"I'd be willing to be that he is -- or will be -- considerably more conservative than his father is."
I'd be far ore willing to bet that he's a spoiled, pampered child striking out at Daddy because while he got the Corvette for graduation, he didn't get the pony for his 7th birthday.
The point was that if you wanted to bring this sort of thing into the debate, you'd have to be willing to be fair about it and recognize that even the Gipper had a rocky relationship with his kids, and it didn't hurt him, did it?
Reagan had a rotten relationship with his kids and he's a paragon of virtue; Giuliani has a rotten relationship with his kids and somehow that one more indication of his affinity for Satan.
Go figure.
Those are all valid points, but keep a couple of things in mind here. Rudy Giuliani's marital/family issues differ from those other examples in two key respects: 1) this is the internet age, in which news/information gets passed around faster than ever before; and 2) his marital/family problems were played out in a very public fashion in New York City -- and therefore got far more coverage in the media than they would have gotten if he had been the mayor of any other city.
Logic seems to be left at the door on all Rudy threads.