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<strong>Filibuster Cartoon</strong>
<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="http://www.filibustercartoons.com/archive.php?id=20080130" target="_blank">Game Over, Rudy</a> (click to view)
<strong>Date: </strong> January 30, 2008

Rudy Giuliani defied all conventional Wisdom. <br>\"I can skip the early states and still win my party\'s nomination,\" he said. <br>And he placed poorly in all the early states. <br>\"But Florida is the only state that matters,\" he said. <br>And he lost Florida too. <br>And then he was done.

[Psudo]

I can definitively say I love the hand-drawn look to this comic.

[martin14]

so he will quit the race today, and endorse McCain..

[Rususeruru]

9-11! 9-11! 9-11! 9-... wait what?

So much for "America's Mayor" honestly, I'm glad he's out of the running. His response to the first bombing of the WTC, putting the emergency response center in the WTC, was completely irrational. I'd hate to see what he'd do at a national level. If he had won the Republican nomination, I suspect he would only have managed to distance many conservatives from the party.

[Calbeck]

I just never really saw Guiliani's appeal at all, and I don't know why he polled so high initially except maybe as a result of wider name recognition and semi-pathological hatred of McCain in most Repub circles.

[Shablabar]

A very astute cartoon. I figured from day one that Giuliani's 'strategy' wouldn't work. Edwards is as good as gone, as well. He perhaps should have been included in the comic!

[WBenson]

Good riddance, 9iu11ani.

[Knoss]

I think Ron Paul would be the best President, but seeing as he is unlikely to get the nomination, I'd say McCain for '08.

[fire_i]

Man JJ, I absolutely love the hand-drawn coloring. How exactly do you do that effect? What kind of media are you using?

As for Guliani himself... well really. What was he thinking? It should have been obvious enough that voters are *extremely heavily* influenced by early results and that he'd lose Florida if he didn't rank well in Iowa and so on. I guess one could say there'd have been a minimum of logic behind his actions if he decided to concentrate on Florida and states preceding it, but going for Florida alone and neglecting everything else... come on now.

[JJ]

It's just pens and pencil crayons, really nothing special. I'm glad some of you guys like it, I don't personally think it scans that well. They look better in person.

But it's fun to do. And it's really a lot less time-consuming, because for the last month or so my tablet thing has been really broken, for reasons I don't quite understand. It's something wrong with my computer and it is very frustrating because the pen is all jerky and stuff.. argh. So I find myself less eager to do cartoons these days. Pencil crayons provide a nice break.

[Murray_Smith]

JJ wrote:

It's just pens and pencil crayons, really nothing special. I'm glad some of you guys like it, I don't personally think it scans that well. They look better in person.

I completely understand what you mean. I've scanned a lot of my drawings, and they never look as good on the computer.

[Scape]

Calbeck wrote:

I just never really saw Guiliani's appeal at all, and I don't know why he polled so high initially except maybe as a result of wider name recognition and semi-pathological hatred of McCain in most Repub circles.

Bingo! That irrational knee jerk reaction thinking on the right is what got Bush jr in power. Thank god we have averted a threepeat.

[Kjorteo]

Electoral-vote.com wrote:

What happened to Rudy Giuliani? He spent all his time and money campaigning in one state--Florida--and came in a distant third. He's finished. He'll drop out soon, probably today. What went wrong? The biggest mistake he made was entering the race in the first place. Only someone with an ego the size of the Empire State Building could think that a mayor of New York (which to much of the Republican base is right up there with Sodom and Gomorrah) and who supports abortion, gay rights, and illegal immigrants would think he had a chance in the Republican primary. Add to this his idea of family values (three wives, numerous girlfriends, and two adult children who don't talk to him) and you don't have the ideal Republican candidate. He was leading in the polls most of 2007, but what he didn't realize was that he was merely a placeholder for "None of the above." All the other contenders had major flaws and nobody looked much beyond his (self-proclaimed) hero image. When the race started in earnest, he was left in the dust. Strategically, he made one mistake. While skipping Iowa as a good idea (he never had a prayer there, and in Iowa, prayers are crucial), he didn't go all out in New Hampshire, an eccentric, libertarian state close to home. If he had gone all out for New Hampshire and won, he would have picked up much-needed momentum. As is, Rudy can go back to making millions advising foreign governments on security matters and collecting wives.

EV sums it up much, much better than I ever could, so I'll just concede the victory and promote them with a quote.

[fire_i]

Murray_Smith wrote:

JJ wrote:

It's just pens and pencil crayons, really nothing special. I'm glad some of you guys like it, I don't personally think it scans that well. They look better in person.

I completely understand what you mean. I've scanned a lot of my drawings, and they never look as good on the computer.

Amen.

[CrazyCanuck007]

he was stupid to put everything into a florida win. idiot....