I'm going to reread this, for a third time, to see if it makes any sense at all, but I doubt that it will. He's FOR Rudy, but against him, against him, but for him, calls him a racists, them proves that he isn't one.
I agree. It must be a copy of a column he wrote for Slate or some other periodical. He must've had a deadline he couldn't think of something to write about in time for, so he just winged it. Badly.
I read the article differently. I didn't see him associate himself with calling Rudy racist, indeed he claims to have himself shut up Al Sharpton in a debate.What he says is that Rudy has a strong authoritarian streak, as exemplified by some of the court cases he brought as a prosecutor - and lost. I well remember Guliani "perp walking" some Wall Street types - and then failing to convict them. I'm sorry, that's the kind of behavior you'd expect of Hillary, not something you want to work for. Add in gun control and what you have is an arrogant streak in the man which is all too typical of liberals.
All in all, Rudy is just too strong a medicine for the presidency. You wouldn't want Rudy on the Supreme Court, but you advocate putting him in a position to nominate justices to SCotUS.