Ronald Reagan was divorced, he had four children by two different women. He was a movie star when he got divorced the first time. Made scandal type headlines, as Nancy had been his mistress. He had major issues with his kids, particularly his younger kids. He was estranged for a long time from his son Ron, and his daughter Patti, who did not agree with his politics and posed nude in Playboy in photo spreads with a black man possibly just to piss him off. Reagan did not go to church, he was possibly the least religious president in modern history.

None of it mattered. Conservatives still worshipped him. Guiliani is going to point to that. The only problem is that conservatives don't worship Guiliani. He is popular but not seen as ideologically hardline. This might make a difference. Maybe if he was as conservative as Reagan, he could get away with the same kind of family dirt Reagan got away with?