This weekend Giuliani was publiclly jeered in Florida according to the Associated Press when he rejected the idea of a flat-tax. After he realized he was on the unpopular end of the issue he said he would look into the issue further. (FYI In 1996 Giuliani said such a tax system “would be a terrible mistake for urban areas,”)

The campaign then announced Giuliani was studying up on NASCAR by reading a book meant to introduce woman to the sport. Now there are three things wrong about that can you sort them out? Ok I will just give it to you.
1) Giuliani admitted he knew nothing about the sport but was now going to attend a race (obvious political ploy)
2) Rather than, you know, watching the thing or talking to people Giuliani was going to read a book about it. Pointy-headed-intellectual as Rush would call them
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3) The book, given to him by the author, was written by a woman for woman. The obvious “was the book meant for Hillary Clinton” comment probably came to your mind too

If someone would have asked me not long ago I would have given Rudy Giuliani some good advice about his presidential run. I would have told him or someone in his campaign to have taken some time out of his schedule to visit Upstate, NY. I don’t mean a quick tour with a bunch of aides to a campaign fundraiser, I mean really spent some time.

See Upstate, NY is a lot different from the city. Out here you will find plenty of people who fit the description of more moderate southerners. I’ve spent many a family holiday with NASCAR playing while family members changed the channel back and forth with FOX News. You will find plenty of people who like the idea of a flat-tax, hate the idea of illegal immigration, are against abortion and who basically live in a church.

I once attended a college town hall where Janet Reno spoke. There were few college students in the audience but plenty of locals who scorned the former Attorney General for “trying to take my guns away”. (We love guns up here) One man gave a rambling lecture about how he was sick of liberals telling him he cannot hit his children. It was an interesting time.

Giuliani would have found that this part of New York State, the bastion of Democratic Politics it is, wouldn’t take kindly to his brand of moderate Republicanism and it might well have been an omen of things to come. I don’t see much support for Giuliani here and I can’t imagine much in the really rural areas of the Southern U.S.