Well, it appears that Giuliani's harshest critics will come not from the left but from the hard right. James Dobson, a man too busy spreading the gospel to de-gayify his supposedly good buddy Ted Haggard, recently, and definitively, shat on Giuliani:
My conclusion from this closer look at the current GOP front-runner comes down to this: Speaking as a private citizen and not on behalf of any organization or party, I cannot, and will not, vote for Rudy Giuliani in 2008. It is an irrevocable decision. If given a Hobson's – Dobson's? – choice between him and Sens. Hillary Clinton or Barrack Obama, I will either cast my ballot for an also-ran – or if worse comes to worst – not vote in a presidential election for the first time in my adult life. My conscience and my moral convictions will allow me to do nothing else.
That's gonna leave a mark. More on the flip side.
Here is the link to the editorial- http://www.worldnetdaily.com./...
WARNING: before going to this site I suggest a beer/drink/pill of your choice as your head is likely to pop off absent adequate sedation. But I digress. Why, praytell, is Dobson so upset with the Rudster? The usual suspects- support for abortion rights, support for domestic partnerships (i.e. gay marriage), cross-dressing and multiple bouts of philandering.
There are other moral concerns about Giuliani's candidacy that conservatives should find troubling. He has been married three times, and his second wife was forced to go to court to keep his mistress out of the mayoral mansion while the Giuliani family still lived there. Talk about tap dancing. Also during that time, the mayor used public funds to provide security services for his girlfriend. The second Mrs. Giuliani finally had enough of his philandering and, as the story goes, forced him to move out. He lived with friends for a while and then married his mistress. Unlike some other Republican presidential candidates, Giuliani appears not to have remorse for cheating on his wife.
Damn Rudy, better put a steak on that eye.
Dobson sums up his disgust with a nice quote from a great Democratic president from the Show Me State:
Harry Truman asked, "How can I trust a man if his wife can't?" It is a very good question.
I sure hate agreeing with Dobson but here we are. Dobson is a big wheel in the wingnut world. He is the Chairman of Focus on the Family which claims that his radio broadcasts are heard by 220,000,000 people throughout the world including on 3,000 stations in North America supplemented by 60 TV stations that feature his programming on a daily basis. He has a magazine, internet presence and has sold literally millions of books. see http://www.focusonthefamily.com/... for his bio.
Methinks this is the first glimpse of an avalanche of right wing Rudy haters. If this is correct then the GOP has really big issues as losing the fundies means losing the election. To quote another great American, Nelson Muntz, "Ha Ha." http://hem.passagen.se/...