Opinion: Rudy Giuliani feeds his GOP listeners red meat

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Many Republicans may have an uneasy relationship with Rudy Giuliani, given his support for abortion rights and gay rights, and liberal record on a host of other social issues.

But the former mayor of New York, delivering tonight’s keynote address at the Republican National Convention, gave the party faithful what they wanted -- an unvarnished attack on Barack Obama.

To mounting cheers, he belittled Obama as ‘the least experienced candidate for president in at least 100 years.’

The Times’ Bob Drogin reports that at that point, the Colorado, Texas and Michigan delegations seated directly in front of the stage chanted of Obama’s experience, ‘Zero! zero! zero!’

Giuliani said his characterization ‘was not a personal attack, just a statement of fact. Barack Obama has never led nothing, nada.’

To even louder hurrahs, he added: ‘This is no time for on the job training.’

For at least this one night, Republicans of all stripes gave Giuliani some love.

-- Don Frederick