{"id":1546,"date":"2007-11-02T04:52:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T09:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2007-11-02T04:52:52","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T09:52:52","slug":"a-tale-of-two-brooklynites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1546","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Brooklynites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politico says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1107\/6670.html\">Norm is going to endorse Rudy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) plans to endorse the presidential campaign of former New York Mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/candidates2008\/gopcandidates\/rudy_giuliani_candidate.html\"><strong><font color=\"#003399\" size=\"2\">Rudolph Giuliani<\/font><\/strong><\/a>, according to Republican sources.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a union of two Brooklyn-native, non-Protestant former mayors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True &#8211; although I&#8217;m wondering what &#8220;non-protestant&#8221; has to do with it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Giuliani will also make a joint appearance in Washington on Friday morning to accept the endorsement of another U.S. senator whose name has not been disclosed, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The endorsement holds clear advantages for each of them. It could bolster Giuliani\u2019s argument that as nominee, he would have the chance a better chance of putting certain Democratic states in play than some other Republicans would.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pat Shortridge writes at TvM:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ideologically, the former mayors are compatible. Norm is a bit more conservative than Rudy on social issues; Rudy more conservative than Norm on the fiscal side.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As with his work on things like uncovering corruption in the UN Oil for Food program, Norm realizes that there\u2019s more to being a conservative than fiery speeches, you have to get results.\u00a0 The same applies to Rudy.\u00a0 In Rudy, I\u2019m sure Norm sees executive competence,\u00a0ability to get things done, and a willingness to lead on tough issues.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the corollary is both have been willing to lead in the <em>wrong <\/em>direction, at times.<\/p>\n<p>Still &#8211; it&#8217;ll be big news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico says Norm is going to endorse Rudy: Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) plans to endorse the presidential campaign of former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, according to Republican sources. It\u2019s a union of two Brooklyn-native, non-Protestant former mayors. True &#8211; although I&#8217;m wondering what &#8220;non-protestant&#8221; has to do with it? Giuliani will also make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}