Bob Giuda is a Sad, Strange Little Man

by: William Tucker

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

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.

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