Everyone wants a piece of me, including a fellow New Yorker who should know better. Alright, I’m not really a New Yorker, but politics being what it is, even New Yorkers understand opportunity when it knocks, and I’m at the door delivering the goods. They respect that.
What they don’t respect is King Kong chest-beating by Mister Mayor. Rudy Giuliani got stunned by Fred Thompson’s quick rise up the polls last week and needed to do something drastic to show how tough he can be, since he hasn’t been tough on anyone but ex-wives in years.
What’s Rudykong doing now? Besides chest thumping on top of the Empire State Building? He’s doing what every good politican does– separate yourself from your nearest rival, in this case Fred Thompson.
How does he pull it off? By attacking a woman. Me. That shows you how tough Rudy is.
In a classic case of “she said, he said” Rudy bought a full page advertisement in the New York Times to accuse me of attacking the character of Iraq commander General David Petraeus. Puhleeze, Rudy. I don’t even know the man. I only know what I read in the papers.
Still, I’m suspicious about the books Bush and Petraeus have cooked up regarding troop levels in Iraq. Let’s see if I have this right– everyone calls for the US to reduce troops in Iraq. Bush escalates the war and calls it a “surge” of 30,000 troops. Then the president’s uniformed lap dog says “All is going well. Let’s bring home 30,000 troops next year.”
That’s a troop reduction, Republican style. If Macy’s raised the prices of their shoes by 30-percent, then, a few months later had a sale of 25-percent off, should we applaud their effort? I think not.
All this tit for tat is not becoming of a man who likes to hit women. It all started when Rudy read an advertisement from MoveOn.org which accused Petraeus of cooking the books in Iraq– “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?” Is that a catchy phrase, or what?
Sorry, Rudy. I didn’t have anything to do with that one. MoveOn acted independently. Call off your dogs before someone gets hurt.
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