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Bob Giuda is a Sad, Strange Little Man

by: William Tucker

Thu Jul 01, 2010 at 13:35:03 PM EDT


( - promoted by Dean Barker)

That creaking sound you hear is Bob Giuda hanging there, twisting slowly, slowly in the wind - yet to acknowledge his campaign for Congress is over.

In today's Nashua Telegraph, Giuda attempts to explain his marriage-equality-leads-to-bestiality meltdown to Kevin Landrigan.

According to Giuda, he said a few, female gay rights advocates "aggressively came after me" for his opposition to same-sex marriage.

The image of a former Marine fighter pilot and FBI agent cowered by a few "aggressive" teenage girls is probably not the image a potential Congressman wants to convey.

William Tucker :: Bob Giuda is a Sad, Strange Little Man
Giuda said he did not mean anything sexual by the remark and stressed that linking marriage to anything but the union of a man and a woman was extreme.

"I could and should have chosen my words more carefully," Giuda said. "I should have said man and a telephone pole or man with a space ship."

Let me get this straight. He opposes same-sex marriage because it will lead to the legalization of men marrying space ships? And he expects the voters to choose him to deal with complex policy issues like climate change, financial regulation, and the federal budget?

"Maybe I would have been better off ignoring those who aggressively came after me but I always try to show everyone respect."

The reporter described Giuda's respectful attitude as "defensive and angry... visibly irritated and short." And here's the description of how they "came after him":

The teenagers - most of whom are not yet old enough to vote - engaged Giuda in an impressive manner, quoting Thomas Jefferson and the Constitution in their arguments.

The first rule of crisis management: when you're in a hole, stop digging. Giuda ignores that sage advice and follows his successful media tour with a Nixonian rant on his web site. In it, he plays the victim, blames the media (though remember, he has never denied any of the facts or characterizations in the news report), and declares the nation's future depends on his campaign.

Our nation is foundering in intellectual dishonesty... It is media whose reporters do nothing more than copy and quote reports from other sources. It is aggressive special interests that twist remarks taken out of context to achieve a political goal. This is the culture of politics today, and it is killing our country. But it can only destroy us if we as citizens accept at face value that which we read, see and hear, and thereby allow someone else to do our thinking for us.

When appearances and innuendo become more important than substance, America loses.

I believe the American people and the people of New Hampshire are more than capable of differentiating between fact, fiction, inference and innuendo. We used to call it the "sniff test".

And like never before in my lifetime, our nation's future depends on it.

Some free advice for Mr. Giuda. Issue an unambiguous, heartfelt apology and move on. It's too late to salvage your campaign. It's not too late to save your dignity.

Cross-posted to Miscellany Blue

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is it me or... (0.00 / 0)
do Republicans always seem to think that things are "killing our country," ready to "destroy us," etc? Jesus, relax people...

When they say (4.00 / 1)
"that things are "killing our country," ready to "destroy us," etc?"

What they mean is the special niche that they have carved out for themselves.

Of course, they have to broaden the statement, so as to excite the masses that follow their lead. GOPers are adept at messaging. They make something that only truly applies to "the few" and make it sound like it applies to all.

Normally, the hyperbole is shrill and conjured upon the "downfall" of the Republic.

Just think, the freedom to flat out lie without conscience. Unfortunately, my mom raised me right. That is right with a small "r."

Whack-a-mole, anyone?


[ Parent ]
Republicans learned a long time ago... (4.00 / 2)
...that it is far easier to create a coaltion based on identifying a common enemy or threat, than it is to gather support for an answer to a problem.  

This is precisely the predicament the Tea Partiers will find themselves in:  as long as they can identify enemies (bailouts, deficits), they can hold themselves together.  As soon as one of them comes up with a proactive alternative plan to close the deficit, they will incur the wrath of 75% of them who will disagree with that plan.

Ergo:  "Let's just agree that the Country is Going to Hell in a Handbasket, and stick together in our misery and bitterness...that keeps our coaltion together...."


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Tea partiers (0.00 / 0)
Thomas Simmons hit the nail on the head.

LOL (0.00 / 0)
 I am glad to hear that 'aggressive female gay rights activists' are attending Girls State/Boys State.  Diversity in thought is a good thing for the program.    



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    


Hmm (4.00 / 1)
I have lived all over New Hampshire and I've never once met anyone who wanted to marry a sheep, a dog, or a telephone pole.  I wonder which town Mr. Giuda hails from as apparently it's an issue there.

In my daily travels through CD2 (0.00 / 0)
I have seen exactly 4 Giuda signs; and one house had two (along with the requisite don't-tread-on-me flag).

Speaking of signs and the March of the Tea Party Clones Clowns, who the hell is John Taft? A half-dozen of these signs sprouted up like mushrooms next to highways and byways in my area of CD2 within the last couple of days.

Sure can't tell much about him from his web site, and a cursory search of Google news shows nothing at all. The bio on the site reads a little like Gordon Humphrey (spare us), but not much substance other than a shopping list of Tea Party flavored targets.

Republicans believe government is bad - then they get into office and prove it.



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