What really hurts Rudy about this is it shows a “public” face and a “private” face. Publicly he’s saying he’s at the clean up site all day. He’s with the brave firemen. But privately he’s living it up with professional athletes. If this is an isolated incident it does nothing, but when you add marital infedelity, family trouble and other questional decisions in his private life, one could come to believe that Rudy has one face in public, and another in private. Somebody could exploit that.
It will be interesting to see whether Mitt goes after Rootie on this issue later on in the winter, it could make some hay for him just like the “sanctuary city” designation put the favorite on the defensive.