{"id":1429,"date":"2009-12-21T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/12\/21\/giuliani-watch-gop-poised-to-let-the-big-one-get-away\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T00:16:00","slug":"giuliani-watch-gop-poised-to-let-the-big-one-get-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/12\/21\/giuliani-watch-gop-poised-to-let-the-big-one-get-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Giuliani Watch: GOP poised to let the big one get away?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/2009\/12\/21\/2009-12-21_rudy_giuliani_will_not_run.html\">The New York Daily News is reporting<\/a> that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is preparing to bow out of the 2010 political season.<\/p>\n<p>No run for governor, no run for US Senator, no run period, despite consistent polls showing him with a sizable advantage over most Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>According to the DN, Giuliani will endorse Rick Lazio, the man who stepped into Rudy&#8217;s shoes once before, in the Senate contest against Hillary Rodham Clinton<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he former mayor has decided to stay in the private sector, where he will continue his work as a security consultant, a sometimes TV commentator and, increasingly, a celebrity draw on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/U.S.+Republican+Party\" title=\"U.S. Republican Party\">GOP<\/a> fund-raising circuit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"TixyyLink\">My two cents&#8217; worth?  I&#8217;ve been wringing my hands for months over what I call the right-wing industrial complex.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easier and far more lucrative for conservative luminaries to work the celebrity-book-deal-pundit-world.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also safer for politicians with complicated backgrounds, which Giuliani has in spades.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some speculation that Giuliani could still be cultivating a 2012 presidential bid, but that&#8217;s a big stretch at this point. <\/p>\n<p>The Daily News opines that this decision effectively ends Giulani&#8217;s career in elected office.<\/p>\n<p>All of which leaves the Republican Party in New York with, well, Rick Lazio.  To bounce back big in 2010, the GOP will need strong recruiting.<\/p>\n<p>If the Daily News is right, this isn&#8217;t a great start.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Daily News is reporting that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[886],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}