Kristol: Giuliani nomination 'problematic' in scandal's wake

[RamboLiberal]

Conservatives agree: this week's scandal about whether or not Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani misused city funds while Mayor of New York has taken a serious toll on his candidacy. Appearing on the program Fox News Sunday, Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes, both of the conservative Weekly Standard, suggested the Giuliani campaign is in trouble.

"Bill, I've come to the conclusion that any story that begins 'presidential candidate' and 'girlfriend are not good," host Chris Wallace said to his panelist.

"No, and when the follow-up story in the New York press is that, in fact, New York City police chauffeured around Judith Nathan - she was Rudy Giuliani's girlfriend or mistress but certainly not yet married to him in 2000 or 2001 - that's not good either. It was a very tough week for Giuliani. I think his path to the nomination is very problematic," Kristol told Wallace. Kristol also cited Rudy's recent decline in Iowa, New Hampshire and National polls - all before the story of alleged misuse of city funds broke on Thursday.

Weekly Standard executive editor and regular Fox commentator Fred Barnes agreed that Giuliani should be worried about his showing in the early primaries, now only a month away, due to concerns Republican voters may have about his character.

"All this book-keeping stuff aside, this flap right now is all about having an extra-marital affair fairly recently," Barnes said. "In Rudy Giuliani's case, I think that's what comes through to people and not all the questions about an American Express card and all that stuff. It's about that affair."

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Kristol_Scandal_makes_Giuliani_nomination_problematic_1202.html

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Let them run a far rw nutjob like huckster instead.

[Kahuna]

2. tee hee.

:popcorn:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

3. Now Reverend Giggles will say Barnes and Kristol are in league with Satan

Which may will be his most accurate statement ever. :rofl:

[eleny]

8. Reverend Giggles!

:rofl:

[acmavm]

4. Sheesh, I would have expected more outrage from these two members

of the pecker police.

[yourout]

6. LMAO....."pecker police"

Good thing I was not drinking when I read that.

[Cha]

7. The "pecker police" only

come out when it's a Dem who's pecking around.

[Cha]

5. kritol is such an A$$hole..

"problematic", eh? With a Free Press it would bury the sob under tons of shit.

And ol' barnes thinks it about "the affair" and not about the funds rudy appropriated for judy and her dog? When he should have been buying radios for the Firemen of New York City?

"Spazito (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-02-07 05:14 PM
Response to Reply #18
20. I was thinking more of the firemen who are opposed to rudy being the ones able to...
put forward such an ad rather than the Dems. There was at least one article recently that stated the firemen of NY were adamantly opposed to rudy and were prepared to do ads, etc, explaining the TRUTH about 9/11 and what happened to their fellow rescuers because of rudy's lack of action.

I found this article which relates to the firemen of NY and rudy:

Firemen douse Rudy’s image as 9/11 hero
Union bid to halt White House run

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The firefighters were still using the antiquated “handie-talkie” radios that failed to work during the 1993 bombing of the twin towers, when Giuliani was also mayor. He not only failed to replace them, but also located the city’s new emergency command centre at the World Trade Center against the advice of key officials. It proved useless when it was most needed.

Lack of communication also meant that warnings from police helicopters about an imminent collapse failed to get through."

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_amer...

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