The point about the pictures of him in drag, and please, consider this carefully, is that that image will follow him along the campaign trail.
It will not be explained, but even if it is, the idea of America's President, Leader of thr free world, etc. in drag will hardly lend credibility to America as the world's superpower.
In many ways the President represents us all whether we agree with his policies or not.
At a minimum, we want an imposing figure of state, confident in bearing, firm in resolve, a picture, nay, an icon of strength who can, when need be, negotiate from strength with leaders of repressive, brutal, and mysoginistic cultures and societies worldwide.
Need I say what the pictures would do to that image? How that would affect the negotiations? Either Rudy would be forced to be far more forceful in order to establish his bonafides than would normally be necessary--an invitation to unnecessary armed confrontation--or would be perceived as no threat and not taken seriously in instances which were not worth going to war over.
Even if he won the election, (in spite of those pictures) those images would have far reaching connotations for not just the Office of the President, but the nation as a whole--connotations which would doubtless reflect upon our entire culture.
In some small circles a grown man dressing as a woman is seen as "brave", in most the effect on the perception of masculinity is the opposite.
It is seen as something guys might have done back when on Halloween, not as an adult, and not someone who would be President.
Rudy is the most forceful candidate in the race.
He has a long history of standing up to the race hustlers, the arab sheiks, the arafats of this world.
He took down the mob, ran the pornographers out of family neighborhoods in NYC, got Times Square from a sewer to a jewel, visited by people from all over the world.
He took on the so called artists who would put elephant dung on a sculpture of Madonna.
And you’re ‘worried’ that he’d have to be more forceful.
Give me a break. You are totally disingenuous, and I suspect you know it.