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By Kyle Cheney

11/12/14 5:59 PM EST

Updated 11/12/14 6:58 PM EST

Rudy Giuliani, the tough-talking former New York City mayor, has some advice for Republicans who want to beat Hillary Clinton in 2016: Dont be mean.

The wrong way is to be too aggressive, and be too mean, and to ever get personal, he said Wednesday in an interview with POLITICO. The right way to do it is on policy and on true contribution.

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In a wide-ranging, blunt and occasionally expletive-laden interview, Giuliani whose own 2008 bid for the White House fizzled quickly said Clintons central vulnerability will be what her allies have long argued is a strength: her policy rsum. He compared President Barack Obamas political charisma to Ronald Reagans and had a few choice words for former ally Charlie Crist.

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But he reserved his sharpest comments for Clinton, who represented New York in the Senate toward the end of Giulianis second term at City Hall and who has yet to announce whether shell make a second run for the White House.

Shes a candidate who, with her baggage, can be beaten by the right candidate who handles it the right way and by the right campaign who handles it the right way, he said.

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