"I fail to see what Uncle Leo and Daddy Harry have to do with Rudy today."
Lots of folks believe that apples don't fall far from the tree. Certainly, ones parents shape a child's perceptions of the world. According to others, his extended family harbored a junkie, a crooked cop and a murky mob wing. I'm not saying that he would follow in his father's footsteps, merely that the family that raised him had little in common with the family of your typical rural evangelical.
This "extended family" stuff brings to mind the comments made against Geraldine Ferraro (remember that VP candidate) and her husband's business. These criticisms distressingly seem to pop up against Italo-American candidates.
Ronald Reagan's father was a drunk and a complete loser. Would you like to talk about THAT family and THAT apple?
Dear FreeInWV,
"Lots of folks believe that apples don't fall far from the tree."
I'm not "lots of folks." The statement is insulting.
My father, born an Italian-American in Brooklyn in the 1920s, had plenty of relatives - close relatives - in organized crime. By saying what you say about Mr. Giuliani, you dishonor my father, who snuck into the armed forces during WWII (he was 4F), who served honorably aboard troop ships under fire in the Pacific Theater, who earned a college degree at night while supporting a stay-at-home wife and four children, who spent nearly four decades in industry and DOD, working on defense projects until his retirement, and who has continued service to his nation even in his retirement.
I wouldn't vote for Mr. Giuliani on a bet.
But there are plenty, PLENTY of valid conservative complaints with which to challenge his candidacy.
This isn't one of them.
It's nothing but a smear.
sitetest
That is a terrible view of life you have. No room for a belief in the perfectability of man? We all enter this world with a bent toward sin as we all come from Adam, the sinner-in-chief, but God gave us a way out and many of us try to take it. Maybe Rudy took the way out? Looks to me like he did.