Giuliani Flounders on Executive Experience (Again)
[And vague liveblogging the speeches - I keep updating below...]
Well, Rudy Giuliani’s wading back into the fray with his old tag line about ‘executive experience’ again.
He’s speaking at the RNC tonight and his prepared remarks include the line:
Governor Palin represents a new generation. She’s already one of the most successful governors in America — and the most popular. And she already has more executive experience than the entire Democratic ticket.
This mirrors his comments during the debates about Obama, Clinton and every other senator in the race - that they’ve ‘never governed a city, never governed a state, never governed an agency, never run a military unit, never run anything.’ [That quote is specifically about Obama this week on CBS, but it's the same line he often used before his campaign imploded at the start of the year.]
You know who else Palin trumps, according to Giuliani?
John McCain.
His basic argument is that senators aren’t qualified to be president. He argued it in the debates last year, saying McCain had ‘never run a city, never run a state, never run a government.’
To bring it up AGAIN at the convention seems the height of… Giulianiness, I guess. I don’t have a word for actively undercutting the person you’re ostensibly supporting through an apparent misunderstanding of the argument you’re making.
Romney’s speaking as I’m writing this. Here are some quotes (I think I’ve got them right):
We need change alright. From a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington.
…
It’s time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother.
Um… is he fucking kidding me? (Also, does he not know what ‘Big Brother’ means?)
Update: Yikes! Huckabee just referred to McCain as his ’second choice’. (Awww, and the ‘elite media’)
Update II: Heh. Republicans chanting ‘Zero! Zero!’ about Obama/Biden are also using a hand gesture that to them apparently means ‘Zero!’, and to the rest of us means, ‘OK!’
Update III: Led by Giuliani, the entire Republican Convention just giggled at ‘community organizer’. What?
Update IV: ‘No time for on-the-job training…’ Like Palin would get?
Update V: Whoops, Rudi deviated from the script, and had to walk the delegates through the concept of ‘good change’ vs ‘bad change’ - they’re so used to not applauding change. Oh, but now they’re chanting, “Drill, baby, drill’ and interrupting Rudy.
Update VI: Holy crap this is awkward - Rudy keeps pausing for cheers, and then they have to find something to cheer. Plus, there’s a guy who finds Rudy hilarious close to the FoxNews mic.
Update VII: Eek! FoxNews, too close to the Hitler Youth-looking guy angrily chanting USA in response to a line on which everyone else was cheering happily.
Update VIII: Rudy deviated from the script. He said Obama didn’t think Palin’s town was ‘cosmopolitan enough’ since they might ‘cling to religion there’. They loved that. Oooh, and he’s going for the ’sexist’ angle, saying we’re questioning whether or not Palin will have enough time to spend with her children.
Update IX: When they cheer Rudy all together, it sounds like ‘boo’. Hey, it’s Palin!
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