Giuliani Warns Hillary Could Defeat Bush in 2004
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani had some words of
warning for Republicans on Monday: Pay no attention to Hillary Clinton's denials
that she won't seek the White House in 2004.
In fact, the man known since 9/11 as America's Mayor said the GOP better be
prepared to take her on, or else run the risk of repeating the same errors that
allowed Bill Clinton to become president in 1992.
"I think Republicans have to take the threat of Hillary running seriously,"
Giuliani told nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity. "From the point of
view of those who look at the world the way we [Republicans] do - [she] has to
be rated as somebody we've got to worry about."
The man who squared off against Sen. Clinton for part of the 2000 Senate race
- and who got an up close and personal view of Hillary's scorched earth campaign
tactics - counseled, "Anything can happen. We can't make the same mistake we
made in 1992 - and look what happened to the country for eight years."
Asked if Sen. Clinton has enough national support to be elected president,
Giuliani told Hannity, "I think you have to look at it this way, being
realistic. Anybody that gets nominated could conceivably get elected. The
toughest thing is getting nominated."
"It's very, very hard to get to the point of being the Republican candidate
or the Democratic candidate," he explained. "Look at all these Democrats that
are killing each other to get there."
"Once you get there, even if you begin 30 points behind - something goes
wrong and you're the next president," the ex-mayor said.
Giuliani said that "right now, if she decided to run, unless something
drastically went wrong, she'd be nominated. She's going to beat Dean and she's
going to beat Clark and she's going to beat all of them."
And while he still thinks Mrs. Clinton would probably lose to President Bush,
he reminded that in politics, there are no guarantees. "How do I know what's
going to happen between now and then?" he told Hannity.
Is Bush's political team listening to Giuliani's warnings? Apparently, they
are. In the next breath the ex-mayor revealed that he attended game two of the
World Series Sunday night with senior Bush political advisor Karl
Rove.
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