Steve Forbes, President and Chief Executive Officer of Forbes and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine, has endorsed Rudy Giuliani for President of the United States and will serve as a National Campaign Co-Chair and Senior Policy Advisor, the Giuliani campaign announced...
"I am honored to support Rudy Giuliani for President," Steve Forbes said. "As Mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani showed how exercising fiscal discipline - including tax cuts - lowers deficits, spurs economic growth, and increases revenue. It is time the rest of the country benefit from a true fiscal conservative leader who gets real results."
"Steve and I share an economic vision that embraces supply-side economics, tax relief, and spending restraint," said Mayor Giuliani. "I look forward to working with Steve and am proud to have him as a member of our team."
Forbes' endorsement makes for a nice press release, but Forbes didn't exactly light up the Republican field eight years ago. What matters is Giuliani's record on economic and tax issues, not whether a wealthy magazine editor likes him or not.
The good news: Giuliani's website also offers a summary of Giuliani's record on economic issues - and it's a very strong record of fiscal conservatism.
In other Giuliani news, a top aide to South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has joined Giuliani's campaign. Jason Miller, former campaign manager and current deputy chief of staff to Gov. Sanford, will join the Giuliani campaign as a deputy communications director next month, the campaign announced.
Sanford is a governor very much in the Reagan Republican mold, and often touted as a possible future GOP presidential candidate, though he isn't running this year.
Update: More on Supply Side Rudy.
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