Rudy Guiliani has prostrate cancer

[Brad De Long]

>He just announced it this morning, immediately upon learning it last
>night.  Personally, judging from his complete indifference to campaigning
>upstate, I think he's going to use this as the unimpeachable reason he's
>been looking for to pull out of the Senate race.  And then hope that,
>after a full recovery (the disease is reportedly in a very, very early
>stage), he can run for the governorship in four years, which is the job he
>really wants.  Someone asserted recently that he can legally bank that 18
>million dollars he's collected -- all of it gathered before he was a
>declared candidate -- and use it to run for governor.
>
>So Hillary wins by default?  And perhaps also a good opportunity for left
>wing third parties, who won't have to defend themselves as hard against
>the charge of letting in the right.
>
>Michael

Well if it's in a very, very early stage there's no problem: he just 
starts taking his estrogen shots and lives for decades and decades...

Brad DeLong