Rudy Giuliani Trolling For Votes on Rivals.com

We're two years out from the next Presidential election, but already one of the lead candidates is hitting the red state sports scene hard for votes: Rudy Giuliani. See the screen capture below - a Guiliani for President ad placed prominently on the Rivals.com college football website.



Nice.

This is smart and annoying at the same time. Guiliani must first defeat several other big time Republicans in the various primaries if he is to have a shot at being President.. Seeing as how he hails from deep blue New York, a concerted effort must be made to bridge the gap between himself and the red, southern-ish party base. Enter the Rivals.com ad.

Like I said, smart. Hey, look at me, I'm Rudy and I like football! So long as he doesn't pretend he's part of the Kennedy clan playing football with the family and get photographed having the football attack him (don't fight the ball!) like uh, one John Kerry, this will work out well.

Yet ... it's also annoying. The campaigns just keep getting earlier and earlier and now the pandering extends not only to mailers, phone calls, television ads and radio ads, but also our favorite internet sports sites that are supposed to be our diversions from the politicians. Oy.