Hillary and Obama's votes against the no-withdrawal-timetables Iraq funding bill showed that they had "moved from being not just anti-war, but to being anti-troops." No response yet from either Dem.

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/ electioncentral/2007/may/25/happy_hour_r oundup

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story ?id=3214008&page=1

I wonder how he'd react to being show his 2004 "Today Show" remarks. On that show, he said that the missing weapons at the Al Qa Qaa site in Iraq went back to the actions of the soldiers there: "The actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there. Did they search carefully enough? Didn't they search carefully enough?" (A Google search shows these words quoted by several people.) To paraphrase Jon Stewart at the time, it's nice to see that one candidate finally has the courage to blame the troops.