Just because someone joins a facebook group doesn’t mean that they support that candidate for president, or reject another.

As far as his children go. You have no idea what their Mother has done to bitter these children against Rudy. Actually her personality could be the reason that Rudy divorced her. I don’t know the woman, and I know that this is all speculation, but I consider any comments about how the children won’t support their Father is just as much speculation. It is a trap that we as outsiders should not fall into. – Lorica

Yes nobody is perfect. In Bill’s case he should’ve been held accountable under the civil case. That was the root of the issue. The case. He perjured himself so as not to be held accountable by the law. He has been disbarred. Should he have been removed from the presidency? That’s the big question. To me Democrats could’ve/should’ve had Clinton step aside for Gore to be president and a much different future would’ve taken place.

Oh well.. back to my point if nobody is held accountable for ANY wrong doing and the two candidates are Guliani and Hillary – as I said it’ll be Guliani. Lord knows Hillary should be held accountable for her role in about 10 things…. There is a case against her right now where Hugh Hewitt interviewed the plaintiff.

Sis, I’m sorry, but when your own children (one of whom is an adult, and the other of whom will achieve majority within a year) won’t support you on something like this, there’s really something wrong.

“Those of us (and that certainly includes me) who excoriated President Clinton for his personal behavior cannot simply turn a blind eye to the personal life of Rudy Giuliani, simply because he’s a Republican; that’s nothing but hypocrisy.”

- Thats certainly true IF you equate a love affair that everyone in NY knew about with diddling White House interns, and molesting several woman, and then lying about it to the entire nation on network television. Somewhere in there I think theres a small imbalance.

- BBH –

Those of us (and that certainly includes me) who excoriated President Clinton for his personal behavior cannot simply turn a blind eye to the personal life of Rudy Giuliani, simply because he’s a Republican; that’s nothing but hypocrisy.

Who said anything about “turning a blind eye to the private life of Rudy Giuliani”? Not me. I’ve mentioned before (I think it was on a podcast) that he had personal baggage (like the affair he was having and the divorce from his wife) that would affect people’s opinions of him (it’s affected my opinion of him). There is a lot more to a candidate’s personal life than just his children. I’m not even a Rudy supporter and in fact listed him in my top five candidates who I hoped would not get the nomination, so I’m not defending him out of any sense of loyalty, either.

I wouldn’t have (and didn’t) judged President Clinton based on Chelsea Clinton back in the 90s and I certainly will not base my opinion of Rudy Giuliani based on the fact that his 17 year old daughter supports another candidate. I simply don’t like the fact that someone had to go digging through Facebook to find out this information – and I say ‘digging’ because Caroline had altered her last name so people wouldn’t immediately know it was her. Obviously this was done as a “gotcha” – and a cheap one at that – to the Giuliani family, and his daughter didn’t deserve to be used as a pawn.

If Rudy’s children absolutely detested him, then their may be a point to paying attention to what they say. But the person they don’t like is his wife, the woman he divorced their mother for. Obviously there’s some bitterness there, and it’s not bitterness I would hold against Rudy Giuliani in terms of his presidential qualifications.

I am absolutely against using the children of a candidate as a pawn in order to score a cheap political point. I was against it when John Edwards and John Kerry used Mary Cheney’s being a lesbian to score political points against Cheney, and I’m against Slate (and the gleeful left) using a 17 year old’s Facebook declaration of support for another candidate to score cheap political points against her father. I was also against Saturday Night Live’s making fun of Chelsea Clinton back when Clinton was president (although that wasn’t really done to score a political point) That’s not hypocrisy: that’s consistency, Dana.

Mr Giuliani and Mrs Hanover have two children together, one not mentioned in the story above a 21-year-old son. Both of Mr Giuliani’s children have said that they have no intention of helping their father’s campaign.

What does it say about a man, that his own children won’t support him in the greatest challenge of his life? Is this really the kind of man we’d want to be president?

Those of us (and that certainly includes me) who excoriated President Clinton for his personal behavior cannot simply turn a blind eye to the personal life of Rudy Giuliani, simply because he’s a Republican; that’s nothing but hypocrisy.