January 4, 2007
LEARNING TO LOVE THE SIGMOIDOSCOPE:
McCain Lines Up N.Y. Money Men, Raising Pressure on Rudy Giuliani (Jennifer Siegel, Jan 05, 2007, The Forward)
Arizona Senator John McCain has scored an early victory in the battle between GOP presidential frontrunners by locking up support from several New York-area Republican moneymen also coveted by his northeastern rival, former Big Apple mayor Rudy Giuliani.McCain’s stable of national finance co-chairs includes Lewis Eisenberg, a multimillionaire financier from Rumson, N.J. who previously served as finance chairman for the Republican National Committee and was a key fundraiser for former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman.
According to a 140-page memo leaked to the New York Daily News and published earlier this week, Eisenberg’s name — along with that of fellow Jewish financier and McCain supporter Henry Kravis — was originally included on a “prospective leadership†list drafted by the Giuliani campaign.
The disclosure of the former mayor’s campaign plan — which acknowledges the concern that Giuliani might “drop out of [the] race†due to potentially “insurmountable†personal and political vulnerabilities — has underscored his scramble for some of the same deep-pocketed donors recruited by McCain.
Maverick is pretty much treating the Mayor like a prison wife these days. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 4, 2007 7:25 PM
I hope the media are doing their usual number on Giuliani and he's not wimping out.
Posted by: erp at January 4, 2007 9:40 PMThe MSM is helping clear the way for McCain. Then they will turn on him, watch him implode, and the GOP won't have anybody to go to. Look at recent articles in the WAPO where there are subtle hits at McCain's health, mental stability, and lack of support from the GOP base.
Posted by: AWW at January 5, 2007 7:56 AMThe press doesn't matter. Ask presidents Mondale and Kerry.
Posted by: oj at January 5, 2007 8:02 AMI disagree OJ. The press matters a lot. An empty suit like Kerry should never have gotten as close as he did, but the press dragged his rotten corpse right up to the finish line.
Posted by: Lisa at January 5, 2007 10:57 AMPresidents Gramm and Connally had lots of money, too.
McCain cannot win the nomination on Hardball or the Today Show. Nor can he do it by speaking canned lines between clenched teeth, fed to him by his advisors, that supposedly will mollify the base.
I find it curious that you sweepingly say Rudy will be utterly rejected by the religious right, while McCain will be embraced. That is illogical.
Now Rudy may not be running. Or he may have reached his level of incompetence (in trying to assemble an effective national campaign). But all the money in the world is not going to buy McCain one vote in any Republican primary. He needs more than bribery to win - does he have the 'right' stuff?
Posted by: jim hamlen at January 5, 2007 11:16 AM
Yes, they were challengers with no chance of unseating the favorite in a hierarchical party. Like W last time, McCain isn't the favorite because he has more money, he has more money because he's the nominee.
Posted by: oj at January 5, 2007 11:44 AMThe war kept Kerry close--the press savaged him.
Posted by: oj at January 5, 2007 2:17 PM