A Rudy Re-do?

February 13, 2008

Remember Rudy? And I am not talking about the Notre Dame football player. I am referring to Rudy as in Guiliani, the one-time candidate for President who put all of his oranges in the Florida campaign basket. He stood on the sidelines while the game was on first in Iowa, then New Hampshire, South Carolina and others. By the time the game came to Florida, he’d lost so many primaries so badly, his image was shot! You know the rest of the story!

Hillary has done and is still doing the same thing.

Hill and Bill (otherwise known as Bubba) put all of their eggs in the February 5th Super Tuesday that their friend Terry McAuliffe designed for her to wrap up the nomination early. But a funny thing happened on the way to that coronation. Her crown fell off. And when she didn’t wrap it up on Super Tuesday, she’d forgotten about what came after that. Obama built a ground game post Super Tuesday.

And the results are? Obama 8, Hillary 0!

Futher more, Wisconsin and Hawaii are up next week and the score could be 10-0. Hillary has put all of her hopes in the March 4th Texas-Ohio (also Vermont and Rhode Island) game. But can she look like a winner three weeks from now when all of the oxygen is being taken up by Obama’s amazing 10-0 potential ride?

Rudy’s presidential bid on a late-voting, big-state strategy flamed out in Florida before the first flicker of fire and now Hillary might as well be stealing pages from Giuliani’s laughingstock playbook – and she looks headed for the same demise. Heading into their primaries, Giuliani and Clinton held 30-point leads in national polls.

With losses from Maine to Louisiana to Washington state and more stunning defeats last night, Clinton is now pinning all her hopes on megastates like Ohio and Texas. Instead of heading to Wisconsin or Hawaii, which next week will host the next primary contests, Clinton last night headed for the border. The five state primary defeat last weekend and the three state loss last night is just a killer!

Clinton also threatened to steal from Giuliani’s “Handbook for Losing Spectacularly” the idea of making top campaign officials work for free. Ultimately, Clinton decided to keep them on the payroll. And firing staff (and also denying you did it) doesn’t work either. But by then, the stench of losing had already taken hold.

These two New Yorkers (Hill and Rudy) seem headed for the same fate as they’re using the same game plan. The Rudy Re-do? Rudy Deja-vu?

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Election News