Dear Dark Skies,
"Scumbag?"
Yeah, scumbag.
Mr. Giuliani is a man of low personal morals.
I'm not saying I won't vote for folks who aren't saints. That Mr. Giuliani is a scumbag is not what will prevent me from voting for him. Nonetheless, a man who ditches two wives, squires his young chippie #3 all around town, even in front of his own children in his own home, before he's divorced from their mother, is a scumbag.
Mr. Giuliani has the morals of an alley cat.
I don't like his political morality, either, filled as it is with support for any and all abortions as well as the pro-homosexual agenda. Although I don't view it as a moral issue, I'm not terribly keen on his anti-gun rights views, either.
"... but you'll forgive me if I choose a higher standards for arguments about the Presidency of our precious country."
Heck, I called Bill Clinton a whole lot worse in the nearly nine years I've been here at Free Republic, I don't see why I should pull punches now. However, even Mr. Clinton understood that having sex with Monica was immoral, and he at least had the decency to try to hide his immorality from public view. Mr. Clinton was ashamed of himself. Mr. Giuliani wasn't. The comparison doesn't reflect well on Mr. Giuliani. Very sad.
You talk about standards of discussions about the presidency. The standards problem here isn't intrinsic to our discussion but rather to the low morality of some of the men we must discuss for the office. That we have to consider folks with loose morals for the presidency is sad, but it's how it is.
sitetest
I'll take the immoral Churchill over the moral Hitler any day of the week.