Urging an end to in-fighting and “low blows,” GOP Presidential candidate John McCain yesterday suggested the Republicans scrap all remaining primary campaigns and “decide who’s going to be our GOP nominee, and the next American president, by hot dog-eating contest.”

Rudolf Giuliani, lunching in a nearby McDonald’s restaurant, called the idea, “ridiculous.” “As I’ve said along - with no disrespect to his distinguished military service for this country – McCain is a crackpot. I don’t think a hot dog-eating contest is going to do us any good as a country in the long run; particularly after what happened in New York, and in this country, after 9-11,” Giuliani said.

Most Democrats however, quickly embraced the idea of a hot dog-eating contest.

Democratic Senator John Edwards, speaking at a fund-raising cook-out in Davisville, Carolina said, “Ah luv hawt dawgs. And ah think anyone of us, here on the Democratic side of the aisle, and even those members on the Republican side, should be willing to take a careful look at Senator McCain’s proposal to this issue.”