Rudy Thinks It Will Be Clinton-Obama Too

The other day Newt Gingrich predicted a Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama Dem ticket in '08, and now Rudy Giuliani has joined the chorus:

Lambasting Democrats for having "embraced defeat" in Iraq, Rudy Giuliani is declaring himself the only Republican who will keep America on the offensive against Islamism and stop Hillary Clinton capturing the White House in 2008.

The former New York mayor, still lauded in the American heartlands for his performance after the September 11 attacks, told The Daily Telegraph that he believed Mrs Clinton would choose Barack Obama as her running mate.

Rudy Giuliani on a campaign stop in Iowa

"I think it's going to be a Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama ticket," he said during a campaign stop at Sparky's One Stop, a petrol station in the village of Stanhope (population 488), on a sweltering day in rural Iowa.

"They will run together because Barack Obama has had such a good showing and it's going to be very hard for her to deny him a place on the ticket."

A few days ago I think I would have agreed with Rudy and Newt, but now I'm not so sure. Obama's wanderings in search of a coherent foreign policy has hurt him with the voters (as evidenced by his 22 point polling deficit), and although I'm not sure he's damaged goods as yet, he's certainly not as attractive a candidate as he was. He could actually end up being a net drain on the ticket in the general election unless he starts to sound a lot more sophisticated in his foreign policy views.