Giuliani Visits Marathon Memorial, Campaigns With Gomez

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani praised U.S. Senate Republican nominee Gabriel Gomez in Boston Thursday as a man who's demonstrated "a willingness to give his life for his country."

Giuliani campaigned with Gomez in Back Bay as the two spoke at a press conference shortly after visiting the Copley Square memorial for the Boston Marathon bombings.

"This is a man of great accomplishment and this is exactly what we need in Washington right now," said Giuliani of Gomez, the Cohasset businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL.

"The mayor knows just want kind of a dangerous world we live in," Gomez said, referring to Giuliani's experience as mayor during the 9/11 attacks. 

Gomez and Giuliani criticized the Democratic nominee, Malden Congressman Edward Markey for his many years in Washington, having served since his election in 1976.

"It's time we send somebody down there that's going to serve the people as opposed to serving his party and politics, like he's done the last 37 years," said Gomez of Markey.

Giuliani said Markey has been "captured by one ideology, one extremely partisan version of that ideology" and said he's further left in his politics than either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.

He hammered Markey on national security, in particular his position on releasing enemy combatants from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and bringing them to the U.S.

"Maybe he should offer to put them in his house," Giuliani said. "It's absolutely ridiculous that he's safe for national security."

On the news that Obama will be campaigning for Markey in Boston next week, Gomez said he thinks Markey "must be feeling some extreme heat" in the race to bring in the president.

Gomez and Markey will square off for the seat formerly occupied by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry June 25.