We’re hearing this morning that as his campaign tanks, Rudy’s today falling back for the last Hail Mary pass, announcing a new plan to basically go to war with everyone, in order to salvage his flailing campaign. And that means it’s important to game out the full implications of Rudy’s now probable, eventual ignominious withdrawal from the race.
You’d think that a post-campaign Rudy could just go back to cutting more sweetheart business deals with various tycoons, crooks and bad actors as well as chasing more skirts. But failure doesn’t score pricey consulting contracts or babes.
So there’s a decent chance a post-presidential campaign flop Rudy would have to settle for actual monogamy from here on out. Secondly, what about the fate of Giuliani Partners?
Whatever else you can say about Rudy, had he not tried to exploit 9/11 to build a third career as a presidential candidate, I have little doubt that the halo of 9/11 would have hovered over his head for the rest of his life and provided him a lifetime of fat residuals in the form of consulting work for Giuliani Partners. But what about now? What does Rudy now have to offer Gulf sheiks or Chinese princelings that they can’t get from a real consultancy? And if you’re a pharmaceutical company in trouble for pushing narcotics, is Rudy your guy?
