Posted on 09/30/2007 4:02:59 AM PDT by shrinkermd
My biggest concern about these cross-dressing episodes is that they -- in combination with other aspects of his personal life -- paint a picture of a person with some pretty serious psychological baggage.
How about some historical perspective here?
Men dressing as women have always looked and sounded hilarious. Whether it’s Halloween or Elizabethan theater or Noel Coward entertaining the troops during WWII, it’s just damned funny.
Rudy is tough as nails, and will certainly get my support.
Now I guess I’ll have to retire after only a week on FR.
Rudy Giuliani is not "tough as nails" at all. He's a short, bald, lisping lawyer from New York City who has probably never made a fist in his life.
I'll offer a quote from an extensive post I made on FreeRepublic earlier this year. I think it addresses this issue pretty well . . .
Anyone who has the time to do some research on Rudy Giuliani might want to sit down and do an extensive search through old newspaper articles, internet articles, etc. -- and try to find any such article where Mr. Giuliani is doing something that anyone would consider “manly” in any normal sense -- and by this I mean engaging in physical activity, playing a sport, or doing just about anything that most normal people would associate with manliness. I’ve looked long and hard for this, and I simply can’t find one. I mean, even something staged as a photo-op for PR purposes -- like Ronald Reagan riding a horse or chopping wood on his California ranch, George W. Bush clearing brush on his ranch or driving around Crawford in that big white Ford F-350 Super Duty truck -- is nowhere to be found.
"Tough as nails?" LOL -- you must be kidding me.
Yeah, but Thompson’s wife is better looking. Therefore, the “conservative women” won’t vote for him.
“I’m just glad that you represent less than 2% of the base.”
So 98% of the Republican base would vote for a pro-abort, gun-grabbing, pro-illegal alien and pro-gay candidate for POTUS and you think that’s a GOOD THING?
>NJ and Pennn are the most notable.
Whistling past the graveyard. My opinion of course.
I count the Pa & NJ electoral votes cobalt blue.
>I believe most of those folks are not in touch with the severe anti-GOP mood prevailing in most of the country.
Dispositive proof that your first statement is false.
Although I doubt that I’m going anywhere near a Heaven, I like the rest of your post. Thanks.
“Most normal people would associate with manliness”???
Gosh, maybe in the 19th century. And as you pointed out, anyone can stage a photo op or even a photoshop.
“Short, bald, lisping lawyer” - umm, you don’t want to be accused of the John Edwards airhead thing, do you?
Before Rudy was elected Mayor of NYC, women did not go out alone after dark. Period. It was not safe. Then it all changed.
Standing up to the City Council, the race baiters, all the usual suspects, was the most “manly” thing I’ve seen around here, ever. Then came 911 and despite all the cynicism, he was our lifeline on that horrible day; he never wavered.
P.S. Ever seen a photo-op of Margaret Thatcher doing “manly” things? It’s not your race or your sex or your looks, it’s what you’ve got inside ya! (IMHO)
“And he’ll get my vote only after I’m dead and start voting for liberals.”
LOL, The sad fate of many big city deceased.
Right. However, it's worth noting that Rudy Giuliani is the solution to problems that most Americans don't have. And commending someone for his totalitarian (and outright unconstitutional, in some cases) approach to law enforcement demonstrates a pathetic attachment to a big, nanny-state government.
Then came 911 and despite all the cynicism, he was our lifeline on that horrible day; he never wavered.
Oh, sure. What exactly did Mr. Giuliani do for you that day? He got on television and made a bunch of public appearances. His effort -- and the silly infatuation people in New York City suddenly had with him -- was something right out of Bill Clinton's playbook for governing.
P.S. Ever seen a photo-op of Margaret Thatcher doing “manly” things? It’s not your race or your sex or your looks, it’s what you’ve got inside ya! (IMHO)
Margaret Thatcher wasn't a man (nor was she a chief executive, for that matter), so I wouldn't expect anything of the sort from her.
No, he is probably not a homo, however, he does have the morals of an alley cat!
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