[areafiftyone]

Regardless Rudy was the best mayor NYC ever had. I think he would be a great speaker. His perfomance on 9/11 was outstanding and he helped us New Yorkers feel like we could lean on him during the worst time of our life. He got us thru it like a true leader. (Of course Bush was our true fearless leader). There is NO Perfect Republican just like there is NO perfect Democrat. There will always be something that someone doesn't like about them.

[EternalVigilance]

I don't argue with those things.

But you must remember that your top elected New York Republicans are social liberals to the max, and the majority of the Party's base across the country are not.

I swear, the leadership of our party is getting stupider and stupider.

[Alberta's Child]

It's worth noting that if it were not for 9/11, Rudy Giuliani would have been remembered (incorrectly, in my mind) as a mediocre mayor. His problem was that he was a very difficult person to get along with, and most people who worked with him describe him as a royal pain in the @ss.

These attributes are what makes him such a great "crisis" leader -- but they would also make him a weak candidate at a time when voters do not perceive a major crisis on the horizon.

[EternalVigilance]

"No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other."

- Luke 16:13

[ZULU]

"Regardless Rudy was the best mayor NYC ever had."

The last great mayor New York had was Peter Styvesant. They are all a bunch of leftist liberals.

Giuliani is a FASCIST. Of COURSE he handled 9-1-1 well! ALL fascists can deal with confrontations - they LIKE them.