The Wall Street Journal editorial board admires Rudy Giuliani’s campaign and record as mayor of New York City but devoted a full editorial last week to Giuliani’s strange behavior, most recently taking a phone call from his wife during his speech to the National Rifle Association. He once took two calls during an Oklahoma appearance, the editorial noted; combined with his messy marital history and family relationships, such incidents risk putting off voters. The editorial went on: “Giuliani ought to be aware of this vulnerability and do nothing to compound it. ‘That was just weird,’ one NRA audience member told the New York Post about the phone interruption. Mr. Giuliani doesn’t need more weird.”
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Nope, Rudy is not wierd. He just likes taking phone calls in the middle of speeches, wearing women’s clothing and having a wife and 2 other gals on the side. I would say that is pretty normal for Republicans.
Guiliani said in interview with Pat Robertson (yes, even Pat didn’t buy the BS) that his wife and him stay in touch because of 9/11. Everything revolves around 9/11 for this guy because I guess everything changed after 9/11, including Guiliani’s wife.
Giulinai is a good guy. He isn’t any stranger than the normal person.
He would make a good President, but probably a better Attorney General though.
Did Guiliani’s wife not know that he was making a speech when she telephoned him? If they are that close, then why on earth would Rudy boy not mention the fact that he was giving a speech at that moment?
I think this is just a media hype to try to make a weirdo into something resembling a loving, family man.
Rudy Guiliani has to be the weirdest one running for president since Ross Perot and his running mate, the confused war hero (remember him?)
He would make a good President, but probably a better Attorney General though.
Posted by: Joe Williams
Attorney General? Based on what criteria? His ineptness at Ground Zero when he ordered the rescue workers to stop looking when they reached the gold bars?
One look at the picture and one can only think ‘boy is he weird’.
A last word for Rudy… YEEE HAH!
The whole republican field is a little weird. Rudy carries more baggage than a Coleman Porter. Ancient “chipmunk cheeks” McCain… if he isn’t suffering from dementia now, he would be before he left office. Mitt was interesting, but between torturing animals and not being Christian, he won’t really appeal to the base. Fred “I wanna be John Wayne” Thompson is just a joke, which will probably assure he’s the republican candidate. Ron Paul…Very interesting candidate. I think he’d have a lot of appeal to independents, but not quite right wingnut crazy enough.
Too bad Newt isn’t going to run.
Just goes to show how far the repukes will go to PANDER to the “family values” crowd.
And speaking of values, where was values boy this week? Off licking his wounds? Writing his farewell column?
Mabye he can tell us how the “values” crowd views Rudy and his pandering?
heheheheheheheheheheh…..
KFG,Careful! If VB comes up missing, they’ll be asking you where the body is hidden, LOL!
hee hee hee hee…..
“Careful! If VB comes up missing, they’ll be asking you where the body is hidden, LOL!”
Naaaaawwwwwww. They’ll just think it’s the rapture…
Rudy can act as weirdly as he wants: the base senses that he shares their desire to put minorities in their place, and his authoritarianism appeals to their need to have someone they can hand their freedom of thought and action over to.
None of Rudy’s personal marital indiscretions or bizarre family behavior registers with the base. He polls higher than anyone with the Fundos.
The nutjob Fundo base looks at Rudy, with his racism, paranoia, and authoritarianism, and they see a fellow traveller.
Rudy is clearly the GOP candidate to beat. Over the head, with a stick.
What? Is he gonna take a call from his wife in the middle of the state of the Union? Maybe she’ll just stick her head in the door “Ruuudy!”
“I’ll get back to you honey. I’m playing President.”
The guy is a joke. What ISN’t funny is he uses 911 as his excuse to exist and inflict himself on us. He had a fundraiser after the last anniversary of Sept 11. The sugggested donation? $9.11.
Sick and despicable
Hehehe, good one, CF, good one.
I think you hit the nail on the head (where we’d like to hammer Giuliani in fact) — fundos differ from leftists primarilly in their need for authority, which they equate with strength and righteousness.
