Posted on 03/13/2007 5:29:36 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Assembling a panel to discuss how the presidential contenders' marital histories may affect their candidacies, "Today" resorted to one of its favorite tricks this morning: match a loyal Dem with a renegade former Republican. Former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers was matched with Bay Buchanan, who served as her brother Pat's campaign manager when he left the GOP and ran against George W. Bush as a third-party candidate in 2000.
The strategy paid dividends from NBC's perspective, as two of the roughest shots at the Republicans were taken by Bay. Consider these two bombs Bay dropped.
Regarding Rudy: "If they [responding to a question about Rudy] will treat their wives this way, with such disregard, their children, allow this kind of marriage to collapse in a public way, the voters don't have a prayer of a chance. You can't believe a word the man says."
Regarding Newt: "His first marriage, divorce, is going to be very critical, he delivered the divorce papers to his wife who was in a hospital bed being diagnosed with breast cancer. I can't find a lot of women who are going to vote for a man who did something like that."
View video here.Not that Bay was alone. Meredith aunched an anti-Rudy bomb of her own. Here's Vieira's comment-in-the-guise-of-a-question that elicted Bay's answer set forth above: "If Giuliani can't keep his family together, how will he keep the country together?"
That's odd. When Bill Clinton was lying to his family, to the country and while under oath about his extramarital activities, wasn't the official Dem/MSM line that "lying about sex doesn't count"? But suddenly, in MSM eyes, a man's marital peccadilloes call into his question his fitness to lead. Let's see, what's changed?
Aside: Bay did also speculate as to whether Bill Clinton could keep himself "clean" over the course of the campaign, and how new "bimbo eruptions" could hurt Hillary's chances. She pointed out that Dems have been thinking the same thing. We know that Chris Matthews has worried long and hard along those lines.Contact Mark at mark@gunhill.net
Another Freeper than needs a lesson in history.
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In the case of Newt or Rudy, the deplorable manner that they treated their first wives is enough to cause many to question their basic decency. Personally, I think the extent that Mitt/Newt/Rudy went to avoid any type of military service calls into question their suitability to be commander in chief.
I wasn't really concerned with politics back then. I started to become a Regan fan when he shot down the flight controllers union. To answer your question, I would have had the same concern.
Mayor Guiliani isn't my first choice, nor my second, as the Republican presidential candidate, but I would support him in the blink of an eye over anyone the Democraps have offered up.
Likewise, Even though it makes me sick that the GOP can't/won't get behind a conservative, and Rudy is definitely not one, I will still vote straight Republican.
Why someone like Cal Thomas can't figure that out is mindboggling...
Okay...which stories are untrue? The adulterous affair or the two divorces. Straighten me out about Rudy.
Doesn't make any difference to me.
This is the Presidency we're talking about, not Sec'y/Homeland Security.
Rudy's not a conservative, and hasn't yet appointed a conservative judge.
No problem to judge him by his POLITICAL actions--we don't need to go any further.
Same-o re McPain and Romney, no matter the machinations of the East Coast Establishment Pubbies.
They're all losers.
No, he was divorced in 1985, but I have found no hints of scandal so far.
The real point is that Today presents a false balance on its panels; a true Dem like Myers versus "balanced" with someone like Bay who is not a Republican and who was as critical of Republicans as Myers!
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