The New York Sun’s Candidate (It’s Not Rudy)

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Garance Franke-Ruta over at TAPPED makes a pretty compelling case for Rudy Giuliani, with his bevy of Likudnik-friendly advisers, being dubbed “the New York Sun candidate”—”culturally moderate, reasonably sophisticated, socially tolerant, and a far-right Zionist hawk on matters Middle Eastern.”

Problem is, that particular moniker already belongs to another man. Back in April, the Sun‘s editorialists explicitly named their dream candidate for ’08. Who was it? One hint—the president calls him “Big Time.”

—Justin Elliott