We lived in CT for most of my adult life. I went to college in Boston and admittedly spent more time in Boston than NYC but we did go into NYC pretty frequently for Yankee games and for concerts and plays.
Then we had to stop going. The city was absolutely not safe. I saw people mugged in front of me, beaten and frightened. Two friends were robbed within minutes of getting off charter buses to see a play in what had been, years before, a pretty safe district.
Rudy changed all that. He's got the guts to take on anybody and the charisma to win over foes.
He has faults, as do all candidates, and staunchly social issue conservatives won't particularly like him.
I also like Mitt Romney and will vote for my favorite candidate in the primary (I'm not sure which one that is yet) and will just pray the nation makes the right decision because without someone strong on national security, all the social programs in the world won't mean diddly.
In 1981, Giuliani was named Associate Attorney General, placing him in the third-highest position in the Department of Justice. As Associate Attorney General, Giuliani supervised all of the US Attorney Offices' Federal law enforcement agencies, the Department of Corrections, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the United States Marshals Service.
He also spearheaded the effort to jail drug dealers, combat organized crime, break the web of corruption in government, and prosecute white-collar criminals. He amassed a record of 4,152 convictions with only 25 reversals.
He's smart as a whip and his stance on crime in NYC, going after the little stuff and working his way up toward the big stuff and being pro active instead of reactive reminds me of President Bush in his stance in the war on terror.