The urban and suburban professionals Rudy appeals to will find his self-deprecating humor to be refreshing. The yahoos in the stix will not understand it, but they were rendered irrelevant in 2006 and will be more so next year.
Rudy can easily turn this lemon into lemonade by going on Oprah or Letterman, letting the photos be put out there, having a good laugh over it and pointing out how many people benefitted by the charitable fund-raising his antics facilitated. If he can find a baby who was cured and now lives a productive life because of Rudy's ability to poke a little fun at himself, so much the better.
The only place these photos hurt Rudy Giuliani is in the imaginations of the anti-Rudy crowd. It is one more example of their bad political judgment.
No way. This is the Presidency of the United States we are talking about here. The leader of the free world. Nobody wants a cross-dresser in the White House. Once may be a good nature gag, twice is a big problem. He's done. That is a humiliating photo that will hang around his neck like a millstone.
Wrong.
Some of the antics and groups he still aligns himself with show that it’s more than antics, it’s ENDORSEMENT.
Classic Northeastern elitism...where the border stops in Greenwich Village.
Southerners ain't that cloistered.
This statement qualifies as the "Delusion of the Week".
“The cross-dressing stuff helps Rudy more than it hurts him.”
Yeah, you keep telling yourself that.
Your statement here makes the rest of us wonder how you dress when you go out...
I think that pretty well sums up your candidate's view of the people who were very recently regarded as the heart and soul of the Republican Party.
The only ones who believe that have drunk too much Roody-Aide.
The "yahoos in the stix" (otherwise known as red-state voters in flyover country who constitute the base of the GOP) are sick of slicks like you talking down to them.
If Rudy had done it once, it would be forgivable. But he's done it on several occasions. He seems to have some sort of a cross-dressing fetish, and seems to enjoy it a little too much. I, and most people I know, won't vote for a transvestite.
Do you believe conservatives watch those twits? I thought those programs were for hte liberals. Oops, I forgot this is Rudy Judy we are talking about.
No...
It's goofball LIBERALS like Kerry in the "bunny suit", Dukakis with the oversized helmet on in the tank turret, and RINO-rudy in his various cross-dressing outfits that have the bad political judgement.
“The yahoos in the stix will not understand it, but they were rendered irrelevant in 2006 and will be more so next year.”
Gotta agree - he’s got a sense of humor
After hearing how we right winged religious extremist social conservative yahoos supposedly stayed home in 2006 and gave control of the Congress to the Dems, now we are irrelevant?
You might be able to switch hit when y'all put on your make-up, but some things you just can't have both ways.
But don't worry. We d@mned sure won't be voting for Rudy.
We understand it alright. Rudy IS a trainwreck. He is also a fool for thinking he will be the nominee when his record and these pictures hit the MSM on a daily schedule.
He just looks to be enjoying it too much. I don't want pictures of my President looking the fool for foreign consumption. It may just be for a special occasion, but the pictures remain.
Also your assessments of the 2006 elections are not correct and you do not have any credibility on a conservative site. Most of what you say here is irrelevant, its amazing how you think we are irrelevant, but here you are. Are you just here to lob insults, or is the purpose that Rooty cannot win without us? It would be refreshing if Rudy would take a hike.
Rudy dressed in drag is startling...but certainly wouldn’t be enough to change my vote for him, were I so inclined.
The attitude you have towards those of us “yahoos in the stix” ...on the other hand...is one I find distinctly and ironically narrow and, if shared by the candidate you support, will be his undoing.
I know you think the world and all of Rudy, as do many other FReepers. I cannot empasize how much harm you do him by your snobby and condescending attitude.
I work with a guy from Brooklyn who isn't amused with FruityRuity's transvestite tendencies either. Perhaps what you meant to say was "all the stupid, unsophisticated yokels outside of Manhattan".
As a yahoo from the stix (you are just sizzlin' with allegorical content today, huh?), I find Rudy's dressing as a woman on numerous occasions disquieting and not helpful to America's image during a time of war.
I would not vote for him as first choice due to his pro-abortion, pro-gun control and pro-homosexual agenda.
I do find your liberal elitism a bit out of place here. You do know that the the Yahoos in flyover country do make more than significant contributions to America's Armed Forces, not to mention, farmers, construction workers, truck drivers . In other words they allow you to practice your progressive lifestyle in safety and comfort.