Should a presidential candidates public humiliation of his wife and children have any bearing on whether you vote for him or not?

Richard Land, head of public policy for the Southern Baptist Convention, told The Associated Press that evangelicals believe the former New York City mayor showed a lack of character during his divorce from his second wife, television personality Donna Hanover.

"I mean, this is divorce on steroids," Land said. "To publicly humiliate your wife in that way, and your children. That's rough. I think that's going to be an awfully hard sell, even if he weren't pro-choice and pro-gun control."

Giuliani married his longtime companion, Judith Nathan, in 2003. They had dated publicly while Giuliani was married to Hanover. His first marriage ended in an annulment.

One cannot live life without some regrets over personal failures and disappointments. Even if you aren't a religious person, you can still at least entertain the hope of redemption. Yet personal failures more often than not, simply reflect inherent character flaws--weaknesses exposed by circumstances. We find our cowardice in battle, our dishonesty when tempted, our disloyalty when threatened. Conversely we also find our strengths in extremity.

What does Giuliani's dishonorable behavior mean in terms of a prospective presidency?

I think Bill Clinton answered this question to some degree. A lot of people dismissed his bimbo eruptions as irrelevant to his abilities to discharge his presidential responsibilities, but as we discovered, the bimbos were symptoms of a deeper, more threatening character flaw.

The issue is perhaps too subjective to answer definitively, but I gotta tell ya, I understand why some people are concerned.