I come from a Republican family, but they are good people, and as much as a Huckabee government would frighten me on so many policy grounds, I would be far, far happier with my kin voting for someone who is a genuine, principled conservative than a guy like Rudy Giuliani. “Mayor of 9/11” my ass, Rudy has got to be one of the most irritating, hot-headed, ignorant weirdos running for Commander in Chief of this great nation, and I can only hope the pro-lifeness of my Catholic family gets them to vote for anyone but this sack of French showers.

As waterboarding comes up more than Britney Spears in the news this week thanks to the confirmation hearings of Michael Mukasey, Rudy decided to weigh in thusly

MR. HUNT: Let me try a couple of national security questions. Waterboard. You have noted the Congress has not outlawed it, and that you say it’s not necessarily torture; it depends on the circumstances. John McCain says you are wrong and he says you haven’t served in the military and have no experience in the conduct of warfare. Do you know more about torture than John McCain?

MR. GIULIANI: I can’t say that I do but I do know a lot about intensive questioning and intensive questioning techniques. After all, I have had a different experience than John. John has never been - he has never run city, never run a state, never run a government. He has never been responsible as a mayor for the safety and security of millions of people, and he has never run a law enforcement agency, which I have done.:

[Emphasis mine]

Rudy use that same old tired crap in his press availability here in Atlanta about the top 3 Democratic candidates, and that’s fine. But for him to whip out the same tired-ass talking points against a POW in his own party? I’m sorry, but you’d have to have a particular fetish for flogging yourself in your own nay-nays to think that Rudy is the man you want to represent this country, particularly if you claimed to believe in Jesus.

And also if you want to keep this nation safe from nuclear threats:



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