So far you're spot on. People are attacking the messanger and not refuting the message.
Liberal rag or not, is the information true? Did city spending spiral out of control while Giuliani was mayor? Were his polls as bad as the story says they were in 2000? Are the quotes attributed to him accurate? And most of all, has he been as politically expedient in terms of party affiliation as has been claimed?
Thanks. That's what I'm after.
More recently, Liz Trotta had this to say in the Washington Times (8/25/98): “Thirty years ago, Rep. Peter King, a GOP congressman from Long Island worked alongside Mr. Giuliani when they were interns in Richard M. Nixon’s law firm. In those days, Mr. King recalled, the mayor was a “radical left” supporter of activists like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown. “He didn’t think much of Republicans then,” said Mr. King, “except maybe Rocky” — former Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Citing the mayor’s stands on abortion and homosexual rights, Mr. King described Mr. Giuliani as “too liberal” and “too temperamental” to be a GOP presidential choice.