This could be huge. The Smoking Gun has discovered a 450 page opposition research due diligence book from Rudy Giuliani’s second campaign for mayor in 1993.
As he tried to win election in an overwhelmingly Democratic city, Giuliani needed “inoculating against” the “Reagan Republican moniker,” the vulnerability study reported. “The Giuliani campaign should emphasize its candidate’s independence from traditional national Republican policies.” The final six words of that sentence are underlined in the study. Additionally, the Giuliani report noted that the candidate needed to make it clear to voters that he was “pretty good on most issues of concern to gay and lesbian New Yorkers” and was pro-choice and supported public funding for abortion. “He will continue city funding for abortions at city hospitals. Nothing more, nothing less.”
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He surely could not have been pleased to read that his “personal life raises questions about a ‘weirdness factor.’” That weirdness, aides reported, stemmed from Giuliani’s 14-year marriage to his second cousin, a union that he got annulled by claiming to have never received proper dispensation from the Catholic Church for the unorthodox nuptials. “When asked about his personal life, Giuliani gives a wide array of conflicting answers,” the campaign report stated. “All of this brings the soundness of his judgement into question–and the veracity of his answers.” The internal study also addresses prospective charges that Giuliani dodged the Vietnam draft and was a “man without convictions” because of his transformation from George McGovern voter to a Reagan-era Justice Department appointee. “In many ways Rudy Giuliani is a political contradiction…He doesn’t really fit with the Republicans. Too liberal. Giuliani has troubles with the Democrats, too.” [Emphasis added]
It’s safe to say that all of this is material that will be heavy fodder for both rival Republican campaigns in the primary and, if he wins the GOP nomination, his eventual Democratic opponent. This is the second leak of a major Giuliani internal campaign document, though this one is much older than the recent discovery of his campaign victory plan. Unfortunately for Giuliani, with Mitt Romney in the race everyone’s past becomes a major question in the Republican field.
Hat tip to reader MS for the link.
6 Responses to “Rudy’s Weirdness Problem”
MARRIED 3 TIMES ,
SCREWING CITY EMPOYEE CRIS IN BSMT AS WIFE AND KIDS SLEPT IN FLOOR ABOVE,
ASK WAYNE BARRETT
V. VOICE.
OVERSAW MAFIA GOLF COURSE FERRY POINT PARK BX. WHERE HE FLEECED TAXPAYERS OUT OF 8 MIL. AND COUNTING AS MAFIA GANGSTERS MADE TAXFREE MILLIONS
HIRED 2 CROOKS FOR PD COMM SAFER AND KERICK.
SEE NY DAILY NEWS 8-14-05
BIG GOLF MESS SUITS
MOB TO A TEE.
[...] Giuliani was married to his second cousin for fourteen years — illegal in dozens of countries and forever dubbed “the weirdness factor.” He had an adulterous affair while married to his second wife and publicly announced his intention to separate from her before he informed her. (However, it is not even close to former House Speaker Gingrich, who served his first wife and former high school math teacher, with divorce papers while she was in the hospital for cancer. It takes a certain kind of assholeness to do that.) Giuliani is currently working on a third marriage and appears to have forgotten about his past. [...]
[...] Other Skeptics of the “Guiliani” types: Huffington Post; The Right’s Post; MemeOrandum (great blog roundup); The Influence Peddler [...]
Something to say?
THIS PHONEY HERO OF 911 WHO ONLY SAVED HIMSELF TO MAKE MILLIONS ON HIS FAME AT THE COST OF OF 3000 NYERS IS A DISGRACE AND WILL WIN NOTHING,
WHEN HES EXPOSED FOR COVERING UP THE DECEPTION OF THE 911 ATTACK.
DEMO OF WTC 7 AT 5PM AND ROBBERY OF BILLIONS IN GOLD BARS FROM WTC 4 VAULT.
SEE LOOSE CHANGE AND THE MONEYMASTERS ON YOU TUBE.
Left by 3000 KILLED IN NYC 911
February 12, 2007 at 10:35pm