Guiliani

[dazzleman]

He's on his third wife.

I don't know much about his first marriage.

His second marriage was to Donna Hanover.  It was essentially a sham for quite some time before he publicly announced that he would divorce her in 2000 after she humiliated him by appearing in the "The Vagina Monologues," a racy feminazi play.

He was rumored to have been having an affair with his communications director long before that, and by then he was seeing the woman to whom he is now married, Judy (Nathan) Giuliani.

It's not a history that will go over well in the south, even though the rates of divorce there are higher than those up north.

[dazzleman]

Giuliani is definitely not a RINO.

The spectacularly successful policies that he adopted as mayor of NYC, especially with respect to fighting crime and returning a sense of civility to daily life in the city, were singularly Republican.  No Democrat would ever have carried them out.  And proof of their success was that the Democrats and some of their most favored constituencies tagged Giuliani's policies as "racist."

Giuliani cracked down hard on crime, taking a zero tolerance approach to the quality of life crimes to which Democrats had turned a blind eye for years.  He also pushed tough welfare reform, opposed by Democrats, and sought to contain the growth of city government.

These are all staple Republican policies, and they worked beautifully, bringing the city back almost from the dead.  Giuliani is definitely not a RINO.

At this point, Pataki is pretty close to being a RINO, but not Giuliani.

[dazzleman]

I'll add that the mistress, Judith Nathan, was basically cohabitating with him in Gracie Mansion before his divorce was finalized.

Not really true.  Giuliani's wife Donna Hanover lived in Gracie Mansion, while Rudy lived in an apartment with a friend in Queens.