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Isn’t it a little strange that people are essentially writing Rudy off because he has not won in the first three states, even though they always knew that he wouldn’t win early? In fact, it seems like his strategy is more or less playing out as planned, other than the fact that Ron Paul keeps beating him.

The point is, Rudy is in remarkably good shape, all things considered. It will still take more than a little luck to get the nomination, but it seems to me that a cross-dressing, thrice married, ex-mayor who used to live with a gay couple was never exactly the prototypical Republican candidate. Yet, essentially, his original strategy is working. It should have been clear to people from the beginning that losing the first three (soon to be 4) states would mean that no one would be talking about him. And yet everyone is suddenly talking about what a flame out he’s been. This, even though there is not exactly a logical choice in the field so far. McCain could win in South Carolina–COULD–but even that would hardly make him the inevitable choice.

Needless to say it’s a really weird year. How weird? Well, the crazy right (that’s just to the right of the hard right) is trying to pump up Hillary. First, there was Karl Rove’s patently racist op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. It is stunning that a paper of journalistic excellence continues to print such filth on its editorial pages. He starts his racist remarks with this:

You couldn’t help but smile. It reminded Democrats what they occasionally like about her. Then Mr. Obama followed with a needless and dismissive, “You’re likable enough, Hillary.”

Her remarks helped wash away the memory of her angry replies to attacks at the debate’s start. His trash talking was an unattractive carryover from his days playing pickup basketball at Harvard, and capped a mediocre night.

Oh that trash-talking basketball player. What a stereotype of Harvard law school students! He goes on:

Mr. Obama has failed to rise to leadership on a single major issue in the Senate. In the Illinois legislature, he had a habit of ducking major issues, voting “present” on bills important to many Democratic interest groups, like abortion-rights and gun-control advocates. He is often lazy, given to misstatements and exaggerations and, when he doesn’t know the answer, too ready to try to bluff his way through.

Well of course he’s lazy! How else do you get to be a top-tier presidential candidate in your mid-40s and the president of the Harvard Law Review? Laziness, of course!

Then the other super-crazy of the GOP rank and file, Bill Kristol, spent all of Fox News Sunday (following the Rudy interview) defending Hillary Clinton. What has the world come to? You can listen to that here.

So in a world where Bill Kristol and Karl Rove stand up for Hillary, where McCain is the hard-core Republican, and where Karl Rove proves to be a racist (Okay, that’s actually not weird), couldn’t Rudy pull this off?

I’m not saying it will happen, I’m just saying this is the way team 9-11 drew it up.

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