Over at Opinion Journal Phillip Klein shows his commitment to environmental issues by recycling moronic wingnut bullshit.
"Rudy Giuliani [is] probably the most underqualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency," Sen. Joe Biden declared during Tuesday's Democratic debate in Philadelphia. "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11."
The crowd roared with laughter, and liberal blogger Josh Marshall wrote, "Okay, I may have to endorse Biden after this tear against Rudy."
With the end of the dreaded Bush era approaching, Rudy Giuliani has slowly begun to supplant the president as the leading hate figure among liberals, a reality that will only help Mr. Giuliani in his efforts to overcome his differences with conservatives and win the Republican nomination.
Ah. "Bush derangement syndrome," back in the ecosystem.
There never was much to the idea of "irrational Bush hatred." Hatred of Bush was always the proper patriotic and intellectual response to his presidency, as is now generally acknowledged.
Likewise, contempt for Rudy Giuliani is now the proper patriotic and intellectual response to the prospect of a Giuliani Presidency (urk!), as he is a self-aggrandizing megalomaniacal authoritarian clown.
More to the point, the time for full-throated Giuliani contempt is now, just as the proper time for Bush-hatred was 1999, or at least 2002-3. There is no greater danger facing our nation today than the danger that Rudy Giuliani might be taken seriously.
That's just a cold, accurate, sober assessment of his candidacy.
(For bonus yuks, Klein gets snide about Olbermann's alleged refusal to make a correction about a Giuliani remark, when his own link tells us that Olbermann did make the correction after all! Ha ha! What a douchebag! Par for the course in a sloppy, phoned-in column like this one, though.)