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Rudy Giuliani’s endorsement of Mitt Romney breathtaking because of past - and present

By Glen Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 24, 2012

Rudy Giuliani endorsed Mitt Romney for president on Monday, a reversal of this 2008 campaign against the former Massachusetts governor. But his comments can’t be viewed just against the context of what he said four years ago; time and circumstances change of course, and Romney has to be compared to the candidates running now, not then. They are breathtaking, though, when considering the pointed criticism Giuliani leveled at Romney not in 2008 but just this past December, January, and February.

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