{"id":14234,"date":"2008-01-14T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14234.html"},"modified":"2008-01-14T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T19:20:10","slug":"giuliani-prayer-and-the-last-refuge-of-a-scoundrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/giuliani-prayer-and-the-last-refuge-of-a-scoundrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Giuliani, prayer, and the last refuge of a scoundrel"},"content":{"rendered":"

How far has Rudy Giuliani’s slipped? Put it this way: the former mayor has, all of a sudden, discovered religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rudy Giuliani began his Sunday in an unusual place for him – at church – and with an unusual fellow congregant, the controversial former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris.<\/p>\n

The former mayor, whose second divorce has left him on the outs with his own Catholic Church, started a three-day bus tour through Florida Sunday with a visit to the bilingual El Rey Jesus, a Hispanic evangelical Christian church here. <\/p>\n

For the mayor — who as a young man considered the priesthood — it marked the sudden discovery of God on the campaign trail, with a speech that was part sermon and part political pitch. <\/p>\n

“This is a beautiful church, and I can feel the spirit of God in this room,” Giuliani told the 7,000 or so worshipers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For crying out loud, is anyone really gullible enough to believe such shameless pandering?<\/p>\n

Also note that Giuliani has a standard stump speech he uses every day on the campaign trail. It includes a firm position against illegal immigration, and includes Giuliani’s unwavering belief that those who want to become U.S. citizens must learn “to speak, read and write English.”<\/p>\n

Oddly enough, while speaking at this Miami church, Giuliani omitted all of this from his remarks. I’m sure it was just an oversight — and had nothing to do with the large Latino population in South Florida, most of which votes Republican.
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\nThe AP report added<\/a>:<\/p>\n

With his plan for winning the GOP presidential nomination riding largely on a Florida victory at the end of the month, Rudy Giuliani asked an evangelical congregation for prayers instead of votes Sunday and quoted scripture to evoke a message of hope and perseverance.<\/p>\n

“I’m not coming here to ask for your vote,” he said. “That’s up to you and it’s not the right place. But I am coming here to ask you for something very special and more important: I’m asking for your prayers.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Given Giuliani’s declining poll numbers and empty campaign coffers, I suppose the former mayor can use all the help he can get.<\/p>\n

But maybe Giuliani hasn’t heard — God has already endorsed Huckabee<\/a>, so Giuliani is probably barking up the wrong tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How far has Rudy Giuliani’s slipped? Put it this way: the former mayor has, all of a sudden, discovered religion. Rudy Giuliani began his Sunday in an unusual place for him – at church – and with an unusual fellow congregant, the controversial former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. The former mayor, whose second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}