How Judi killed off Rudy Giuliani: "Enough political baggage to fill a Louis Vuitton trunk"

[DeepModem Mom]

NY Daily News: How Judi killed off Rudy Giuliani
BY HEIDI EVANS
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, January 31st 2008


Judith and Rudy Giuliani, after conceding the Florida Republican primary at his election headquarters in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. (CNN)

She brought enough political baggage to fill a Louis Vuitton trunk.

Indeed, part of Rudy Giuliani's presidential flameout can be traced back to his Judi -- the woman he fell for in a cigar bar in 1999 while he was the married mayor with a wife and two young children at home. "She was a major part of the reason for Giuliani's collapse," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "Rudy wanted to head up the 'family values' party, and Judi didn't fit that label. Even worse, Giuliani was estranged from his children. Their refusal to campaign for him spoke volumes to voters."

Among the low notes that brought national embarrassment to the one-time GOP frontrunner: her use of taxpayer-funded NYPD detectives as personal valets and chauffeurs while she was the mayor's mistress; revelations of a secret past marriage; and interrupting Giuliani's speech to the National Rifle Association with a cutesy cell phone call to say hi.

Mike McKeon, the campaign aide who was in charge of handling Mrs. Giuliani's national "roll-out" last March, said that despite her lack of campaign chops, she was an experienced public speaker who would remain on the trail. "Judith is nothing but an asset, and, as the campaign continues, she's going to be a larger and larger asset," he had said. "She'll be one of our key surrogates."

Never happened. Judith Giuliani was rolled back inside the campaign tent as fast as she was rolled out....

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Press accounts were not flattering either, describing the 53-year-old Hazleton, Pa., native as a social climber who liked to spend Giuliani's post-9/11 cash. In a Vanity Fair profile last fall, a Giuliani aide remarked that an "entire airplane seat was needed for Judith's 'Baby Louis' - a reference to her expensive Louis Vuitton handbag - which sits in solitary splendor on her travels."...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/01/31/2008-01-31_how_judi_killed_off_rudy_giuliani.html?print=1&page=all

[City Lights]

1. Rudy has enough baggage of his own to fill three trunks.

Disgusting that anyone would try to pin Rudy's flameout on his wife. Fuck Rudy.

[Eurobabe]

2. Social climber

But hang onto your Louis Vuitton, there's talk that Rudy might be McLame's VP. Sources told CNN Rudy wouldn't rule it out. :puke:

[zanne]

3. One word: Karma nt

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Enjoy your trip back to Scranton, Judi.

[Hart2008]

5. "Judith is nothing but an asset..." There are asses and then there are assets. n/t

[TexasObserver]

6. Two despicable humans who found each other - Rudy and Judy

UGH. They're puking material. Good riddance to both of them.

[speedoo]

7. While I can't disagree with Sabato when he says:

"She was a major part of the reason for Giuliani's collapse," .... the fact is that Rudy's "9/11 hero" bit was a facade exposed by the firefighters who knew the facts and exposed them, by Wayne Barrett who wrote the truth in his book(s) and by the crumbling reputation of the phony 9/11 commission.

And if Rudy is in fact not a 9/11 hero, he's just another punk rethug hack politician.