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Thursday, August 16, 2007

“Leave my family alone.”

posted by on August 16 at 13:55 PM

Rudy Guiliani can dish it out but bitch can’t take it. Rudy’s son is estranged from him—they barely speak—and his daughter supports Barack Obama. And someone had the nerve to ask Rudy about it on the campaign trail today.

Answering questions at a town-hall meeting, Giuliani was asked why he should expect loyalty from GOP voters when his children aren’t backing him.

“I love my family very, very much and will do anything for them. There are complexities in every family in America,” Giuliani said calmly and quietly. “The best thing I can say is kind of, ‘leave my family alone, just like I’ll leave your family alone.’”

His offer doesn’t apply, of course, to gay families. In an effort to make himself more appealing to the gay-hating nuts in the GOP base (it may be all they have left), Guiliani reversed his position on civil unions earlier this week. The man that lived with a gay couple while he divorced his second wife—the mother of the children that despise him so much—no longer supports civil unions that are “the equivalent of marriage.” Because that would come uncomfortably close to, shit, equality for same-sex couples. Can’t have that, not in America.

Because some families should be left alone (families like Rudy’s), and some should be marginalized and discriminated against and oppressed (families like mine).

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If I was Rudy I sure as hell would not want to talk about my family either.

But if he is not man enough to talk about his family he is not man enough to take on the terrorists.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | August 16, 2007 2:00 PM
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well put, but good luck convincing said gay hating nuts. They don't tend to let logic get in the way of a good lynching.

Posted by Mike in MO | August 16, 2007 2:01 PM
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so he DID backpedal on his pro-gay stance. i was waiting for that one. wonder when he's going to flip-flop his position [flip-flop positions. heh.] on government-funded abortions?

Posted by brandon | August 16, 2007 2:04 PM
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"Nothing says 'Family' like marrying your cousin, getting your pedophile priest friend to annul it, marrying somebody else, carrying on public affairs with various floozies while your shamed wife is in the New York mayor’s mansion, holding a press conference to announce you’re divorcing your wife and mother of your children, enraging your kids to the point that they never speak to you again, and then marrying some nutty whore and running for the president of terrorism."

http://wonkette.com/politics/dept%27-of-manson-family-values/rudy-wants-you-to-forget-that-his-kids-hate-him--are-voting-for-obama-290236.php

Posted by Original Andrew | August 16, 2007 2:08 PM
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Why isn't he serving?

Uh huh ... thought so.

Coward!

Posted by Will in Seattle | August 16, 2007 2:32 PM
6

The Penguin

Posted by monkey | August 16, 2007 2:53 PM
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your link to "reversed his position on civil unions earlier this week" points to the breitbart article about today's forum.

Posted by josh | August 16, 2007 3:11 PM
8

You're boring. These posts are too long.

Posted by Yawn | August 16, 2007 3:24 PM
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That sound you hear? The dull, slow roar?

Is the sound of his campaign slowly imploding.

Note to Dems: This man is defining "flip flopping". Someone, get on this shit. Kthxbi.

Posted by Patrick Erwin | August 16, 2007 3:42 PM
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It totally baffles me that the fundies continue support these "do as I say, not as I do" Republicans, starting with Reagan (divorced, estranged children). Come on, if you're going to impose your so-called values on the rest of us, shouldn't it start at the top at least?

Posted by chris | August 16, 2007 3:51 PM
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9/11

Posted by j in sea | August 16, 2007 3:55 PM
12

Mr Giuliani,

Thank you for leaving my family alone. I'm please to know that you won;t invade my privacy when it comes to birth control and.. sir? hey Rudy, RUDY !I'm still talking!

Posted by Mariana | August 16, 2007 4:37 PM
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Dan: You're not playing by Fox News' gamebook are you??? "Accidental" misinformation? Your link does not link to an article about Guiliani reversing his position on civil unions. I've also never heard this before. Please don't play such games. We need facts; not hearsay or rumors. That's the republican gameplan; we're better people and more informed. Help us to stay that way.

Posted by derwood | August 17, 2007 11:39 AM
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Here is a link to an article I read about Guiliani reversing his position on civil unions:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/08/13/giuliani_continues_his_conservative_shift/

Posted by John Wright | August 20, 2007 8:18 AM

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