Plenty of complaints have been levelled at Rudy for taking the position of the day on things like guns and abortion. Such flip flops I think do little to win your former opponents, who consider you an opportunist, while alienating your former supporters.
Rudy though has now come out with a statement that has seriously angerred many of his NY fans... He stated he supports the Red Sox in the World Series!
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/ny-ussox1024,0,2284597.story
Now I think our emphasis on sports in this nation is pretty bad. At the same time I see people every day who seem to live and die by their team of choice, especially in playoff times. Rudy has always been a "pinstripe bleeding" die hard Yankee fan. I live in NY and people here take this serious. There are MANY who just outright HATE the Red Sox. Even those who are not real sports fans here know though that you CANNOT claim to be a true Yankee fan and ever root for the Red Sox. It can't happen. It would be like seeing America knocked out of contention for an Olympic Gold Medal in 1980 and therefore rooting for the Soviet Union, after they were the ones to knock us out.
I couldn't really give a fig for sports but I see this as a purely sell out move by Rudy which has all of NY talking about him today, and not in a good way.
This is but one more example that he has no core... except a desire to be president.
Rudy though has now come out with a statement that has seriously angerred many of his NY fans... He stated he supports the Red Sox in the World Series!
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/ny-ussox1024,0,2284597.story
Newsday.com
Rudy backs Red Sox during Beantown visit
By JAY LINDSAY
Associated Press Writer
1:47 PM EDT, October 23, 2007
BOSTON
Sounds like a baseball flip-flop. Rudy Giuliani, a lifelong New York Yankees fan, said Tuesday he's pulling for their most hated rivals, the Boston Red Sox, to win the World Series over the Colorado Rockies.
"I'm rooting for the Red Sox," the Republican presidential contender said in response to a question, sparking applause at the Boston restaurant where he was picking up a local endorsement.
"I'm an American League fan, and I go with the American League team, maybe with the exception of the Mets," he said. "Maybe that would be the one time I wouldn't because I'm loyal to New York."
Giuliani's Yankees lost in the first round of the playoffs, then lost their manager when Giuliani's friend, Joe Torre, refused to accept a pay cut and walked away. Giuliani said the Yankees had "a great season."
The former New York mayor said his declaration of temporary Red Sox loyalty was "not just because I'm here in Massachusetts."
"In Colorado, in the next week or two, you will see, I will have the courage to tell the people of Colorado the same thing, that I am rooting for the Red Sox in the World Series," he said.
Indeed, if Giuliani was pandering, he miscalculated.
In the last presidential election, Colorado went with Republican President Bush, and recent history shows Massachusetts voters would sooner adopt Manhattan clam chowder as the state's official food than vote Republican in 2008.
Of course, just to the north is New Hampshire -- home to many Red Sox fans -- and the nation's first primary.
Copyright © 2007, The Associated Press
Now I think our emphasis on sports in this nation is pretty bad. At the same time I see people every day who seem to live and die by their team of choice, especially in playoff times. Rudy has always been a "pinstripe bleeding" die hard Yankee fan. I live in NY and people here take this serious. There are MANY who just outright HATE the Red Sox. Even those who are not real sports fans here know though that you CANNOT claim to be a true Yankee fan and ever root for the Red Sox. It can't happen. It would be like seeing America knocked out of contention for an Olympic Gold Medal in 1980 and therefore rooting for the Soviet Union, after they were the ones to knock us out.
I couldn't really give a fig for sports but I see this as a purely sell out move by Rudy which has all of NY talking about him today, and not in a good way.
This is but one more example that he has no core... except a desire to be president.