Thurssssday….
I’m a little slow today, my schedule at work has subsided somewhat as the calendar year draws to a (gulp) close. And so, today has been a struggle to monitor a few projects while remaining on task. Also, it’s been increasingly difficult to think of something to write. I’ve put off doing posts on these topics:
1. Endorsement of a presidential candidate. (duh.)
2. Comprehensive ranking of all sports announcers, highlighting the best and the worst. (too ambitious)
3. Red Sox beat the Cardinals (again).
4. How much I actually like that song that features Amy Lee of Evanescence and which I think is called “I’m Broken.” (No, I don’t know why, either.)
5. A spooky novella that highlights supernatural forces at work in a female-dominated office setting during the Halloween season, when Satan’s powers are at their peak.
6. Why I must hear the song ‘1985‘ seventeen times per day on the radio.
7. Coming up with another tired list (Oh, shoot. Too late) as a piece-gimmick.
However, this all changed when I stumbled upon the following nugget in the local news of the hometown paper of MFG.
Suffice it to say that I, as an upstanding member of central Kansas, may now be attending this event. As we’ve discussed, I tend to veer sharply away from Republican ideals, and I am constantly repulsed by the metamorphosis of the former NYC mayor into a harping shill for the GOP.
Sure, the man of the year offered some competent leadership for New Yorkers after the tragedy of 9-11, (Did anyone even know he was a Republican? Leading a pro-Democrat city in America?) but that in no way justifies his stance within the Republican Party as the anti-(Bill) Clinton, as some media and sites suggest, chortle, or claim.
First of all, to champion Giuliani while smearing Clinton is ridiculous and hypocritical. We’ve all heard countless grassroots GOP arguments (And by grassroots, I mean, Midwestern GOP’ers that have grass growing roots in their teeth. Ha! Came up with that myself. OK, I don’t really mean it. I mean ground-level, middle-class, taxes-and-religion Republicans.) Anyway, we’ve all heard countless GOP arguments that Clinton was an awful president because (a) he cheated on his wife, or (b) he lied about it. And, following that, (c) under oath.
Well, it is wise not to judge, because Mr. Giuliani is far from the anti-Clinton. Remember his Senate campaign of 1999? Of course you don’t. His mistress – and his battle with cancer – ended it. (Although, he did have prostate cancer, and at the risk of being flippant … the results of treatment may have ended his cavorting with the mistress, if you get my drift.)
Yet he is widely regarded as the savior of New York, and a bastion of Republicanism. It’s fine to put an affable face on a party, and jet him around the country to wile up yokels that he previously had no thought nor care about –however, I plead that listeners just be cognizant of who he is, in the GOP eyes and in ours. He’s not bad. But he’s no saint. And his speeches and empty passion with eyes on 2008 are becoming annoying.
That said, I’ve got just the shirt to wear to this chamber event. I know Hizzoner will love it.
See, I can spout off about nothing on end! I’m a true blogger. Till next time.
Comments are off for this post