Frank Rich : What ‘That Regan Woman’ Knows

[maddezmom]

By FRANK RICH
Published: November 18, 2007
NEW Yorkers who remember Rudy Giuliani as the bullying New York mayor, not as the terminally cheerful “America’s Mayor” cooing to babies in New Hampshire, have always banked on one certainty: his presidential candidacy was so preposterous it would implode before he got anywhere near the White House.

Surely, we reassured ourselves, the all-powerful Republican values enforcers were so highly principled that they would excommunicate him because of his liberal social views, three wives and estranged children. Or a firewall would be erected by the firefighters who are enraged by his self-aggrandizing rewrite of 9/11 history. Or Judith Giuliani, with her long-hidden first marriage and Louis Vuitton ’tude, would send red-state voters screaming into the night.

Wrong, wrong and wrong. But how quickly and stupidly we forgot about the other Judith in the Rudy orbit. That would be Judith Regan, who disappeared last December after she was unceremoniously fired from Rupert Murdoch’s publishing house, HarperCollins. Last week Ms. Regan came roaring back into the fray, a silver bullet aimed squarely at the heart of the Giuliani campaign.

Ms. Regan filed a $100 million lawsuit against her former employer, claiming she was unjustly made a scapegoat for the O. J. Simpson “If I Did It” fiasco that (briefly) embarrassed Mr. Murdoch and his News Corporation. But for those of us not caught up in the Simpson circus, what’s most riveting about the suit are two at best tangential sentences in its 70 pages: “In fact, a senior executive in the News Corporation organization told Regan that he believed she had information about Kerik that, if disclosed, would harm Giuliani’s presidential campaign. This executive advised Regan to lie to, and to withhold information from, investigators concerning Kerik.”

more:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/opinion/18rich.html

[brazos121200]

1. Like they say: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned".

I really believe that all of Giuliani's past indescretions and moral lapses will catch up with him eventually, I just wish it would hurry up. Primaries just three months away, you know. I, too, cannot believe that thevast Republican middle has accepted Hiuliani with all of his "liberal" social positions. In truth, they know what others know, that Giuliani is not really a liberal at all, but took those positions when running for mayor of New York City, since it is almost mandatory for any mayor of NY to be a liberal. In truth, Giuliani is really no differenct than the Tancredos, the Brownbacks, the Huckabees of the party, a neanderthal still living in the 19th century, with all its attendant moral iinsensitivity.

[peace frog]

3. Patience is a virtue

Rudy's sexual indiscretions and criminal activities are the prefect shit to hit the fan, next year when shit will be seriously flung. Perfect counter to the long-expected swiftboating of Hillary.

[mwb970]

5. Buyer's remorse should kick in soon.

Rudy's incompetence and terrible, terrible judgment will be increasingly highlighted as time goes on. I honestly think that the load of horsey-doo he's dragging around now cannot be completely concealed much longer.

[tanyev]

2. KIck.

[Sacajawea]

4. Excellent column, as usual, from Mr. Rich. I, too, wish that RG would implode already.