Rudy and the Monsignor
Tuesday October 23, 2007
Categories: Republicans
Rudy Giuliani continues to employ a Roman Catholic priest who has been accused of molesting teen boys, and who was suspended by his bishop because of the accusations. A grand jury found enough evidence to indict Msgr Alan Placa on...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Wow! Good thing Giuliani is "tough on crime".
With friends like this, who needs Rudy!
Good heavens, that is disgusting. Not withstanding other reasons to be leary of the Guliani campaign, I don't think I could pull the lever for anyone who knowingly kept a man like that on his payroll.
How do these priests earn that much money, anyway? I always remember this stuff when the Church starts asking for money. I tell my wife: give our charitable donations to the Chinese orphans or the victims of natural disasters. Let the Church get their money from all that property that "Christ's represenatives on earth" seem to own.
Can someone please direct me to a Manhattan penthouse apartment that costs a half-million dollars?! I'd very much like to buy it.
Even apart from this story, Giuliani is the worst candidate of either party, the seamless shroud candidate, the logical choice for president for the culture of death.
I wouldn't vote for him if the other candidate was Satan. (No, I wouldn't vote for the Devil; I'd abstain from casting a ballot, like I did the last two presidential elections).
But watch most of the religious right line up behind him if he runs against the latest anti-Christ, Hilary the Beast.
Besides, he cleaned up Dodge, right? And boy, is he ever against "Islamofascism". (Right Rod?)
For Mr G, every day is 9/11, the Day Rod Was There, and if you don't vote for him, the boogie woman will get you!
By the time the election comes, there won't be a candidate left who anyone will vote for.
Yeah, I wasn't too crazy about reading a Boston Globe article about how Mike Huckabee, when he was governor of Arkansas, endorsed the parole of a rapist who then went on to sexually assault and murder a woman.
www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/10/14/huckabee_could_face_hurdles_from_the_past/
... my wife and I refer to G. as the "anti-Catholic" candidate. We can't think of one thing he agrees with the Church on.
Well maybe keeping a lid on the sex scandal...
Oh No! Mayor Giuliani supports the idea that Americans are innocent until proven guilty! How awful!
Give me a break. A "grand jury report" is about as indicative of guilt as is an article on Page Six in the New York Post.
Yecch.
For purely political self-preservation (let alone doing the right thing), why can't Rudy overcome his arrogance and let this guy walk the plank? Or maybe I just answered my own question ...
As someone not the least 'afraid' of Hillary Clinton, I'm noting that the word on the (GOP) political street is that Giuliani is THE man who can beat her. Guess the 'reasoning' is that Rudy has no 'baggage'.
It looks like it will be Rudy and Hillary. These two are not so different as one may think.
I will stay home on election day, barring any 3rd party candidate I like, thereby helping to elect Hillary.
What happens after that is anyones guess. All I know is that the elites have decided she is acceptable as well as Rudy is. All this other stuff is just noise.
I doubt Rudy will be the GOP nominee, but if he is, he won't beat Hillary.
If Hillary is the Democratic nominee, the general election will be MUCH closer than many people now seem to think. The key for a Republican to win in that contest will be to come across to the public as a nice, decent person. An ultracombative character such as Rudy will only generate sympathy for Mrs. Clinton among swing voters and tip the election to her.
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