Welcoming his first guest on his Tuesday Hardball program to discuss the rise of Donald Trump and the "Fall of the House of Bush" and other establishment Republicans, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews gushed over former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as the last of a dying breed of "moderate" "cosmopolitan" pro-choice East Coast Republicans.
This is, of course, hardly the first time Matthews has hailed the moribund East Coast liberal wing of the GOP, but I thought it worthwhile to note for the record here:
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Oct. 20, 2015CHRIS MATTHEWS: Rudy Giuliani is the former mayor of New York. Rudy, Mayor, thank you so much for coming on because you were my kind of Republican: stalwart, East Coast, pro-choice. You lived with gay roommates, not that you were gay, by any means, but the whole thing about you is cosmopolitan, big city.
I was just up at Pakatako Hills (sp?) the old Rockefeller estate this week and I was thinking, as a visitor up there, as a tourist, really, and I kept thinking, what happened to the Republican Party that had room for Bill Scranton, for the governor of Pennsylvania, for Christie Whitman of New Jersey, for Nelson Rockefeller, for John Lindsay?
And now the party seems to be coming literally apart, where all the establishment candidates are getting, you know, nothing. Verkakte, as we say in New York. Verkakte. Nothing. And they're getting nothing. Bush is down to eight, and people are saying, half the party is saying, I can't even imagine voting for Bush. What happened to the Grand Old Party?
