Yes, except does anyone really give a damn about Rudy Giuliani
anymore? The great weakness in his wait-for-it strategy was that if
all the other guys, by choice or necessity, wound up waiting for it
too, his essential superfluity would come roaring back into glaring
focus. This is exactly what's happening. Outside of Rudy's
campaign, whose needs and desires are disappointed by the other
guys yet satisfied by Rudy? Even if there's some hard core of
support that can answer that question, it's got to muster some kind
of challenge to the hearty enthusiasm that still powers the other
guys. And that's all the Giuliani campaign's got to work with. Can
they? Will they? Should they bother?
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James Poulos is a doctoral student at Georgetown and the former Political Editor of Culture11. His writing has been published by The American Conservative, The National Interest, The New Atlantis, Partnership for a Secure America, and The Weekly Standard. In addition to AmSpecBlog, he has blogged at The American Scene, Doublethink, and Postmodern Conservative, which he founded. With degrees in political science and law from Duke and USC, he is currently at work on a dissertation about life after Napoleon. In his spare time he anti-blogs at Pish Tosh.