COULD THE United States actually elect as president a Yankee fan who has been rooting for the Red Sox? A father whose own children would boycott his inauguration? A husband whose first wife was his cousin and whose current wife can't remember how many times she married? Could the United States, for that matter, elect a cross-dresser? The Rudy Giuliani surge would be comic if its broader implications were not so grave.

The best part is that it will be the Republicans who elect all that, and not the Democrats with their much-vaunted and much-flaunted "tolerance."

While Obama frets about "values voters" and Clinton worries over whether women will warm up to her, Giuliani is out there living a real life. His humanity is attractive in the same way that President Bush's folksy charm was attractive in the 2000 and 2004 campaigns in contrast to Gore's woodenness and Kerry's Lurch impression.

If we can't ignore this minor PR glitch does that mean TL will focus on Hillary's campaign finance questions, her loveless marriage for political gain, her sudeen residency in NY state so she could get elected etc...

No we won't because this is simple partisan bickering where we hold the other side to a much higher standard.

No we won't because this is simple partisan bickering where we hold the other side to a much higher standard.

the republicans do have standards. really, really low standards, but standards nonetheless. they seem but a mere blip on the screen. what's worse is that they aren't even very entertaining. by god, if i'm to go, i must be fed!

the only repubican candidate with only one marriage is mitt romney. probably something about those magic undies, and the fact that he's just as big a crackpot as the rest of them.

i find it amusing that the clintons, having gone through some very public difficult times in their marriage, still managed to keep it together, and get pilloried for it by the social "conservatives". of course, this goes with those "red state" stats, showing they have the highest divorce rate in the country. so much for "family values".

Still I can't help but get a chuckle that Guiliani is the GOP frontrunner.  I love it!  The nominee of the party of people who were complaining about books like Heather Has Two Mommies will be pro-abortion and pro-gay.  Its a win-win situation for Democrats.    

Doesn't anyone remember the video footage of him running like a scared little girl up Church Street with a dust mask clamped to his face?

Giuliani's tenure in NYC was to make the most liberal city in America into a fascist police state.  And he succeeded.  Bloomberg has continued Giuliani's inhumane policies, but not to such an extreme degree.