Just when he was starting to rebuild some momentum on fooling the GOP base, “America’s mayor” brick-spat this gaffe:

Do I have any plans on killing McCain Feingold? (laughter) Gee, why don’t you ask Senator McCain that? He knows more about McCain-Feingold… Let me tell you a few things. This is not personal at all, because I happen to be a very big admirer of Senator McCain. And I can tell you quite honestly that if I weren’t running for president, I would be here supporting him. In fact, if for some reason I made a decision not to run, he’d be my candidate. I really admire the man tremendously.

Anybody who’s surprised by this, stand on your head.  J-Ger is having nightmare (to me) visions of a Giuliani-McCain ticket if the former hornswaggles his way to the nomination.  This would be the most left-leaning GOP duo since Nixon-Agnew, and would, between the two of them, be on the wrong side of federal judge selection, abortion, free speech, gay rights, environmentalism, tax policy, war policy (i.e. jihadi prisoner interrogation) and immigration.

I rather doubt that McCain would settle for the veepancy, and I think Rudy would be shrewder than to thumb in the eye the base that just handed him the Party standard.  But then I would have thought him more discrete than to publicly flaunt such personal RINO sentiments, too.