Did 9/11 references destroy Rudy Giuliani chances for President?

Or did he just have a poor strategy?

Public Comments

1. He had a poor strategy.
2. Rudy wasn't that great a mayor.
3. No, he took to long to join the race, what was he thinking? He lost momentum, when he decided to join much later, McCain had already jumped way ahead of him.
4. I'd say sitting out the first 10 primaries was a pretty dumb strategy. "Casey at the Bat" anyone?
5. I don't think his chances were necessarily destroyed by the 9/11 references, but I don't think they helped. What destroyed his chances are his personal life, which don't exactly coincide with conservative views. (married 3 times, moving his now-wife, then girlfriend into the Mayor's mansion while his wife and kids were living there, church refusing him communion) and his less than conservative views in many areas.
6. Rudy's a good guy, but unfortunately has way too much going against him as far as skeletons... old mafia ties, messy divorce, etc.
7. Where to start? Guiliani is a socially liberal Republican with a checkered personal history. It didn't wash with the very conservative primary voters. He also didn't enter the race until late, assuming he would just be buoyed along the current of some 9/11 fever. It didn't work.
8. He just went too far to the left.
9. No, he bypassed some primaries which he should have entered and it put him in the background.
10. Giuliani for president? Come on, it was doomed from the get go, the man is a stooge.
11. Joe Biden put it best... Rudy Guilliani= Noun, verb, 9/11.
12. He was too liberal to call himself a republican.