<img src=http://www.drudgereport.com/nyp.jpg> 'RUNNIN' MATES' JUDI 'N' RUDY AIM FOR '08 By STEPHANIE GASKELL and KATE SHEEHY February 6, 2007 -- Sexy Judi Giuliani is keeping a tight lip-lock on her hubby as he moved even closer yesterday to officially announcing his presidential bid. As his loyal missus bared some of the secrets of her marriage to "America's Mayor" in a candid new interview, Giuliani had his eyes on another prize. "We still have to formally announce it and do a few more things, but this about as close as you're going to get," Giuliani said on Fox News Channel's "Hannity and Colmes" last night - hours after filing federal "statement of candidacy" papers. "Today, we just took another step toward running for president," Giuliani added. "It's a big step, an important one. Asked on the show if he's "in to win," Giuliani said, "Gosh, yeah. I mean, that's the only reason to do it." Judi, 52, insisted that when her hubby takes the plunge, she won't mind playing second fiddle to his political ambitions - and she revealed the famously tough-as-nails former mayor's sensitive side. "I've always liked strong, macho men, and Rudy - I'm not saying this because he's my husband - is one of the smartest people on the planet," gushed the former Judith Nathan to Harper's Bazaar in editions due out Feb. 20. "What people don't know is that Rudy's a very, very romantic guy. We love watching 'Sleepless in Seattle.' Can you imagine my big testosterone-factor husband doing that?" Describing Rudy, a former federal prosecutor, as "the Energizer Bunny with no rechargeable batteries," Judi said, "One of the most remarkable things about my husband, who sleeps three or four hours a night, is his energy level and stamina. "I truly believe that one of the keys to a successful marriage is not trying to change your partner: This is the person I fell in love with. And I married a man who loves to work, never takes time off, because if you like what you do, you won't need to. "If he decides to run for president, we'll follow that path together," she told Harper's. Judi said she gets her hyper husband to slow down by pushing him onto the golf course: The pair spent their honeymoon in 2003 taking putting lessons in Colorado. She also praised his generous side, which was responsible for the pricey pearl necklace she sported, along with a sexy black dress and stockings, for the mag's titillating photo. "He's also a great listener, rather unusual for such a decisive action person, and very loving - never forgetting anything, obsessing over gifts, wanting to get everyone something they really like," Judi Giuliani said. She recalled a tender moment that revealed her typically tough husband's vulnerability. "When Rudy had prostate cancer in 2000, I knew he'd come through, maybe because we believed he would," said his wife, a registered nurse. "We decided to treat his cancer with radioactive seeds, then fairly new, implanted by a surgeon directly into the prostate, all while being watched on a big, plasma-like monitor in the [operating room]. "Rudy had endured so much intrusion into his privacy that when he was wheeled in, fuzzy from preoperative drugs, he looked at this huge screen and said, 'Judith, don't let them put this on TV.' I felt so sorry for him. I'll never forget it." She said she always thinks about that brush with death and 9/11, when her husband was "spared only by the grace of God" from the World Trade Center's collapsing south tower. Judi Giuliani said that whatever her husband decides to do - including whether to run for president - "I want him to enjoy it." Judi's portrayal of the warm-and-fuzzy side of Rudy could be useful for him in wooing female voters away from potential Democratic foe Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), who declared her candidacy last month. Pressing the flesh with rush-hour commuters on their way home from the Long Island Rail Road station in Floral Park as he campaigned for GOP state Senate candidate Maureen O'Connell, he said, "Everything is very, very positive." By filing his statement of candidacy, Giuliani - who gained national exposure leading the ravaged city post-9/11 - is now in the same position as his main primary-race rivals, Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. The only other major presidential hopeful who hasn't filed a statement of candidacy yet is Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), and he's expected to do so after he officially announces his White House bid Saturday. http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly...nalnews_stephanie_gaskell_and_kate_sheehy.htm
You should know. You've used Katrina as a catalyst for Bush hating in scores of posts. Rudy was the State of New York's Republican nominee for U.S. Senate a year and a half before 9/11. Your suggestion that his ambition for a higher, Federal office is motivated by "taking advantage of a tragedy" is disingenuous. By your way of thinking, any Democrat who runs as an anti-Iraq war candidate is also "another guy taking advantage of a tragedy."
This is as dumb as it gets. Any candidate running against a failed policy with the aim to change that policy is not "taking advantage of a tragedy." What is Rudy promising to change? Nothing. The only thing that he runs on is 9/11 but is he promising a thorough investigation? No. He is only taking advantage of the tragedy.
So apperently you think Hillary's change of heart about Iraq is devoid of political ramifications. LMFAO..........
Good ole Rudy's approval rating was 40% in '99. A year his divorce was all over the papers and he was just waiting out the clock to be relieved of duty. A dramatic day later, everything changes for really no reason. Part of being famous in America is to be at the right place at the right time and tell people what they want to hear - how brave and courageous you all are and we will not rest for blah blah blah blah blah.
rudy also turned a sewer hole of a city into to a nice place live. Turning NY around has to be one of the greatest political accomplishments since the Post wwII rebuilding of germany and japan.
Who cares? I'm voting for Al Gore! Unless Arnold can get the rules amended, and then it's Presidenator! Jem, if you were homeless, you might be a little angry at Rudy. How hard is it to physically force homeless from the streets like they were dogs? Any mayor of any city can give the word, and remove them, but it doesn't happen because that is just cruel and heartless, and which other city would just take it unless you got Jersey around. I guess out of sight, out of mind. Besides, I guess drop kicking your wife and picking up on a hot piece of arse makes it a little easier to sleep at night.