Who's the real flip-flopper?

The final question of the night came from a Bonita Springs man who wondered why the former mayor of New York could drape himself in Yankee pride then root for the Red Sox.

Rudy Giuliani: "I'm an American League fan. I root for the American League team when they get in the World Series. ... As soon as the World Series (was) over, I rooted for the Yankees again. We’re going to beat you next year." Giuliani noted that the Yanks won four series while he was in office. "And since I've left ... the Yankees have won none."

Mitt Romney: "We waited 87 long years and true suffering Red Sox fans that my family and I are, we could not have been more happy than to see the Red Sox win the World Series except by being able to beat the Yankees when they are ahead three games to none. And so I tell you like most Americans, we love our sports teams and we hate the Yankees."

Comments

where is the blog on the real issues?

Wow I was shocked at how bad some of the candidates did. Romney was almost as argumentative and defensive as McCain. Guiliani was predictable. Thompson seemed like he was on a sedative. The bickering between the candidates was tired. The only person that stood out for me was Huckabee. I am an undecided voter and I haven't really paid attention to the candidates. I am going to have to learn more about what Huckabee stands for, but I was pleasantly surprised.

Romney sucked tonight...and he IS the biggest flip flopper...ever!

http://mikehuckabee.meetup.com/14/?gj=sj2

[ALW]

I agree 10:41 - Romney was the biggest loser on the stage tonight. His "Yes I believe the Bible" answer was truly funny given that his book isn't the one the questioner was holding up.

huckabee is clearly the winner... kuhrazee nutz... scary right wing.. but strong, direct answers and presentation.. clearly the most comfortable in the forum.

..and is it just me.. or did it seem like fred thompson belonged in the "who cares" tier along with duncan hunter and tancredo... at this point.. ron paul and his paultards have a better shot at getting in the white house.

a startling poor performance by Romney.

The AL answer from Guiliani was complete crap. Red Sox don't root for Yankees, and Yankees don't root for Red Sox...EVER.

That's like asking Florida to cheer for FSU and vice versa in a national championship game, just because they're from the same stae...it's offensive and icky, and the only people who do things like that are pandering politicians like the People's Gov.

[RJM]

Lifelong Seminole fan here, and I usually do root for Florida teams in their respective games. It's just sports man.

[Brian B]

Romney the biggest loser? I'm having a hard time reconciling these comments to what I actually saw. Must be some Giuliani / Huckabee supporters out in force here.

At the beginning of the debate when they were going to issues that actually somewhat mattered, I would say Romney was the strongest on the stage. He exposed both Giuliani and Huckabee on illegal immigration and entitlements.

RLM - it's not sports for those fans - yanks and bosox is a rivalry, UF and FSU is a "rivalry" - when the patriots won their first superbowl, during the victory parade they had downtown, all the patriots fans out of nowhere started chanting "Yankees Suck!" over and over - they HATE the Yankees - you apprently tolerate the gators.

I'm an anybody but yankees fan - so when Giuliani gives his AL answer (this is second public time I've known of) it's very disingenuous and a lot like when Hilary switched her allegiance from Chicago where she grew up to the Yanks when she was running for NY Senator - just ridiculous that they'd be disingenuous on a sports question like that.

[ALW]

Well Brian - I guess you see what you want to see and clearly you wanted to see Romney do well. I guess you like Romney's "let the kids starve, go without health care and education and live on the streets" position. I'm sure that will work well ---- not.

I am neither a Rudy nor Huckabee supporter- but I lean towards Mike, nonetheless romney did HORRIBLE! He did not take a firm opinion on tough questions...gays in the military, torture, the bible one...etc. plus that pi$$ing war he and rudy got into was very childish on both parts...i think this was his undoing...

[Brian B]

ALW:
I no more see what I want than you state real facts. If I want someone that is going to take wealth and redistribute it according to their own worldview then I will vote Democrat, not Republican.