In considering the Rudy Giuliani of today, it’s worth remembering that he once referred to a Republican presidential candidate as “an incompetent, confused and sometimes idiotic man.”
Unlike some leading GOP figures (hello, Lindsey Graham), he was not speaking of Donald Trump, but rather Barry Goldwater during the 1964 presidential campaign, when the Rude Boy was a columnist for the Manhattan College student newspaper and a Democrat who was a Bobby Kennedy fan.
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