Posted on 03/06/2007 1:20:45 AM PST by neverdem
It doesn't look like Rudy Giuliani's two children will have a role in his presidential campaign. According to media 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.
Campaigning in Southern California on Monday, Giuliani asked for privacy to deal with the strained relationship with his children.
"My wife Judith is a very loving and caring ... mother and stepmother. She has done everything she can. The responsibility is mine," Giuliani said. "The more privacy I can have for my family, the better we are going to be able to deal with all these difficulties."
Andrew Giuliani is a sophomore at Duke and a member of the school's golf team. Caroline attends a private school in Manhattan. She will attend Harvard University in the fall.
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."
They must LOVE Hillary almost as much as they hate Rudy. More maybe. They are out of their minds IMO.
And when the kids grow up, if ever, they will regret their blinded loyalty to their mother. They just don't know how to give up the power of victimhood yet.
Being promoted here by gutter minds.
Andrew probably was also concerned that when the grads started praying, singing hymns, and getting blessed, his stepmother would have felt "uncomfortable." Sweet Jesus, the woman might have totally freaked out.
This all just reeks of Donna Hanover's work. Sad she can't just keep her feelings to herself, and not poison the kids against their dad. It's the worst thing you can do, drag kids into the center ring of a divorce.
Well, he's a Duke brat - he's gotta be guilty of something.... </s>
Certainly, vitriolic, bitchy women have no right to evoke God, nor can they claim to be personally Godly nor "Christian."
:)--That's funny. Chris Farley really used to make me laugh.
Who's "they?"
I think a Rudy Presidency would be as bad for America as the Clinton "Two-fer" one was.
Reagan was estranged at times from his kids too and it didn't seem to hurt his political career any.
This is the problem I have with Rudy's personal/public life.
I have absolutely no problem with him being divorced. I've been divorced and I know that sometimes, no matter how hard you try, two people have made a mistake and they are not meant to live together. His divorce isn't the issue, it's his moral conduct while he was married that is the issue.
Now, even if Donna was the biggest bitch to ever walk the earth, there is no excuse in the world for Rudy to have two very public affairs while he was still married to her and while he held the office of mayor. So people are human and they make mistakes you say? Well, okay then let's give him a pass on the first affair as a 'just a human mistake'. Does he not learn from his 'mistakes'? Apparently not, or the alternative is that he doesn't consider his conduct to be immoral. Either option does not speak well of him or his judgement in my opinion.
We don't know enough to make that assessment. He could have pushed her to it, for all we know. Although, from what I've heard, she is no gem either. Divorce is so rarely the right thing that I cannot see how it is the right choice. You stay in the vows you make.
Uh, I don't think so . . .
Multiple paragraphs later, part of the rest of the story:
...Andrew Giuliani is a sophomore at Duke and a member of the school's golf team.
Reported else but conveniently omitted by cBS is that Jr Guiliani has hopes of becoming a pro golfer.
NYT & cBS could have explained that taking a couple of years off from training might not be a good idea for any young athlete hoping to pursue a professional sport but just could not resist the 'working on my golf game' sneer factor.
Possibly they're making up for losing out on reporting Jr Dean's country club Liquor Heist & Jr Gore's Reckless Driving. Wonder how many carbon credits daddy Gore bought to patch up the Ozone Hole left by Jr's speeding Cadillac?
Wouldn't surprise me if by fall Andrew takes a semester (or two) off from college to help his father's campaign.
Stranger things have happened.
Rudy's kids sound like an Achilles' heal.
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