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Originally Posted by TAPPY
I dont remember the whole story...but was he not really nasty (in a public way) to his first wife (and kids) during his divorce....and now all of a sudden he thinks everything about his current rift with his son be kept private ???
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His first marriage was like "swamp yankee" bizarre -- married a second cousin, then that marriage was annuled by the Catholic Church when Giuliani became infatuated with Donna Hanover and proposed to her after a 6-week courtship.
The kids are the product of his marriage with Donna Hanover, I thought. The NY Times had a long article about how Giuliani's kids will most pointedly NOT be campaigning for Daddy. Son is at Duke, and wants to devote his time to developing a career as a professional golfer. Daughter is at Harvard, would not comment for the article.
The way he handled the divorce from Hanover was simply appalling -- absolutely brutal, and designed to humiliate Hanover. I think the assumption at the time was that he was on the brink of a nervous breakdown, what with the prostate cancer, the Senate run he gave up, pressure from angry minority groups. But this is a guy who doesn't think twice about chopping any opposition off at the knees.
Hopefully, Giuliani is just a flavor du jour for a desperate Rep party. An interesting article in Time or Newsweek showed some polls they had taken. Most conservative Republicans knew nothing about Giuliani's view on several "red meat" issues -- gun control, same-sex unions, abortion -- with the point being that if they knew about those views, they would see that they are diametrically opposed to the conservative republicans'.
I see Mick Huckabee coming up on the outside. If the Republicans went with Chuck Hagel, I think that would be their smartest move.