Hence, their need for the vengenful YHWH God of the Old Testament meting out angry punishments and his instrument of justice on earth, George “Scourge” Bush.
Progressives believe in systems. People are good not because someone will shoot them if their bad, but because they live in a good society where people care about each other and systematic injustice is not tolerated.
That means social, economic and political injustice.
CONs believe that some people are just born bad, and it’s the job of the good people to protect themselves, wall themselves off from the bad people or kill the bad off.
LIBs believe that good societies produce good people and bad societies produce more bad people.
Consider the crime and murder rate of the United States to any other industrialized country, to Canada for instance.
That’s a result of a system, not of individual choice for “goodness.”
Not their, THEY’RE
Note to self – always proofread.
Cap’N,
Indeed. It always comes down to some form of mythos versus logos, doesn’t it?
For the record, here’s the Gallup poll numbers regarding Rudy’s excellent performance among “values” voters.
http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/09/_rudy_dominating_gop_field_among_conservatives_religious_voters.php
This proves, once and for all, that “values” voters got no values. All they want is all authority, all the time.
I thing the repub. base is looking for an authoritarian father figure, who will protect them from the boogey man, what ever it/he may be at any given time.
I saw a news item (sorry, no link) that Huckabee has finally at least partially broken from Bush on Foreign Policy. Notably the fact that Iran helped the US topple the Taliban and that Bush rejected the opportunity to build upon that.
And why would anyone want Newt to run? I fail to see the attraction to that man – although he must have some attraction due to the fact he has had several wives – also.
What is it with Republicans? Can they not hold on to their women are do their women finally wake up to the fact they are married to a slime ball?
I see the moveon.org crowd has driven anyone with sense off this blog. One whiny leftwing Democrat who thinks he’s funny after another.
Nope, Rudy is not wierd. He just likes taking phone calls in the middle of speeches, wearing women’s clothing and having a wife and 2 other gals on the side. I would say that is pretty normal for Republicans.
Posted by: Kev
i don’t think rudy has passed the “i’m for family values” but i got busted trying to get into a stall in a public restroom with a person of my own sex test.
ori spent my family’s savings on hookers in cheap motel rooms test.
or
i’m trying to get in bed with a underage capitol page who happens to be a boy test.
or…
I see the moveon.org crowd has driven anyone with sense off this blog. One whiny leftwing Democrat who thinks he’s funny after another.
Posted by: Jim
it’s so easy to have someone or something to hate so you don’t have to think about the 2 million kajillion trazillion your boy bush has wasted invading the wrong country.
oh yeah, there’s the little problem of the 30,000 wounded or dead american kids from the bush/cheney/rumsfeld/tenent/powell/etc invasion of the wrong country.
does… “they will welcome us with open arms” ring a bell right wing boy ??
moveon.org is the latest really very bad lib group to think about. it’s always something with rush/bile orielly/glen beck and those other guys who give your brain a reason to think.
i’m guessing you are the only rightwing nutjob in here because rudy I AM 911 giuliani isn’t mainstream for them to waste the time to comment.
anyway, fred thompson and his daughter are more their type.
whiny ?great.so, “whiny” is the latest word you have been given permission to call your fellow americans.
have you rightwing nut case’s already worn out…nazisleftyspinkoscommie loverscloset homos
tax and spenderssocial engineerslimo libsdemstroop haterscut and runners
happily for you tomorrow’s monday.you can get a new word from the oxy addict, the sexual harrasser, and all those other wacky liars on your right wing radio and tv.
Weird? Nope, he’s one of millions of Americans who haven’t yet figured out where the “off” button is on their cell phones.
A Guiliani is just what the GOP needs at the moment after eight years of corrupt theocracy and the Gingrich congress.
Even if they nominate him the GOP will still lose.
Here’s why: the lunatic fringe will stay home because for them this NY greasball big city type is as bad as any democrat.And the rest of the population has run away from the GOP and sees how full of bull it is.
The Republicans are so stupid. Watch, they’ll still be stuck on 9/11. Talk about beating a dead horse. The public is basically tired of fear mongering and
the over commemoration of something that happened six years ago.