Friends of Rudy

So…which do we think will prove to be more embarrassing to Rudy Giuliani? His relationship with Bernard Kerik, who today was indicted on multiple counts of tax evasion and corruption —

— or his relationship with Televangelist Pat Robertson? My money's on Pat.

While I've got your attention: Mayor Giuliani seems to like to dress up in women's clothing an awful lot for shows and stunts and parties. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

However, I think that if a possible/probable Democratic candidate for the presidency had even done that once, this election would not be about Iraq or Health Care or jobs or "the Economy, stupid" or any of that. It would wind up being about the charge that the candidate and anyone who'd even think of voting for him is a sexual deviant and a pervert. Somewhere on my hard disk I still have the e-mail from an acquaintance trying to convince me that John Kerry wasn't a "real man" because he went wind-surfing.