Leopards don't usually change their spots. Guiliani seems like a very shady person who can't be trusted. Between his professional dealings and private dalliances, I hope the American people don't want this kind of leader!

The man's just helping him raise money. He's not holding up banks. And Guiliani's not asking the man to be secretary of state for cripe sake! It's been 20 years since Asher's legal problems. He did his time. Do all of you wish to have your past errors for which you've made atonement raised at every juncture? Just for once try to get some perspective before spweing mindless venom.

More sensational headlines from ABC News. I have noticed that ABC News produces negative headlines against Republicans, and postitive sounding headlines for Democrats. ABC News - clean up your act, your lack of fairness is showing that you have an ugly and unrespectable method of journalism.

Hah, Funny that Giuliani would gladly embrace a guy that is a convicted briber. But then apparently he said hes worked with the rest of the PA republican party so i guess if everyone's doing it, then Rudi may as well too.

Is this guy's real name Norman Hsu? where are all the clinton bashers to say the same thing about their top GOP candidate now?

What the above writer said about ABC News (as well as NBC and CBS) is so true!! I really do wish they would clean up their act.

All you people complaining about "the media" being unfair to Republicans are LAUGHABLE. Fact is, your Republican Party is FULL of thieves and liars...that's why nary a day goes by without another one caught in some sleazy situation. It's unbelievable how corrupt the GOP has become. It's not "the media's" fault...it's YOUR PARTY'S FAULT. But as Republicans, you're genetically incapable of ever accepting responsibility...for ANYTHING. Just like the sleaze you put into office. Try looking in the mirror.

Not even close to a valid comparison, GOPportunists. Norman Hsu was convicted of fraud for a pyramid scheme in the early 90's. Instead of waiting for his sentencing and doing his time, he ran off to Hong Kong, spent money until he was bankrupt, and then came back to the US, where he lived quite well and apparently "creatively" fund-raised until arrested again. Even after that, once he made bail, he bolted but was rearrested fairly quickly this time.

On the other hand, about 20 years ago, Asher went to court, took his punishment, paid his dues, and its done.

I agree that ABC has been openly leaning toward the democrats for actually quite a long time now. At least with Fox and CNN you know where their biases are. Unfortunately,viewers of the three "major" networks either foolishly, or blindly, believe they are receiving balanced and unbiased reporting when in fact these three generally demonstrate their biases on a regular basis. Too bad people don't understand that just because they've heard it on tv or seen it in print doesn't mean its fairly and/or accurately presented. You have to take the affirmative action to expose yourself to multiple news sources in order to get a better view of just about any story not involving rescuing puppies from storm sewers.

Asher went to court and took his medicine? He went to TRIAL. Got convicted of bribery, perjury, conspiracy, and racketeering! He appealed his convictions for years and never admitted he did anything wrong (until Monday night, that is). We're not talking about drunk driving, a drug conviction from years ago, or even a business fraud. We're talking about political corruption at the highest levels of state government at the very time Rudy was making a name for himself locking up criminals doing exactly the same things as Asher was doing. This is a blackeye for the Republican Party, Rudy and Pennsylvania. Rudy may be the GOP's best hope, but covorting with Asher hurts him and will be used against him.

All of you are complete morons. Do you think any candidate that is in the running is honest and do not surround themselves around criminals. Look at the Clinton's they were the biggest crooks of them all. Rudy might have questionable associates but the Clinton's themselves are criminals. Clinton ties to China and giving them Access to classified Nuclear technology.

If it was just this one crook it wouldn't be so noteworthy. The fact is Giuliani's made lots of money on the backs of criminals and now it's coming back to haunt him. That's good for starters, but wait! He marries his cousin, divorces her, marries his second wife, cheats on her with the golddigging Judith Nathan, doesn't have the guts to tell his second wife face to face he's divorcing her and instead announces it in a televised press conference. Now he's been outed for having the NYC taxpayers pay for his trust expenses. Oh but wait! His own children do not speak to him, his daughter has announced publicly she supports Obama.

Heard enough? That's all I need to know about the character of Giuliani, and I didn't even mention Bernard Kerik who Giuliani thought would be the perfect guy to head Homeland Security. Sheesh!

I'm not much of a Clinton fan myself, however, I have noticed that whenever a Republican gets caught with their pants down, the knee-jerk Republican response is to say "so, well Clinton .... this...and...Clinton...that"

Can't you people come up with something better than that? Ken Starr, at the behest of the Republican congress, spent $7 million of the taxpayer's money and several years on his Clinton witch hunt trying to hang something, anything, illegal on the Clinton's. After all that time, money and effort he couldn't come up with one thing with any legs that would stick.

Who wrote this article? The campaign manager for one of the other Presidential candidates??

This article seems to be rather sensational for the facts involved, particularly if you are involved in local Southeast PA politics. If you actually read the whole evite host committee, it appears to be composed of Bob Asher and many of the Republican chairs of the Southeast. The real significance of the event may be that many of the official party leaders of Southeast Pennsylvania Counties are favorably disposed to Guiliani, which gives him a solid starting point in winning Pennsylvania's primary.

This is not a real suprise that in Southeast Pennsylvania, Guiliani finds support among Republican leaders. You just have to look at the polls which favor Guiliani. Many around here see Guiliani as a hero for his activities associated with 9/11 and for cleaning up New York and making it pleasurable and safe for ordinary citizens to enjoy a weekend there (which is just a short train ride away).

The visual in this article just focuses on Bob Asher's name while clearly the evite is a collection of prominent Republican leaders throughout the Southeast Counties. The article focuses on Asher, but the analysis is superficial and does not note the obvious import for those active in local Republican politics: Giuliani's candidacy is getting strong consideration by the local GOP.

Rudy Giuliani is a walking political scandal. If he were a Democrat, Fox News would be all over him all the time (instead of deciding which side of his behind to kiss and for how long).

This is the tip of the iceburg. Both parties have dirt. But in this guy's case, it's not just the Democrats picking on him - he REALLY REALLY has some serious ethical problems, the dimensions of which we're only beginning to scratch the surface of.