“It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy”
The Smoking Gun has excerpts from an internal “vulnerability study” done by Rudy Giuliani’s 1993 campaign for mayor. There’s lots of embarrassing stuff for the doomed from the outset 2008 candidate (He married his second cousin. Ewww…), but one of my favorite parts is this quote from the cover of the 450 page doc. It looks like Rudy’s staff are even bigger tools than he is :
So, what does Sun Tzu have to say about pointing out every one of your weaknesses to the “enemy”?
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After Clinton, Guiliani would be my second choice. Who cares if he married a second cousin, jeez, you sound like the prudes whom you mock for their homophobia. And “doomed from the start”? Man, for a guy who gloated about how Ned “House of Morgan werking man leftist” Lamont was going to kick Lieberman’s ass, you have a terrible record as a political observer.
Comment by Mark Nuckols — February 19, 2007 @ 8:44 pm