After the bumpiest week of his campaign so far, Rudy Giuliani is pushing back – telling reporters, in effect, to keep my wife out of it.
The campaign has weathered a few Judith Giuliani eruptions in recent weeks, including revelations that she had a previously unknown third husband. Now there’s even a Bran-gelina style moniker kicking around on the Web – “Rudith” – a sure sign that the Giuliani’s are now lodged in the gossip pages for good, not a place a guy running for president wants to be.
So Giuliani told reporters to back off the missus. “Attack me all you want,” he said outside Yankee Stadium. “There's plenty to attack me about. Please do it. But, you know, maybe show a little decency.”
Of course, it was Giuliani’s campaign that decided to send his wife into an interview with Barbara Walters last week in hopes of showing the couple in the best light. But it was in that interview where Rudy Giuliani said he’d be “very, very comfortable” having Judith sit in on Cabinet meetings. That set off howls among some conservatives who feared a lurking Hillary Clinton-like, two-for-one presidency.
Craig Gordon
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the least that Conservatives should be concerned about is his wife being at meetings. What about his platform, he is more liberal than Hillary.
And now the REAL Rudy emerges -- the thin-skinned, belligerent control freak. Rudy is about to learn that he doesn't control the scrutiny of the press in a presidential campaign.
All's fair in politics. Deal with it, Rudith.