Really?...So I was struck by a particular paragraph in his rah-rah for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who in just a little bit will accept the Republican nomination for vice president. Let's look at it, shall we?
"Governor Palin represents a new generation. She's already one of the most successful governors in America -- and the most popular. And she already has more executive experience than the entire Democratic ticket combined. She's been a mayor; I love that.... Then she became governor. She's reduced taxes, she's reduced government spending."
The Rudy Giuliani I covered during my days on the New York Daily News editorial board would have sneered at Palin's experience. The "city" Palin led -- Wasilla -- had an estimated 8,471 people in 2005. The upper East side of Manhattan, the area where Giuliani lived during his eight years as mayor, has 23 times more people than that. The state Palin leads had 670,053 in 2006. And the $4.3 billion supplemental she signed in April is dwarfed by the last budget signed by Giuliani in 2001 that totaled more than $41 billion.
Palin cut some taxes. But she also smacked a windfall profits tax on the oil industry last year that collected an estimated $6 billion in the fiscal year that ended on June 30 and is fueling a budget surplus this year. I suppose Palin and Sen. John McCain agreed to disagree on this, since McCain is against such a tax.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/09/does_giuliani_believe_what_he.htmlGiuliani is the lowest of the lowest.
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