Is Rudy Insane or just stupid?

Josh Marshall runs down the four horsemen of Rudy's brain trust for foreign policy.



If you wanted to pick a candidate that actually represents a far stupider approach than the current White House's to the challenges that face the United States in 2008, you couldn't do much better than Giuliani. He is truly the heir to the anti-intellectual legacy of the current administration, and like Bush, stands for symbol over substance. He has been repudiated on his signal achievement, his actions in the aftermath of 9/11, and has been called out as a grandstander who actually failed in his efforts to prepare the first responders who he uses as props for his claim to legitimacy. He has surrounded himself with hacks like Bernie Kerick, and displays a shocking inappropriateness in his personal life and on the campaign trail. His choice of a bloodthirsty old ghoul like Norman Podhoretz as a foreign policy adviser displays a stunning example that he is either dangerously militaristic or profoundly ignorant.

It really boggles the mind that the Republican party can't come up with anyone less batshit insane to carry their flag in the next election, but unfortunately, that is another legacy of the failed Presidency of the Idiot Prince.

UPDATE: The Washington Monthly has an article by Rachel Morris that really spells the whole thing out.

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