Rudy Giuliani's Vulnerabilities

The Smoking Gun ^ | FEBRUARY 12

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Secret study cited "weirdness factor" among candidate weaknesses FEBRUARY 12--As he campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination, Rudolph Giuliani will have to contend with political and personal baggage unknown to prospective supporters whose knowledge of the former New York mayor is limited to his post-September 11 exploits. So, in a bid to educate the electorate, we're offering excerpts from a remarkable "vulnerability study" that was commissioned by Giuliani's campaign prior to his successful 1993 City Hall run. The confidential 450-page report, authored by Giuliani's research director and another aide, was the campaign's attempt to identify possible lines of attack against Giuliani and prepare the candidate and his staff to counter "the kinds of no-holes-barred assault" expected in a general election rematch with Democratic incumbent David Dinkins. As he tried to win election in an overwhelmingly Democratic city, Giuliani needed "inoculating against" the "Reagan Republican moniker," the vulnerability study reported. "The Giuliani campaign should emphasize its candidate's independence from traditional national Republican policies." The final six words of that sentence are underlined in the study. Additionally, the Giuliani report noted that the candidate needed to make it clear to voters that he was "pretty good on most issues of concern to gay and lesbian New Yorkers" and was pro-choice and supported public funding for abortion. "He will continue city funding for abortions at city hospitals. Nothing more, nothing less." Giuliani's stance on these issues, of course, may leave him vulnerable today with an entirely different electorate. The campaign study was obtained by The Village Voice's Wayne Barrett in the course of preparing "Rudy!," an investigative biography of Giuliani. In its preface, the study notes that it is "tough and hard-hitting. It pulls no punches." Perhaps that is why Giuliani, as Barrett reported, ordered copies of the vulnerability study destroyed shortly after

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[.. Rudy Giuliani's Vulnerabilities ..]

Those are UNDER the dress he's wearing at the time..
In one of his alter personalitys.. ur!.. personas..

[TitansAFC]

---"He will continue city funding for abortions at city hospitals. Nothing more, nothing less."---

And another reason he'd be a disaster for the Conservative movement....

and another reason...

and another reason...

and another reason...

[DocH]

As Mr. Burns would say...

EXxxx...CELLENT.

More and more of the UGLY TRUTH needs to come out about the left-wing-media-annointed LIBERAL RINOs, BEFORE we're stuck with the bastards in the general election.

[flashbunny]

"In many ways Rudy Giuliani is a political contradiction...He doesn't really fit with the Republicans. Too liberal. Giuliani has troubles with the Democrats, too."

He's not too liberal for the liberal republicans on this board though!

[MichiganConservative]

...needs to come out about the left-wing-media-annointed...

Don't you know that the media knows more than we do? They're far superior in intelligence and compassion. We should just join the group-think and do what we are told is best by people who tell us they are superior to us.

[saganite]

I wouldn't call them liberal republicans but I would call them win at any cost republicans.

[Fierce Allegiance]

I wouldn't call them liberal republicans

I wouldn't either. They are dem plants, shilling for hillary.

[TitansAFC]

Wow.

He really did use connections to dodge the draft; I thought it was just a smear. He really did try everything to avoid serving his country in the military. Unbelievable.

All the stuff we lambasted Clinton and Gore for - draft dodging and special treatment - applies to Rudy as well.

I cannot see any defense for this.

[ex-snook]

Let's look at Rudy's best point - he never performed an abortion.

[MichiganConservative]

I cannot see any defense for this.

Obviously you have not heard that he is _electable_.

[beltfed308]

I cannot see any defense for this.

He was in the AF ROTC and had a bad ear. But he really wanted to fly./s

[kellynch]

Nobody EVER called me a liberal until I started posting here.

In-freaking-credible.

[JRochelle]

Or had and abortion! Don't forget that plus!

[TitansAFC]

---"I cannot see any defense for this.
Obviously you have not heard that he is _electable_."---

Seriously, though, this really stinks. Where much of my family came from, this is treachery - and it sure was to a lot of folks when Clinton and Gore pulled this crap.

Tried everything to get out of military service, and when he couldn't get out of it got a judge to write a referral. And now the letter is missing.

This stinks so bad it makes me sick.

[Coldwater Creek]

Who knows what Rudy has done in some back alley room!

[Tribune7]

Rudy showing his vulnerable side.

[flashbunny]

well if you hold liberal positions, you may find a reason that that happens.

[kellynch]

I'm not a liberal. I am, however, pragmatic rather than an idealogue.

[MichiganConservative]

Seriously, though, this really stinks.

I agree. It wouldn't surprise me if it is the case that the media know this about him and, if he becomes the nominee, use it against him. The sheeple on this board that just blindly follow the media darlings really need to stop and think about just who's side the media is really on and why someone is a media darling. If it ends up being Rudy vs. Dem X, the media will turn on him fast.