The Smoking Gun publishes excerpts from a "vulnerability study" commissioned by Rudy Giuliani's 1993 mayoral campaign.
"The confidential 450-page report, authored by Giuliani's research director and another aide, was the campaign's attempt to identify possible lines of attack against Giuliani and prepare the candidate and his staff to counter 'the kinds of no-holes-barred assault' expected in a general election rematch with Democratic incumbent David Dinkins."
Among the more interesting observations:
In running for mayor, Giuliani needed "inoculating against" the "Reagan Republican moniker" and emphasize its candidate's "independence from traditional national Republican policies."
Giuliani's personal life raised questions about a "weirdness factor" that stemmed from his 14-year marriage to his second cousin, "a union that he got annulled by claiming to have never received proper dispensation from the Catholic Church for the unorthodox nuptials."
Giuliani has no "core convictions" and travelled across the political spectrum from McGovern Democrat to Reagan Republican.
Giuliani ordered copies of the study destroyed shortly after it was circulated to top campaign aides. but obviously at least one copied remained. It was obtained by Wayne Barrett, author of Rudy!
February 13, 2007
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