Rudy is a very able and capable politician. There was alot of trash talkin here during the early phases of the process.
I actually still think a Thompson Rudy ticket would have been very, very strong.
But I would never support him for the top slot simply because he has a New York metropolitan view of the the USA. And America is more than New York City.
Heh. New York STATE is more than New York City.
As peggy Noonan wrote today in the Wall Street Journal:
"I’m bumping into a lot of critics who do not buy the legitimacy of small town mayorship (Palin had two terms [6 years] in Wasilla, Alaska, population 9,000 or so) and executive as opposed to legislative experience. But executives, even of small towns, run something. There are 262 cities in this country with a population of 100,000 or more. But there are close to a hundred thousand small towns with ten thousand people or less. “You do the math,” the conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway told me. “We are a nation of Wasillas, not Chicagos.”