Giuliani hit This Week yesterday in an impressive show of "look at me, I'm nonchalant"-itude, but reading between the lines, the campaign's in full-on tailspin. For example, they appear to have fired all of their professional makeup artists, and replaced them with the guy who runs the face painting booth at the Dade County Fair:


They also chose to perch the candidate in front of a crowd of slack-jawed, dull-eyed supporters (many of whom were all-too-obviously being reminded every four or five seconds that they're supposed to smile broadly), a strategy that wavered between "distracting" and "embarrassing" (mostly embarrassing).

Official Purple State prediction: fourth place in Florida, campaign officially dissolved by Feb. 1.