Giuliani: Democrats cheat as often as Republicans

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Giuliani: Democrats cheat as often as Republicans

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/24/giuliani-democrats-cheat-as-often-as-republicans/

Former New York mayor and presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani offered a roundabout defense of disgraced Republican South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford — and Republicans as a whole — on Fox News Wednesday.

“This has happened just as often in the Democratic Party,” Giuliani told Fox’s Neil Cavuto. “These problems of romance, sexuality, et cetera, are not confined to Republicans or Democrats or independents.”

Giuliani is no stranger to these matters. His political life suffered some severe blows over the years due to marital infidelity. His messy divorce and subsequent remarriage were dragged into the spotlight during the 2008 presidential campaign, when questions arose over why New York City had picked up the tab for his security detail while he was involved in an affair with his current wife, Judith Nathan.

On Fox News Wednesday, Giuliani offered compassion to Gov. Sanford, who earlier in the day admitted to an extra-marital affair with an Argentinian woman.

[alsame]

1. The perfect spokesman for

family values and marital fidelity. :rofl:

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Jesus H. Christ, is he still an asshole, or what?

Typical Ru911dy.

[ControlledDemolition]

47. Everyone needs to take a real close look at Rudy... as they do Jack Ruby!!! n/t

[Bicoastal]

3. Yes, Rudy, but few of them do it as often as you do.

[nilram]

16. Yeah, Rudy does bring up the average on the R side

[Beaverhausen]

4. clueless as always

there's so much hipocrisy there it's hard to know where to start.

[marmar]

5. From Rudy "My Wife is Near Death but Let's Bang" Giuliani?

Priceless.

[Cha]

40. Wasn't that newt ginchich?

rudy just brought her into the mansion when his wife was still there.

[Happyhippychick]

6. Yes but they don't claim to be the party of FAMILY VALUES who want to tell the rest of us what is

moral.

So suck it 9iu11ani

[crazylikafox]

17. bingo

[ControlledDemolition]

46. I raise your 'bingo' to infinity! n/t

[Dappleganger]

28. +1

[HughMoran]

42. That's the most galling part of listening to these buffoons

You want to scream at them "It's the hypocrisy, stupid!"

:)

[Missy Vixen]

7. Au contraire, Giu911liani

Democrats may cheat, but they don't position themselves as the "family friendly", "moral" party.

They also don't seem to get caught with their pants down as much as the GOP does.

LMAO.

:rofl:

[beaglelover]

8. But we don't run as the Party of Family Values (nt)

.

[ejpoeta]

9. here's the problem rudy... do you mind if i call you rudy....?

see, the democrats don't go around preaching family values and trying to tell people what marriage is supposed to be and who should be married. democrats don't go around claiming to be these great purveyors of moral values. there is the difference. they aren't the ones going around trying to claim that the gays are destroying the sanctity of marriage. while they are schtooping their secretary. they don't go claiming to be holier than thou telling everyone else what marriage is and should be and who should and shouldn't be married while they are cheating on their spouse... or married three times. so fu rudy. go f yourself.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. The big difference, of course,

is that Democrats are far less likely than Republicans to have bloviated piously and at great length about The Sanctity of Marriage (between a man and a woman, of course) before being discovered with their zippers down.

[Orangepeel]

11. Maybe. But they're less likely to be pontificating about the "sanctity of marriage" while doing it

[Cleita]

12. He's probably right, but I don't ever remember Democrats impeaching a

President for it.

[Arkana]

13. Well, Rudy, you're hardly in a position to talk about morality, Mr. Fourth Wife or whatever.

[graywarrior]

14. YOU are!

No, YOU are!

No YOU!

No YOU!

:spank:

[nilram]

15. But do they go AWOL as often? Without a security detail?

Without telling other responsible parties (like, say Lieutenant Gov's) where they've gone? This seems bigger than lying about sex, even under oath. Jeeze.

[and-justice-for-all]

18. “This has happened just as often in the Democratic Party,”??

