Posted on 01/28/2007 8:24:22 AM PST by Spiff
Giuliani touts experience, but personal life may be an issue
BY CRAIG GORDON
Newsday Washington Bureau
January 28, 2007
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Rudolph Giuliani argued yesterday that his record of cutting taxes, improving security and guiding New York through 9/11 are proof that he could do the same as president - offering his strongest signal yet that he's serious about a White House bid.
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Giuliani is trying to bat down questions from top Republicans about whether his White House ambitions are a popularity-fueled dalliance or something more serious. His speech laid out a point-by-point rationale for his possible candidacy, seeking to portray himself as a tested leader for dangerous times in the mold of Ronald Reagan.
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He also appeared intent on quieting questions about his marital history by giving wife Judith Nathan an unusually high-profile role here. She barely left his side in public, and he called her a "partner" whom he leaned on for everything from getting through 9/11 and prostate cancer to understanding the science behind possible anthrax attacks.
Giuliani didn't mention that when Nathan helped him after his cancer diagnosis in spring 2000, he was, in fact, still married to Donna Hanover, and that the revelation of his illness came amid the messy public breakup of his second marriage.
In the end, Giuliani's two-day visit here encapsulated the promise and challenge of his possible candidacy.
On one hand, his name recognition and tough-guy image in New York, before and after 9/11, helped him draw large and enthusiastic crowds on this visit. But even some who were eager to see him were blunt in saying his personal history and liberal social stances could prove a serious, perhaps insurmountable obstacle to winning their votes.
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You are one of the spammiest spammers in what has become spamville.
I resent that.
Julieannie ain't no liberal.
Julieannie's a cheap hustler.
BOO I am divorced!
Three times?
What issues ARE 'liberal' in your mind?
Man oh man, you smoked ole Liz out. She's a conservative and trols sites like that for unsubstantiated human excrement like that article!
Hey Liz the game is up, your no conservative your a Hillary plant, LOL!
Yeah...
RIIIIiiiiiight.
I lost count! sarc/
But its actually none of you business!
I lost count! sarc/
But its actually none of you business!
That's ALL this liberal northeast-corridor RINO has going for him.
If you don't stop making fun of his hair I am going to have him come and take your guns away.
I am not making fun of his HAIR.
I am making fun of his LACK of hair, and his speech impediment, and his nervous tick, but MOST OF ALL...
His RIDICULOUSLY LIBERAL (for a so-called Republican) beliefs and positions.
It's going to be tough for campaign journalists covering a year of this action vacuum. Sportswriters at least have things that matter to somebody happening almost every day. Even Wall Street pandits have some economic theory to flavor their insipid daily happenings.
Has anyone asked Donna Ann Kofnovec (aka Donna Hanover) why her first husband Stanley Hanover divorced her?
"The Congress could pass very restrictive gun control laws. President Giuliani would firmly veto them".
"Ask Kim Philby that question."
LOL!
...are, in reality, more like this fella...
Giuliani had his first (childless) marriage annulled, supposedly because he discovered that they were second cousins instead of third cousins!
Giuliani had discovered Donna Hanover.
Giuliani married Hanover, an actress and television personality who became Donna Giuliani helped him get elected mayor and became the mother of his children, Andrew and Caroline.
Still not content, Giuliani became involved with an attractive press aide, prompting Donna Giuliani to resume the use of her maiden name.
Then Giuliani became involved with his latest wife, Judi Nathan, an increasingly public affair that prompted Ms. Hanover to appeal to the Cardinal to help preserve her marriage.
Unsuccessfully.
Ultimately, Giuliani moved out of the Mayor's residence, Gracie Mansion, and moved in with a gay male couple until his divorce from Ms. Hanover was final.
Then he promptly married Nathan, in Gracie Mansion, with his successor, Mayor Bloomberg, performing the civil ceremony.
Incidentally, Gracie Mansion was the one place that Ms. Hanover fought to keep Ms. Nathan from visiting while she and Giuliani were still married.
An appeals court ultimately upheld an order barring Ms. Nathan from Gracie Mansion in October 2001, when Hanover was still living there with Andrew and Caroline.
My question is, who's out there that's better than Giuliani, who's a social and free-market conservative, preferably a Christian? If Giuliani's the best we've got, what do we do? It it's enough to bash they guy(s) who aim to run. We've got to have viable alternatives or stand by the best we've got until we get someone better.
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