You realize we would not be having this conversation had 9/11 never happenned and the media turned the troubled Mayor into St. Rudy.
Agreed and I *much* rather see him running for the Senate in 2006 than the presidency in 2008. When I say I'd vote for Rudy over McCain, I'm really telling you how much I loathe McCain, not how much I like Rudy. Rudy, at least, took a hellhole of a city and made it halfway presentable. McCain's only accomplishments are getting captured by communists and getting the liberal media to like him.
Maybe, maybe not. I can tell you from the standpoint of someone who used to visit NYC every year that I didn't like the NYC prior to Rudy compared to once he became mayor. I know, from talking to cab drivers and other people that he wasn't the most popular on the block, but, not living there, but visiting there, I could see the differences from before, during and after and under Bloomberg it is backsliding (from a tourist point of view).