Giuliani’s team gets picked up for key RNC job

June 2, 2008

At the risk of sounding rude, I found this report from Marc Ambinder rather amusing.

The Republican National Committee has hired many of its Victory 2008 directors. These are the folks who will be in charge of spending the many of millions of dollars that the party doles out for GOTV efforts. Many of them are young — very young — are veterans of the Giuliani presidential campaign, and before that, veterans of the 2006 RNC field operation run by Mike DuHaime, formerly the Giuliani campaign manager.

Yes, right, Giuliani. I remember him.

He’s the one who spent tens of millions of dollars to compete in eight Republicans presidential contests earlier this year, losing all of them by wide margins, and who quit the race without so much as a single delegate.

He’s the one who only managed to break double digits in only one primary, and who lost by 21 points in his most competitive contest.

It’s his team that has been hired by the RNC for its get-out-the-vote efforts.

Thank goodness.

Maybe they can hire Mark Penn too.

  • Shhhh! Don’t say that so loudly! They might catch on that this is a bad idea.

    Or, possibly, they are trying to lose this year. I have been wondering about that.

  • His team is the only one stupid enough or young & ambitious enough to be hired for this in large numbers – all the real pro operators don’t want to be too close to the Presidential campaign, as it’s bidding fair to be a McGovernesque disaster, and they don’t want their reps smeared with it.

  • Excellent. The bubble-dwellers continue to rule the GOP (by default since the ones who quit the Koolaid are pretty much sitting this one out). And Giuliani’s bubble makes McCain’s look like celophane, so it could be blowout time.

    It’s almost looking like the GOP wants to lose so that they don’t have to clean up Bush’s mess. I hope America realizes that cleaning up after the worst president ever is not going to be an easy task, but I doubt if Obama will get the credit for whatever he can accomplish.

  • Outstanding news.

    Maybe they can get whoever was in charge of prepping Lazy Fred Thompson for his public events to do the same for McCain now. People will wonder if he’s dead.

  • Ghoul spawn—running the GOPer Victory 2008? This is like Berlin, 1945—marching children out to meet the oncoming tanks.

    The March of the McChimpfuhrer Youth….

  • Many of them are young — very young — are veterans of the Giuliani presidential campaign, and before that, veterans of the 2006 RNC field operation run by Mike DuHaime, formerly the Giuliani campaign manager.

    Awww wook. They’re bringing in the Future Karl Roves of America brigade. Awen’t dey so kewt?

  • CB: You’re talking about Team Giuliani, and you’re worried about sounding rude?

    No one will accuse you of snark here. Sometimes the jokes write themselves, and no snark is even necessary.

  • Amen on the thank goodness!

    Let’s hope they keep making these decisions.

    There are times I look at the young people and wonder WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM?? Not that I am THAT old, but, seriously. After the last eight years, how could ANYONE, in any kind of good conscience, call themselves Gooper?

    I. DO. NOT. GET. IT.

  • Not to mention that Giuliani started off with an insane name-recognition value compared to guys like Huckabee and Romney, but they ended up slaughtering him anyway. It was Giuliani’s race to lose, and he didnt just lose – he got creamed.

  • Sometimes you have to think outside the box. That one state strategy came sooooo close.

  • It’s almost looking like the GOP wants to lose so that they don’t have to clean up Bush’s mess. I hope America realizes that cleaning up after the worst president ever is not going to be an easy task, but I doubt if Obama will get the credit for whatever he can accomplish.

    RacerX:absolutely – there are some elections that are poisoned chalices, better for the party to lose than win, for their longterm grip on power – like 1976, or the UK 1977 election, for instance. I fear me what damage will be done to the Democrats for having power in the next 4 years, however unfair that would be.

  • Maybe this means Rudy’s agreed to be McCain’s Cheney. I’m sure all his undisclosed locations will have cigars and monogrammed towels, and will all be located in prime terror targets. If there’s anything that will bust McCain’s meager campaign budget, it’d be supporting Rudy’s pimp lifestyle.

  • Well, the GOP may want to lose, and it certainly looks like it, but what they don’t want is a landslide, and honestly, it looks like that’s what going to bury them. The GOP should fear a mandate for change.

  • After the last eight years, how could ANYONE, in any kind of good conscience, call themselves Gooper?

    Ms. Joanne, to those who belong to the sadistic subspecies Homo Derelictus, it is always better to be the Gooper than to be the Goopee….

  • “who quit the race without so much as a single delegate.”

    WRONG! He won… a single delegate (I believe it was in New Hampshire). Show some respect! Actually, I think it’s funnier that way- he spent $51 million dollars on one delegate. That’s the most expensive delegate in political history.

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