Rudy Giuliani's Vulnerabilities

[CatWoman]

Secret study cited "weirdness factor" among candidate weaknesses

FEBRUARY 12--As he campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination, Rudolph Giuliani will have to contend with political and personal baggage unknown to prospective supporters whose knowledge of the former New York mayor is limited to his post-September 11 exploits. So, in a bid to educate the electorate, we're offering excerpts from a remarkable "vulnerability study" that was commissioned by Giuliani's campaign prior to his successful 1993 City Hall run.

The confidential 450-page report, authored by Giuliani's research director and another aide, was the campaign's attempt to identify possible lines of attack against Giuliani and prepare the candidate and his staff to counter "the kinds of no-holes-barred assault" expected in a general election rematch with Democratic incumbent David Dinkins. As he tried to win election in an overwhelmingly Democratic city, Giuliani needed "inoculating against" the "Reagan Republican moniker," the vulnerability study reported. "The Giuliani campaign should emphasize its candidate's independence from traditional national Republican policies." The final six words of that sentence are underlined in the study.

Additionally, the Giuliani report noted that the candidate needed to make it clear to voters that he was "pretty good on most issues of concern to gay and lesbian New Yorkers" and was pro-choice and supported public funding for abortion. "He will continue city funding for abortions at city hospitals. Nothing more, nothing less." Giuliani's stance on these issues, of course, may leave him vulnerable today with an entirely different electorate. The campaign study was obtained by The Village Voice's Wayne Barrett in the course of preparing "Rudy!," an investigative biography of Giuliani. In its preface, the study notes that it is "tough and hard-hitting. It pulls no punches." Perhaps that is why Giuliani, as Barrett reported, ordered copies of the vulnerability study destroyed shortly after it was circulated to top campaign aides.



http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0212072giuliani1.html

[skipos]

1. Interesting.

[CatWoman]

2. Rudy is one butt fugly woman

:puke:

[Gabi Hayes]

3. did you know he was in Caracas, masquerading as a Chavista?

[CatWoman]

5. hi, Gabi

:hi:

:loveya:

I most certainly did!!! :)

[Gabi Hayes]

7. hey! Happy VD. and did you see this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=151710

and, from your link:

"The Giuliani campaign should emphasize its candidate's independence from traditional national Republican policies."

The final six words of that sentence are underlined in the study. Additionally, the Giuliani report noted that the candidate needed to make it clear to voters that he was "pretty good on most issues of concern to gay and lesbian New Yorkers" and was pro-choice and supported public funding for abortion.

[CatWoman]

11. well, I want to see what the wingnuts think about him

marrying his cousin.

fucking pervert.

Happy VD to you, too!!

:hi:

[Gabi Hayes]

12. they were saying very similar things about Chimpy in 1999, including

JimRob

that said, some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen is on this thread:

wait a minute, til I find it....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771175/posts

you can't parody this sort of thing:

If a man won’t risk his own life to secure our national borders, he is NOT a conservative. If he believes more in the power of the federal government than the free people it is to represent, he is NOT a conservative. If he is not a capitalist, he is NOT a conservative. If he believes in some government issued greater communal good instead of individual liberty and freedom, he is NOT a conservative. If he trusts the UN more than the US, he isn’t very smart and he is NOT a conservative.

If he thinks France, Russia, Iran, Syria or North Korea is our friend, he is NOT a conservative. If he is an isolationist in this dangerous world that requires strong American leadership, he is NOT a conservative. If he does not hold life as a sacred gift worthy of protection, he is NOT a conservative. If he prefers imaginary constitutional rights over the written constitutional rights, he is NOT a conservative.

If he thinks that marriage is anything less than a God sanctioned union between one man and one woman, he is NOT a conservative. If he is willing to confiscate private earnings, property and resources to grow government for the greater communal good, he is NOT a conservative. If he is willing to send our troops into harms way without full unfettered support and a deep commitment to victory, he is NOT a conservative. If he does not know the difference between legal and illegal immigration and care, then he is NOT a conservative.

And if he lacks the spine to confront his enemies, he is NOT a conservative. He’s not even a man!

[Gabi Hayes]

13. I love the last sentence....you have to be a MAN to be a.....

conservative

no week-kneed, lily livered

WOMEN allowed

I guess that means YOU, CW.

[CatWoman]

14. lol

nooooooooooooooooo................... :)

[HockeyMom]

15. He's got nice legs though

Appeared with the Rockettes once. Wish I had the link.


:rofl:

[sam sarrha]

4. is a bat chit crazy play ground bully attitude a weakness

[Gabi Hayes]

6. like it was for Bush? everybody's forgetting how much the M$M LOVES Amerika's Mayor.

just wait

they will brook NO bad tidings about him

just watch

[RiverStone]

8. Can't see him getting past the red state south...

Giuliani would probably be more competitive then many other rethugs against our DEM nominee (we'd still kick his ass) - but I can't imagine him getting past the rightwing fundamentalist rethug neocons. Particularly in the red south primaries - this pro-choice rethug will be stopped there, if he even makes it that far.

[Justitia]

9. Oh brother, can we have a moratorium on quoting from "The Art of War"? How overwrought. -eom

[C_U_L8R]

10. The Art of War?

Right there is his vulnerability... ain't no trick to Sun Tzu.
Hahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahhahaa

[CatWoman]

16. BWAHAHAHAHA

Keith on Countdown just mentioned this study!!

:rofl: