Rudy: Yes, I Voted For McGovern, But I Actually Preferred Nixon

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

Rudy: Yes, I Voted For McGovern, But I Actually Preferred Nixon
By Greg Sargent - November 23, 2007, 9:25AM


As he seeks to court GOP primary voters, one potential sticking point has been his opposition to the Vietnam War in the early 1970s and his vote for Dem George McGovern in 1972. But Rudy has now concocted a new explanation for that vote: He didn't mean it.

Or so he says in a new interview with The Weekly Standard:

"I had traditionally been a Democrat," Giuliani told me in a recent interview in Las Vegas. "It was almost like a reflex mode. I actually remember saying to myself, 'If I was a person really deciding who should be president right now, I'd probably vote for Nixon, because I think the country would be safer with Nixon.'"
Hmmm. Does this mean that Rudy didn't vote for the candidate who he himself thought would keep the country safer? Seems a bit odd. Foreign policy and national security issues were kind of front and center during that campaign.

The article also delves into Rudy's switch to the GOP, which came in 1980. In the piece Rudy seems to suggest that this was driven partly by his discontent with Dems on foreign policy. But as the Standard article accurately points out, Rudy's switch to the GOP neatly coincided with his desire to get a political appointment from the newly-minted Reagan administration.

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/11/rudy_yes_i_voted_for_mcgovern_but_i_actually_preferred_nixon.php

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. "I'm right. And I'm a Republican."

His discomfort comes from the obviously oxymoronic nature of that position.

You should have stopped at "I voted for McGovern", Rudy.

[kurth]

2. Rudy: "Yes, I Ordered Lobster, But I Actually Preferred Shit"

[rAVES]

3. So full of shit! "the country would be safer"

as if he actually gives a flying fuck about America...

[Hieronymus]

4. Cons are stupid enough to accept that explanation.

[frogcycle]

5. does he not realize

that his casting that infamous vote brought on 9/11?

For shame! He should be sent to gitmo post haste.

[rzemanfl]

6. He was actually innocent, but I proved him guilty. I bet this former

prosecutor could say that more than once.

[donheld]

7. People are really incredibly stupid

Anyone who believes Guiliani has lost his/her mind.