Posted on 04/28/2007 1:39:09 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
NEW YORK, New York (1010 WINS) -- Rudy Giuliani ripped into the head of the Democratic Party yesterday for getting personal by suggesting Giuliani's family life poses a "serious problem."
The shot earlier this week by Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean marks the first time Dems have openly targeted Giuliani's messy past.
During a CNN interview, Dean said the GOP presidential front-runner "has a lot of character issues that he has to answer for."
"We've begun to reach out to evangelical Christians, and that's a real problem for him," Dean told CNN. "His personal life is a serious problem for him."
Dean refused to say what he was referring to, although the former mayor's marriage to his third wife, Judith Nathan, in 2003 followed a bitter, public breakup with wife No. 2, Donna Hanover.
Giuliani's team fired back hard yesterday in a Daily News article, calling Dean's verbal grenade a desperate ploy to divert attention away from the Democrats' wavering on Iraq, a theme Giuliani has clearly decided is working for him.
"Last night, the Democratic candidates for President once again made clear they just don't understand the terrorists' war on us," Giuliani communication chief Katie Levinson said, referring to the Democrats' Thursday night debate. "So sadly, it yet again comes as no surprise that the political leader of the Democratic Party - in a desperate effort to once again change the subject - resorted to a personal political attack."
The back-and-forth seemed to underscore growing concern among Democrats about Giuliani, who is the only Republican who beats all top Democrats in key battleground states, a poll showed this week.
Dean is not stupid.
From the very beginning the “CW” was that RG could win a general but could not survive the R primary.
What they r now concerned about is that ... despite all the noise about his views, private life etc ... his favorability/unfavorability rating (most imporatant poll at this point) is still higher than anyone ... by a substantial margin...and just tool an uptick.
His speech Monday night forced all four main D candidates respond like Pavlov’s dog.
RG pulled in $10 million in March and expected to pull in north of $30 million in 2nd Q. He now has organizations in all 50 states and this weeks Quinnipace polls shows him beating an D in the 6 key swing states.
Why? Read Steve Forbes column on why he endorsed him ... although they disagree on several issues.
You certainly should do everything to defeat him if you believe in someone else ... give all the money you can...but to repeat Dean’s comments is just playing their game.
You need to accept that it is very likely RG will be the nominee and the other choice is Hillary.
Here we go again ,fighting against your own party.For sure conservatives will lose big time again in 08,and it will be your own fault.
Heh. Given what they put up with Bubba doing when he was president, if I were a Democrat, and I were smart (to the extent that’s not a contradiction in terms), I think I’d not want to make too much of Rudy’s marital problems.
Burning excrement.
Oh oh. The greenies are going to accuse Rudy of polluting.
be for anyone you want ... work for them/give them money ... talk about why your person is the best choice ... BUT stop playing Dean’s game
Not quite sure how a disaster of this scale could have been”managed.” The lack of communications between police and firemen because of different equipment, regretable as it was, mattered little in the end. You denigate the mayor’s leadership, but the appearance of leading is important, and he certainly did not fail in that regard. Certainly Bush’s failure in the aftermath of Katrina was largely a matter of appearance. Fact is that the government was not capable handling this even if FEMA had been up to snuff. It was up to the polical leadership to assure the public that all reasonable measures were being taken but that they had been caught by surprise but were readjusting. I still don’t understand how they could let panicky televisions news reporter set the tone and put out so much wrong information. We didn’t
t see that coming out of New York.
Thats a pretty apt analogy
“Thanks for the Boat Ride”
Donna Rice
isn’t it more productive to discuss why your candidate is the best?
Small potatoes. Wake me up when the MSM & Dems start attacking him.
Rudy OWNS the shredder, and the RATS had better learn to like it.
Rudy doesn't own anything, except for a 34C bra and panties.
And just WTF was he supposed to do about airliners taking off from other airports crashing into buildings in his city?
There comes a point that Rudy bashing goes too far past the point of credible criticism. Bush was in charge that day but I don’t blame him for what happened even though he runs the military.
Yet another lib exposes themselves with their own words. If you're not part of OUR Conservative movement, then WTH are you here? Blackbird.
The difference being, that we would not attack them over it, and would not attempt to politicize the war, as they have done.
They would receive far more criticism from their own party.
He’s going to be a player in this election. The 40% of the people in this country who consider themselves conservatives are not a plurality in the national elections. And, after 8 years of Bush people are ready for a change. My sense is that the country is leftward right now.
If you’re taking your cues from howard dean, and still can’t see how stupid that is, you’re hopeless. Howard loves you.
Ah, FR and Howard Dean joining hands together in common purpose.
Sickening.
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