Rudy Giuliani Would Be Our Bill Clinton

Posted on December 1, 2007

Perhaps the biggest oddity of the Republican primary season so far has been that GOP voters keep saying that they want another Reagan, the candidates keep comparing themselves to Reagan at every opportunity, and yet the man who is leading in the national polls, Rudy Giuliani, is about as far apart from Reagan as it’s possible to get ideologically while still remaining in the Republican Party. Rudy Giuliani is no Reagan. What he is, and what he would be if he gets the nomination, is our Bill Clinton.
Consider a few things.

Yes, Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury, not for having an affair, but conservatives relentlessly bashed Bill Clinton throughout the nineties for cheating on his wife and degrading the office. Well, morally Rudy Giuliani is every bit as sleazy as Bill Clinton.

He has been married 3 times, which could be forgivable in a President, but he also cheated on his second wife with his current wife, Judith Nathan, and announced his separation from wife number two, Donna Hanover, to her and the world at the same time at a press conference.

This has seldom been discussed during the primary season, which is rather bizarre given that the biggest knock against Newt Gingrich that I heard when he was thinking about running — from the readers on my blog and other bloggers privately — was that they were disgusted by his affairs and shabby treatment of his former wife. Yet Rudy, whose Clintonesque private behavior is every bit as appalling as Newt’s, has gotten a pass on the issue.

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2 Responses to “Rudy Giuliani Would Be Our Bill Clinton”

Neil on December 1st, 2007 5:43 pm

Yes, it just makes us look like we didn’t really care about Clinton’s adultery or his lying and that we just wanted ammo against him. I’m surprised Rudy’s opponents haven’t brought it up.
Pete Dukoski on December 1st, 2007 6:17 pm

The writer of the commentary I’m respond to would better serve the reader if he had his facts straight. Giuliani’s first marriage was annulled, i.e., it did not exist according to Law. He and his second wife Donna Hanover were living apart, sometimes called separation, at the time he was introduced to Judith Nathan. Before commenting it would be best if you did your research before writing such a biased diatribe.