Benedict Giuliani By Jared Beck

Come on, Rudy Giuliani, everyone expected much more from you. As America’s Mayor, leading the country through the toughest times of this generation after the events of 9/11, you were the most loved political figure out there. You never turned your back on the city that raised you, and you dedicated yourself to reviving the metropolis we call New York City.

Which makes it hard to swallow when, while visiting Boston Tuesday for a campaign event, Giuliani announced that he would be rooting for New York’s archrival, the Boston Red Sox, to win this year’s World Series.

Et tú, Rudy?
The man born and raised in Brooklyn is rooting for the clam-chowder- loving, Beantown Bombers? Say it isn’t so.
Rudy Giuliani, the man with a plaque on his desk reading “Yankee Fan-In-Chief,” is rooting for the most despised enemy of the Yankees to win the world championship of baseball? The man who owns four World Series rings given to him by his beloved Yankees wants the Bloody Sox to win their second title in four years? The man born and raised in Brooklyn is rooting for the clam-chowder-loving, Beantown Bombers? Say it isn’t so.

But what should we really expect from a politician campaigning for president, running for the Republican nomination against Mitt Romney, the ex-governor of Massachusetts no less. But this kind of flip-flop? John Kerry couldn’t even pull this one off, and he was from Massachusetts.

I mean, pandering to voters is the most traditional tactic in all of politics. With the first Republican primary being held in New Hampshire, firmly within the borders of Red Sox Nation, Giuliani is obviously hoping to steal some New England votes from Romney.

But at what price, Rudy? New Yorkers are rightly upset that the supposed “number one fan” of the Yankees, the man who criticized Hillary Clinton for flipping teams from the Chicago Cubs to the Yankees whenever she moved to New York in hopes of becoming senator, says he supports their most bitter enemy. This is the equivalent of Buckeyes making out with Wolverines, Blue Devils getting frisky with Tar Heels, or Latrell Sprewell taking ex-coach P.J. Carlesimo out on a date. It just doesn’t happen.

Although he tried to play it off as just an American League fan rooting for the American League representative in the World Series, everyone knows what’s really happened here. Like Faust, Giuliani has sold his soul to the devil in hopes of winning an election. The heartless, monstrous devil that is Red Sox Nation.

Now, Rudy, you can never go home again.
Photo credit: Rudy Giuliani (edited) [http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/10/25/nyregion/25rudy-600.jpg]