From the New York Daily News:
An Iowa senator is blaming the Big Apple's "lifestyle" and "personality" for Rudy Giuliani's failure to win over Middle America.
And New Yorkers are responding with plenty of personality and a couple of choice words: Shtick it!
Iowa's Chuck Grassley, a dour, 74-year-old Corn Belt Republican, said Wednesday that Giuliani's spectacular flameout stemmed from "that New York personality."
"The New York lifestyle hasn't gone over [in] some places. It seemed like the more people got acquainted with him, the less they liked him," he said.
Not content to leave it there, the Big Apple-baiting butthead from Butler County said that unlike Las Vegas, "Things you do in New York don't stay in New York."
Perhaps Grassley was referring to Giuliani's operatic personal life, complete with three wives, estranged children and appearances prancing around in drag...
...Ultra-New Yorker Curtis Sliwa showed in his comments why Grassley would be wise to think twice before insulting New Yorkers again.
"I've seen Grassley before," the Guardian Angels founder said. "He wears polyester, waffle-weave, flame-retardant pants that look like they survived the high waters.
"We, the suckers in New York, pay their FEMA bills. Grassley loves New York when it comes to subsidizing FEMA.
"He wants us to come there and drink ethanol, block the hogs and promise farm subsidies and pander ... What does he know? There are more pigs than people [in Iowa]. Iowa is not a reflection of America."
Quintessential New Yorker Jimmy Breslin, a longtime newspaper columnist and author of a new book, "The Good Rat: A True Story," dismissed Grassley as "another one of those low-IQ loudmouths."
"Grassley is a moron," he growled. "I don't believe it. There's an awful lot of people here. Millions and millions. Classify them? You can't. You just live with them and shut up. Calling names? It's childish."
Grassley is not only a moron, but he's one of the biggest "fake conservatives" out there.
He blames Bush for all the pork spending, but which Senate Committee did he head up for years? Oh yeah, that's right. It was the Finance Committee. His fellow Giuliani supporter Jim Nussle headed up the House Budget Committee during the deficit years. Where did earmark spending have to filter through before it got to Bush? Give me a fucking break, Grassley.
What else does Grassley do? He wants to increase taxes for Social Security, he's basically for amnesty of criminal illegal aliens again, he wants illegals working with fake Social Security numbers, he blames "big oil" for people not buying E-85 ethanol, he's had 20 years to fix the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) problem but has done jack shit, and his "bankruptcy reform" has been a colossal failure.
Not only that, but in my eyes he's a criminal who should be arrested for theft and fraud for the $3 million in missing Porkforest money.
What the fuck is the matter with you Republicans in Iowa? If the fiscal and social conservatives in Iowa had any balls, they would be occupying his offices in protest and getting arrested. You're all a bunch of wimpy-ass, Nelson Rockefeller wing, go along/get along, McCain-iac, "bi-partisan" RINOs. Maybe you deserve Chuck Grassley. Keep re-electing him and Harkin forever. What's the difference between the two? There really isn't much.
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