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Rudy Giuliani hits convention home run

Rudy Giuliani definitely hit the ball out of the park tonight at the Republican National Convention.

It’s late and I have to go to sleep, so let me briefly state what I noticed in the speech:

(1) Giuliani is a great orator and he made the speech of his life. If only George W Bush could give half as good a speech.

(2) Giuliani made a compelling argument in favor of preemptive military action. This is not something George W Bush himself has done a very good job of. But Rudy clearly explained that we need to go out and attack our enemies before they attack us.

(3) Giuliani went on the attack against Kerry clearly laying out why he’s a flip flopper. Until I heard Rudy explain it to me, I didn’t really get it. But telling the Arabs he’s against the Israeli security fence, then a few months later saying he supported it, that’s a pretty big flip flop.

(4) Giuliani came out with a clear pro-Israel stance. He condemned the Munich Olympics massacre, he condemned Yasser Arafat, and he condemned Muslims who scapegoat Israel when the real problem in the Islamic world are their own governments.

With this speech, Rudy Giuliani comes out as the front runner in 2008. John McCain is too old to run for President in 2008, and his speech was just boring. The only thing anyone will remember about John McCain’s speech is his mention of filmmaker Michael Moore, which is really pretty tangential to what the Republican Convention is supposed to be about.

The only negative for George W Bush tonight is that his own speech later this week will suck in comparison to Rudy Giuliani’s home run performance.

posted Monday, August 30, 2004