Judging from the annoyed reaction this was almost the equivalent of opening a Boston Red Sox store across the street from Yankee Stadium.

After a recent column taking note of what a lousy presidential candidate he turned out to be, a number of Rudy Giuliani supporters weighed in, greatly annoyed over being reminded what a lousy presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani turned out to be.

I heard form people who praised his leadership as mayor of New York on 9/11, just as I did in the column.

And I heard from people who insisted he was more than qualified to lead the nation because of his crime-fighting record, yada, yada, yada.

As well some readers were offended that I took note of his rather strange post-comb-over hair style.

Touchy, touchy, touchy.

But here is what pretty much ended all the e-mail whining.

Rudy Giuliani spent $50 million on his campaign and received just one - that’s ONE - delegate. And if that doesn’t qualify the mayor as one of the worst presidential candidates in moder history, I’m hard pressed to find a better example. Well wait, it get’s even worse.

And oh yes, there’s this too, if you’re still thinking on pursuing the fool’s errand in defense of Giuliani’s candidacy. How truly bad, awful, horrible and mismanaged was Rudy’s White House effort?

At one point not all that long ago Rudy Giuliani led all national polls for the presidency. By the time he folded up his campaign, that crazy nut, Ron Paul, R-Black Helicopters, had more delegates with six.

Any candidate this incompetent certainly never deserved any serious consideration for the presidency.

And that - is exactly what happened.