Must be the season, because so is Carl Brinker, and he's pretty peeved at what he sees as the hand-him-up leadership of NYS and the Senate Dems.
Onto the matter of Rudolph Giuliani writing opportunistic op-eds, Zinger writes:
Dear NGD:
I caught this bit in the Daily News from Liz Benjamin's blog:But he [Giuliani] also suggested that the chaos in Albany - “It’s almost like a stand-off at the O.K. Corral” - had presented a unique chance to shame legislators into action.
“This was always a broken state government,” Giuliani said. “Now it has collapsed, it has virtually collapsed."
Shame? Funny word to use in connection with Rudy Giuliani. Does he feel shame? Perhaps he does feel shame for foisting a corrupt fire/police commissioner on the people of NYC - and then trying to make that person Secretary of Homeland Security for the nation. Or shame that the very same commissioner - Bernie Kerik - used an apartment set aside as a "rest" room for 9/11 rescuers and recovery personnel as a love pad. Perhaps he feels shame that he's been married 3 times - including his first marriage of 14 years to his cousin. Or shame because he is rumored to have carried on an affair with his mayoral press secretary during his second marriage, and then with another woman after her. Or perhaps now he's a bit embarrassed that he announced his divorce from his second wife to the world at a press conference...before he actually told his second wife. Or, perhaps he's totally shameless. That sounds about right.
Yes, many are hoping that the upstanding and morally righteous Rudy Giuliani runs for Governor next year.
We can watch him reenact last year's Presidential campaign script. He can boast about "taming" NYC, an ungovernable place before him. That should once again win him many NYC votes. Or, perhaps, he can tout his (new) anti-choice, anti-gay rights/marriage equality credentials - that will help him in the 'burbs. Or he can just concentrate on the upstate vote by touting his family values; I'm sure all three of his families are worth a lot to him.
Or, he could abandon those positions and go back once more to being a progressive Republican...and get destroyed in a Republican primary.
Maybe he should just heed this little voice from the hinterlands: Time's up, Rudy. Go away. Now.
Sincerely,
John Peter Zinger
Hard to argue with Zinger or Brinker.
