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Michael Wolff in Vanity Fair: "Crazy for Rudy"

The June issue of Vanity Fair has an article by Michael Wolff (free link) on "Crazy for Rudy." Shorter version: He may be nuts.

Wolff writes that almost anyone who’s ever worked for Rudy Giuliani expects his presidential campaign to implode at any moment, thanks to his propensity for periods of mania, outbursts, and frequent forms of behavior that generally don’t win elections.

Bernard Kerik, his frosty relationship with his children, his famous smackdown of a listener (and ferret owner) who called in during his radio show, Judith Giuliani’s stint at a medical company that experimented on live dogs (killing them in the process), the list goes on—there are plenty of past deeds that may block his path to the White House.

But what is it about Rudy that makes him so compelling? Wolff opines that the consensus among people who know him best is that, “He is nuts, actually mad.” And Wolff argues that maybe that’s just what he needs to win. After all, he writes, “You can better trust a crazy man, lacking normal artifice and equivocations, not to sh*t you.”

I'd rather see his campaign implode. I don't think you can trust a crazy man, I think you need to beware of him and watch him like a hawk, which I have no doubt, the liberal blogs will do.

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    picking apart Guiliani (5.00 / 1) (#4)
    by Coyoteville on Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 05:00:12 PM EST
    "No issue is out of bounds for picking apart Giuliani."

    I agree wholeheartedly. Rudy! combines the worst aspects of Nixon and of Shrub. His "will to power" is REALLY scary.

    It was perfectly legal for him to marry his second cousin; it is against Catholic rules tho', which is what allowed him his "out" (and annulment) from that marriage.

    This is intelligent conversation (1.00 / 1) (#1)
    by HeadScratcher on Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 02:39:00 PM EST
    There are a vast array of reasons not to vote for Rudy based on policies.

    Don't debase the debate by using a  psychological diagnosis that hasn't treated the "patient" nor is being done by a shrink.

    Just pick apart his policies, there's so much wealth there

    Mr. Family Values Quality of Life (none / 0) (#3)
    by squeaky on Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 03:34:29 PM EST
    Focused on everyones personal life.

    No issue is out of bounds for picking apart Giuliani.

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