I think if you examine seriously both the bankgrounds there is a TREMENDOUS difference. Rudy is a tough hands-on native New Yorker who has not only physical courage (remember 'America's Mayor' on 9/11?) but has clearly demonstrated his political courage in transforming NYC., and restoring law and order and fiscal sanity to the city -- despite MSM opposition. Hillary is clearly a "carpet bagger" who has no more genuine ties to NYC than a Hottentot has with Manhattan. Rudy exemplifies the best of America and the capacity to fight back in a really tough way - as in a NYC street fight!
And anyone who's looked at his record as Mayor can't deny all the racial and special interests he's had to subdue. And all this was long before the national attention was aimed at him! He's AUTHENTIC - the real thing. So rare in American politics!
Authentically liberal, authentically wrong.