Rudy Giuliani says he's still a better choice than John McCain for president

With friends like these, why do rivals bother with opposition researchers? Rudy Giuliani was on CNN Tuesday talking about John McCain and the presidential campaign, and said that he still thinks he was the best choice to be president. Giuliani was there to buff up McCain and his foreign policy credentials in the wake of the rock Wesley Clark tossed the other day.

When asked by interviewer John Roberts whether he thought he was better qualified than McCain to run the country, Giuliani said, "I thought I was best-qualified to be president." (The video is here, and this exchange comes around the 3:12 mark).

Now not many politicians would leave a race as Giuliani did and say later, "You know, the voters were right, I wasn't the best choice." Political egos don't cut that way. But the McCain camp had to wince, assuming they're getting CNN down there in Colombia. The idea behind sending surrogates out is to have them make you look good, not make you look like a consolation prize.

Throughout the interview, Giuliani sounded as much like a candidate as a surrogate, talking up his own political resume in a session that had a peculiar deja vu feeling to it. But Giuliani assured Roberts, "I'm not a candidate. I'm not a choice." Not at the moment, no, but ...

-- Scott Martelle

Photo: Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times 

Comments

[John Crawford]

Rudy is the term "dipstick" personified.

[Dirk]

Rudy was a candidate until his policy of socialized adultery became publicly known. That dude is slimy.

[Brad]

If you think that George W. Bush is a great president then Rudy Giuliani is obviously the most qualified to follow in his footseps.

[McCain is Bush]

Barack Obama is also a better candidate than John "Bush" McCain

[VJ Machiavelli]

Rudy's time has gone. He should ride off into the sunset.
or take a four months off and go to Siberia for a vacation.

VJ Machiavelli
http://www.vjmachiavelli.blogspot.com
ps.This election is all about shoes, yes shoes do we keep them on or do we take them off and never put them on again when we board a plane. it's that simple. On shoes or off shoes

[dave]

any slug would be a better choice - and better qualified.
not so rudy.