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Giuliani Estranged From His Children
CBS News ^ | 3/5/2007 | staff

Posted on 03/05/2007 7:05:44 PM PST by George W. Bush

Updated:2007-03-05 14:55:26

Giuliani Estranged From His Children

Some Say Personal Problems May Hurt Prospects

CBS News


NEW YORK (March 5) -- It doesn't look like Rudy Giuliani's two children will have a role in his presidential campaign. According to press reports, the GOP frontrunner's third marriage has alienated his son, Andrew, 21, and daughter, Caroline, 18, from their father.



Giuliani's 21-year-old son, Andrew, told the New York Times that he would be too busy working on his golf game to participate in his father's presidential campaign.

"There's obviously a little problem that exists between me and his wife," the younger Giuliani told the newspaper. "And we're trying to figure that out. But as of right now it's not working as well as we would like."

Giuliani's marriage to his third wife, Judith Nathan, followed his divorce from Donna Hanover, the mother of Andrew and Caroline.

In 2000, Giuliani announced during a live TV interview that he planned to divorce Hanover. She responded by publicly accusing Giuliani of adultery.

Caroline Giuliani has not spoken publicly, but the Times and New York's tabloid newspapers reported that she was also alienated from her father as a result of his marriage to Nathan.

The New York Daily News reported that Giuliani rarely spends time with his children and that he had failed to attend many important events in their lives, including Andrew's golf tournaments and Caroline's school plays.

Andrew Giuliani is a sophomore at Duke and a member of the school's golf team. Caroline attends a private Catholic school in Manhattan. She will attend Harvard University in the fall. Giuliani has had no comment on his relationship with his children.

Giuliani holds a huge lead in the polls over GOP presidential rival John McCain, but some political analysts believe the former New York Mayor's estrangement from his children and other personal problems is bound to inflict political damage.

Political analyst Charles Cook told Newsday that the latest twist would hurt Giuliani with the GOP's conservative voters.

"This is just going to be one of a thousand cuts," Cook told the newspaper. "This will just sort of fit into a whole constellation of issues that work against someone winning a conservative party's nomination, a party that thinks of itself as a pro-family party. This just makes it really hard."


Copyright 2006, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.



TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: giuliani; hitpiece; mediabias; nobetterthanlibs
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Cook rarely makes such remarks. We'll see how the polls turn.
1 posted on 03/05/2007 7:05:48 PM PST by George W. Bush
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To: George W. Bush

Rudys personal life is really biting him in the ass.


2 posted on 03/05/2007 7:07:10 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: EternalVigilance; Fierce Allegiance; Reagan Man; Spiff; NapkinUser

another mini ping.

Love that picture!


3 posted on 03/05/2007 7:07:37 PM PST by flashbunny (<--- Free Anti-Rino graphics! See Rudy the Rino get exposed as a liberal with his own words!)
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To: Joan Wilder

No traction, huh?


4 posted on 03/05/2007 7:07:45 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance (RINO = Rudy Is Not Ours! Keep scrubbing, Rudy supporters, the blood won't come off.)
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...and SeeBS has the fake memo to prove it!


5 posted on 03/05/2007 7:08:38 PM PST by clintonh8r (Locating, closing with, and destroying the enemy since 1946.)
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To: flashbunny

Thanks for the ping. I managed a post 8 seconds after you sent it. :)


6 posted on 03/05/2007 7:08:53 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance (RINO = Rudy Is Not Ours! Keep scrubbing, Rudy supporters, the blood won't come off.)
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To: George W. Bush

I like Charlie Cook but I'm not sure it does....Ronald Reagan was totally dismissed by his daughter Patti Davis and actually wrote a book bashing some of the family.. and Reagan actually was not on speaking terms with Michael, his most ardent supporter, for awhile.....if anything, his 3 marriages would be a bigger hurdle....


7 posted on 03/05/2007 7:09:08 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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CBS News...

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8 posted on 03/05/2007 7:09:18 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: George W. Bush

And this disqualifies him from being President?

How close was Ron Reagan Jr (the dancer) to his dad?


9 posted on 03/05/2007 7:10:05 PM PST by joonbug
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To: George W. Bush

He can't get a peace accord with his own children but surely he can get one in the Middle East.


10 posted on 03/05/2007 7:10:38 PM PST by msnimje (If we have a choice of two PRO ABORTION candidates, this country is doomed.)
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To: George W. Bush

I'm not a Rudy fan, but this is really just a hit piece.


11 posted on 03/05/2007 7:11:26 PM PST by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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["Giuliani's 21-year-old son, Andrew, told the New York Times that he would be too busy working on his golf game to participate in his father's presidential campaign."]

There's a ringing endoresement! Ouch! But then again, Reagan's kids turned out to be spoiled nutballs...

12 posted on 03/05/2007 7:11:35 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Veritas. Gravitas. Ohmygas.)
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To: George W. Bush

Ever since the polls showing Rudy beating Hillary came out the Clinton attach machinery has been in high gear. Even some conservatives are lapping up this spittle.


13 posted on 03/05/2007 7:12:06 PM PST by Ben Mugged (Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.)
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To: msnimje
That's a no-op statement if I've ever heard one. No one is going to get a meaningful peace accord in the Middle East. That one is just going to have to go to the victor some day.
14 posted on 03/05/2007 7:12:31 PM PST by krb (If you're not outraged, people probably like having you around.)
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To: George W. Bush
Is this day three or four of these repeated stories? Ok, his children aren't on the campaign. Perhaps they can do yet another story about this tomorrow.

Don't particularly care.
15 posted on 03/05/2007 7:13:07 PM PST by kingu (No, I don't use sarcasm tags - it confuses people.)
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To: George W. Bush
LOL...well, given the way the MSM reports on conservative candidates of any stripe, we should all be thankful it doesn't say:

"Giuliani Estranged From Eats His Children"

16 posted on 03/05/2007 7:13:18 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: George W. Bush

I'm sure the Rudyites have a plausible cover story for this. Perhaps, they could smear Reagan or remind us that by holding to our principles we are nothing more than Democrat dupes.


17 posted on 03/05/2007 7:14:47 PM PST by claudiustg
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To: joonbug

Patty Davis (she wouldn't even use her father's name) wrote very negative stories about her family, "fictionalized" novel versions. I read one of them, it was quite obvious who she was writing about, and her anger at her parents. Ron Jr. we could write pages about ourselves, his estrangement from them, his life-style, words, actions. I see this campaign will be very ugly and from some in his own party. And all sanctioned here at the F.R. and in fact encouraged. But of course the less than ideal reality of many other Republicans, past and prsent, is brushed off as quite OK.


18 posted on 03/05/2007 7:15:08 PM PST by BonnieJ
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To: msnimje

A US President needs to kick the crap out of the Middle East, whenever necessary -- not go kissy face with 'em.


19 posted on 03/05/2007 7:15:33 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Veritas. Gravitas. Ohmygas.)
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To: joonbug
How close was Ron Reagan Jr (the dancer) to his dad?

Strawman. Ron Jr was a bad apple, his father wasn't divorced multiple times and support liberal social issues.

20 posted on 03/05/2007 7:15:34 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Good night Chesty, wherever you are!)
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