Rudy Giuliani posed this week as the poster child of Republican desperation.
In a party that has no new ideas beyond repealing the Affordable Care Act for the 6o-somethingth time and holding other Obama initiatives hostage with funding blackmail, the GOP is resorting again to character assassination.
"I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America," the former mayor of New York City said while speaking to a group of conservatives at a Manhattan dinner for presidential hopeful and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
"He doesn't love you. And he doesn't love me. He wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country," said Giuliani, himself a failed onetime presidential candidate.
Apparently Giuliani only listens to Fox News soundbites. Anyone who follows real news knows the first segment of any address the president makes is laden with comments about how wonderful and exceptional America is.
Exceptional also was a description Guiliani himself used when he made his atrocious comment and dangled his campaign support in front of Scott Walker:
"[W]ith all our flaws we're the most exceptional country in the world. I'm looking for a presidential candidate who can express that, do that and carry it out," Guiliani said. "And if it's you Scott, I'll endorse you ... and if it's somebody else, I'll support somebody else."
Walker wobbled -- at least with a microphone nearby. The next day he told CNBC: "The mayor can speak for himself. I'm not going to comment on what the president thinks or not, he can speak for himself as well. I can tell you I love this country."
The GOP can't create any better ideas to further our country, but it sure can spin out character assassination.