Political truth number 718: Your friend isn't always your friend's friend.
As noted here earlier, Rep. Pete King (R-Seaford) is standing loyally with his man in the presidential race, Rudy Giuliani. But former Mayor Ed Koch, who made campaign commercials for King in 2006, also wrote a nasty book about Giuliani called 'Nasty Man' and issued his definitive prediction today that the man who investigated corruption in the Koch administration will lose Florida, and the GOP nomination.
In his latest dispatch, flagged by Newsday's alert Bill Murphy, Koch says: "Rudy’s stated belief was and is that Florida voters will save him. Who in Florida? The New Yorkers who have emigrated there to spend the balance of their lives in sunny, winterless Florida? Those people -- predominately elderly New York Jews, with whom Rudy did well as mayor -- are overwhelmingly registered Democrats. I found that out myself when I campaigned in 2004 for President George W. Bush...."
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"....whom I said was the only candidate who understood the threat of international Islamic terrorism and was willing to stand up to it.."
Koch also writes: "I was asking them to desert Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an act for which she demanded that the crowd figuratively stone me. My point? Those New York Jews whom Rudy is counting on are registered Democrats and will not be voting for him in Florida. I predict that Rudy’s presidential run will end on January 29th, and those like myself who believe he is a nasty man, will breath easier."
Koch, still registered as a Democrat, supports Hillary Clinton for president.