Rudy might get the sexually confused vote (snicker)
What else does his behaviour tell us? Dumping Donna Hanover was wrong, but she would be almost as big an embarrassment as First Lady as Ter-AY-zahh would have been.
He was pretty open with adultery on the verge of a Senatorial campaign.
He has attacked a bunch of regional Republiocans who were hardly hard right, but won despite him. Their allies will have long memories.
He won New York as an ex-Dem getting the nomination in a city with no recognizeable Republican party apparatus because Dinkins was so pathetic, that a gentle autumn wind would have knocked him out of office.
In short, the man has not won any elections larger than a municipality (albeit a big one) against a weak opponent. His short-lived Senate campaign was wretched (his cancer did complicate things, admittedly), but he is tone deaf on the political stuff. The second to last reason to vote for Giuliani is because he's electable... he hasn't won anything non-NYC. (In case your wondering, the last reason to vote for him is because of his morality.) He is perpetually crippled by bad judgement.
If perchance, he makes it on the ticket as pres or veep, I will not just not vote for him, but will work AGAINST him, as calls himself a Catholic, and in doing so is giving grave scandal to the Church. For the same reason, I was more worried about Kerry than either Clinton. I've got my beefs with W., but I will give him credit, he's collected the right enemies.
.......Rudy calls himself a Catholic, and in doing so is giving grave scandal to the Church. .....
BTW, Rudy was once a seminarian and has plenty of skeletons in his closet ....
In this Age of the Value Voter, among Rudy's huge liabilities is his personal life. Rudy's love life reads like a sordid tale from an X-rated paperback romance novel.
Rudy was first married to his cousin for 14 years, dumping her when he met Donna Hanover, then had the 14-year marriage annulled telling the Church he didn't "realize" his first wife was his second cousin.
Yeah, sure Rudy.
Mayor Rudy, while a married man and father of two, got involved with his third and present wife, escorting her publicly, and insisted his lover move into Gracie Mansion while he was still married to Donna.
Did we mention Rudy once endorsed a Democrat--Cuomo--over Pataki? And that Rudy looked the other way when his patronage appointee Russell Harding --Liberal Party's Ray Harding's son---was stealing $400,000 from the Housing Development Corp. and enjoying kiddie porn and gay vacations on the taxpayers dime?
In the Understatement of the Year, Sen Trent Lott recently warned that Guiliani's liberal views on abortion, civil unions and gay rights could make it "difficult" for him to win office as a Republican.
Trent forgot to add the Rudy would hunt down every gun, of every type, in every household in the USA and melt them down into scrap metal. Rudy doesn't need a gun. Like all rich liberals, he's got armed guards to protect him.
But I think the real vulnerability that Rudy has is his relationship with Bernard Kerik. Perhaps Rudy ought to tell voters how he plans to use failed HomeLandSec appointee Bernie Kerik's personal, business and political expertise to help him win public office (laughs uproariously).