Rudy Giuliani's Campaign Transformation

Nice guys may not finish first, but it helps with voters. The NY Times' Michael Powell looks at Rudy Giuliani's evolution from mayor to presidential candidate and the shift in style he's had to take. For instance, more smiling, less snarling!

Powell has been covering Giuliani for the past 15 years and includes observations about Giuliani's body language, style (no more combover!), and rhetoric. A NY Times video that has clips of Mayor Rudy and Candidate Rudy is also excellent, because you hear Powell's thoughts about how presidential wanna-be Rudy is much like 1993 mayoral wanna-be Rudy. And then there are gems like this:

In Atlanta, Mr. Giuliani offers to take questions, and a stout blond woman in a red pantsuit shoots straight up, raising her hand and nearly shouting, “I think you are sooooo handsome.”

(In 1994, a woman in Queens translated the same compliment into New Yorkese; she peered carefully at Mr. Giuliani and acknowledged, “You look a lot better in person.”)

And no story about Giuliani's behavior is complete without a reference to the ferret enthusiast Giuliani was horrified by. Of course, Giuliani has been his most charming when he's mocking his pit bull, pseudo-Fascist nuttiness. For instance, this Saturday Night Live bit about graffiti:

Photograph of Giuliani at a Vermont campaign stop last week by Toby Talbot/AP

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By Jen Chung in News on May 29, 2007 5:54 PM

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Ron Holland

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christopher

And by all definitions Rudy is a fascist. The man admitted he wished he could destroy most of the Bill of Rights (just ONE example of thousands). Sheesh. Why do Republicans hate America so much?

christopher

I want ONE SINGLE Rudy "fan" to say they support Rudy doubling NYC's debt with his unprecedented spending. ANd how about him giving himself a 50% pay raise (two $30,000 raises combined!), the City Council a 75% pay hike (after Rudy called them worthless hacks?! Hm!) and his mistress and cronies up to 300% pay hikes. In fact, I bet you cannot find me one taxpayer who likes Rudy ONCE THEY FIND OUT THE TRUE FACTS OF THIS CRIMINAL. He's the white David Dinkins, only dumber and more cowardly. (C'mon, people, Rudy couldn't face his bald head until he was 59 years old! No one is more insecure than this tiny man.) Why do Republicans think politicians don't lie? Because they were born naive. (Con-servatives are also the ones who told us the earth was flat and that the earth was the center of the universe. See any pattern yet?) Time to grow up, folks. Rudy is the biggest crook in US history.

you're boring too

I don't know, Tim and Toby seem pretty clear to me. I don't see a lot of points coming from the other side.

Oh I am not saying they are unclear. I am saying they are repetitive and irrelevent. It offers nothing intelligent or insightful and it blocks real discussion of serious issues.

god you're boring

I don't know, Tim and Toby seem pretty clear to me. I don't see a lot of points coming from the other side.

lois griffin 4 mayor

what will you do about crime?

NINE...................ELEVEN.

from "it takes a village idiot, and I married one".

Season five, episode seventeen.

by the way Rudy, how's your relationship with your kids? are they campaigning with you?

please stop posting

Keep voting your fears, fools.

Tim N once again misses the point. If you had any less brain power you would stop breathing.

Ared

Can someone at Gothamist please lookup the word "fascist"? I mean, calling people you don't like (ie, parents) fascists stopped being acceptable at around the age of 12.

Maybe obscene misuses of words like fascist and racist are the reasons these words have lost all meaning.

Tim N.

Ladies and gentlemen, a nice round of applause for Rudy and his Trolls, singing their #1 smash, "Save us Rudy, We're So Scared!"

Keep voting your fears, fools.

get a life

#7 is the Village Idiot because if you picked up a newspaper once in a while and didn't post anti-Giuliani rants on Gothamist all day you might actually know what his positions are. Not saying you have to agree with him.

it takes a village idiot

Nine...........eleven.

what will you do about crime?

Nine............eleven.

what about the immigration problem?

Nine.............eleven.

And what are you going to do so students get an education?

Nine...........eleven.

oy

This is much more Presidential:

www.michaeltotten.com/archives...

zach

Political sentiments aside, Rudy looks unbelievably creepy when he laughs. Look at that face. Is that the face of a president? I think not.

toby is a loser

You Rudy haters are like a bunch of parrots squawking the same thing over and over. Next time try to make an actual comment on the Presidential campaign. Oh wait, that would require thinking.