Giuliani compares Bush to Winston Churchill

It looks like someone else is in a state of denial.

Yesterday, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani set up an exploratory committee for a possible run at the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. Arizona Senator John McCain made a similar announcement over the weekend. It is likely that Bill Frist, Mitt Romney, George Pataki and Mike Huckabee will do the same in the coming weeks.

As of now, if he does indeed run, Giuliani will try to gain Republican support by cuddling up to President Bush. The former New York Mayor defended George W. Bush yesterday, even comparing the recent anti-Bush sentiment to the kind that the late Winston Churchill received years ago:

"It doesn't matter what the media does to ridicule him or misinterpret him or defeat him. They ridiculed Winston Churchill. They belittled Ronald Reagan. But like President Bush, they were optimists. Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present, and it's set on a future of real peace and security," Giuliani said.

I will give Giuliani one thing: It is easy to misinterpret a guy who has trouble finishing a sentence. But it sure isn't easy to misinterpret policies that have hurt working families in this country. That was why Bush and his party got a vote of 'no confidence' one week ago.

Really though, I can understand quite well why Giuliani would want to cozy up to Bush when he runs for president. The two have the same mentality when it comes to invoking 9/11 for the moral high ground on everything. In other words, expect the campaign to turn into an "I was there and you weren't" sort of thing.

-The Blue State