Rudy: he’s nuts
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/06/wolff200706
Crazy for Rudy
Many New York political pros believe Rudy Giuliani=97former mayor, hero =
of 9/11, and now presidential candidate=97is, quite literally, nuts. =
The author asks whether Giuliani’s lunatic behavior could be the =
ultimate campaign asset.
by Michael Wolff
There’s no politician more fun to write about than Rudy Giuliani. =
He’s your political show of shows=97driven to ever greater public =
outlandishness by a do-anything compulsion always to be at the center =
of attention. At some point, when he was New York’s mayor, it seemed =
to stop mattering to him that this attention was, for his political =
career, the bad kind of attention. Politics appeared no longer to be =
his interest; to prove, over and over again, that it’s his right=97his =
art, even=97to be at the center of attention was. Even this does not =
really explain the implausibility, and entertainment, of Rudy as a =
politician.
The explanation for what makes Rudy so compelling among people who =
know him best=97including New York reporters who’ve covered him for a =
generation, and political pros who’ve worked for him=97is simpler: he =
is nuts, actually mad.
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