I doubt that. I mean, I am sure it happens, but not so clock work like as with the repuke hypocrites.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. ORLY?

OK, there was Clinton and Elliot Spitzer and John Edwards. Even apart from the industrial-strength hypocrisy, the Democrats don't seem to have as many -- shall we say -- exotic escapades as Republicans. I don't remember hearing about any Democrats getting arrested for solicitation in airport mens' rooms, or cavorting in diapers with hookers, or sending lurid e-mails to underage House pages, or suddenly jetting off to Argentina to do the horizontal tango with a mistress.

Sure, Democrats cat around, too. But they usually aren't as weird and icky about it.

[frogmarch]

19. But it's the repukes who

are the hypocrites, with their "family values" crock of bullshit.

[Fumesucker]

20. I don't recall a Dem getting caught in a diaper, or two wet suits either.. n/t

[lindisfarne]

23. Ok. I've obviously not keeping up with the scandals. Who was caught in diapers? n/t

[Fumesucker]

27. That would be Senator David Vitter (R-Depends)

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/56689/

[Hippo_Tron]

22. Yes, Giuliani except that Democrats don't impeach people for it

Your party on the other hand, not so much...

[NNN0LHI]

24. I don't recall any Democratic Senators being arrested in any public restrooms?

We had that happen to two Republicans within days of each other.

Don

[Initech]

25. Besides Clinton, name 20.

[Webster Green]

26. It's not even close, Rudy.

Let's do a two column list, shall we?

I can imagine the lopsided results of that effort. :rofl:

[MadBadger]

29. 1 Rudy equals a Spitzer and a McGreevy

[no_hypocrisy]

30. Query: Did Rudy cheat when he was a democrat as well?

Guess that was with his first wife.

[blogslut]

31. Oh, Rudy!

You're adorable! Now, tell us the one about how you saved America on 9/11!

[Cha]

32. Wah WahWAH..we don't take responsibility..

we blame Democrats.

[Liberal_in_LA]

33. Maybe Guiliani can form a support group

[bullwinkle428]

34. That mudderfugger would be hiding under a rock right now if he had an ounce of shame!

:mad:

[backscatter712]

35. Even assuming that was true, as least we're not hypocrites about it.

I don't see Democrats constantly howling about homosexuality, then getting caught hitting on other men tapping feet in airport bathroom stalls.

I don't see Democrats demanding abstinence-only sex education for kids, then having their own kids becoming teen mothers.

You get the general idea...

[Cha]

39. That's right..anytime a Dem "cheats" ..he or

she is not being a hypocrite..so that needs to be thrown back into rudytootie's face.

[BlooInBloo]

36. I couldn't read any of that. My web page just filled with irony.

[Ikonoklast]

37. God that man is stupid.

Why would he even open his pie-hole about a subject which he is so intimately acquainted, i.e. marital infidelity?

Does he go by the credo "even bad publicity is still publicity"?

Rudy must either be entirely tone-deaf, or completely lacking in the irony department.

[Marr]

38. You can't have it both ways.

You can't say you're morally superior, then say "the other guys do it, too!" when you get caught doing something immoral. You either have a higher standard or you do not. And judging by the speed at which the Republicans began circling the wagons to *praise* Sanford for his actions, I'd say it's very clear that they do not.

[Froward69]

41. YEAH Rudy

but WE do not profess to be the moral authority party either.

I just about blasted about cross dressing Rudy, but realize I would have offended others not deserving of the insult)

so just suffice to say, FUCK YOU RUDY (9-11) Gulianni.

[checks-n-balances]

43. Look who's talking!

Hey, man, don't get the vapors over it!

[Kickin_Donkey]

44. Another case of GOPper projection

[havocmom]

45. Then why does FAUX have to put D after the names of cheatin Rs?

They are tryin to make it LOOK like even stevens, but it's about the family values crammed down everyone's throats by cheatin Rs that really stink up politics.

Shove your family values, Rudy, YOU of all people.