Giuliani in Drag, and Leather, and Fur, and Pearls… A Compendium

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This is horrifying but also kind of awesome. It’s a Slate sideshow of all of Rudy Giuliani’s moments playing dress up — as a crack addict, a greaser, the beast from Beauty and the Beast, and most commonly, a woman. Check it out.

Combine all this with the also horrifying but kind of awesome “ferret moment” from Rudy’s radio show and you get the sense that Rudy is a guy who either didn’t intend to run for president before 9/11 vaulted him to the national stage, or he did intend to run for president but didn’t give a damn and insisted on living his life the way he wanted to live it. Which is kind of refreshing. His current reversals on all the positions he staked out in that carefree period, however, are not so endearing.

Update: While you’re over there at Slate, take a look at this detailed dissection of Rudy’s truly disastrous private life (three marriages, ugly and public divorces, adultery, and multiple estranged kids — that enough?). Writes Slate, “It’s not only the religious or the uptight that can be put off by an utter lack of personal morality in a presidential candidate.”

Late Update: I feel bad calling Rudy’s private life “truly disastrous.” Who am I to judge? What say you? Is judging candidates on their private lives part of presidential politics? A legitimate evaluation of a man or woman’s character, or part of the sordid underbelly of our political system? Leave thoughts in the comments…

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