[Tenniel]

Granted, Giuliani's take on social issues leaves something to be desired, but ponder this: without national security -- the REAL kind, with full control of both borders and no delusions about the tea-towels -- abortion and gun control could become moot points in a New York minute.

Put another way, domestic squabbles don't mean a damn thing when the guy in charge lets the other chaps turn your domus into a socialist workers' paradise... or a smoking hole in the ground.

[P8riot]

Personally I think folks give Giuliani entirely too much credit for security. It took a lot more than one man to handle things after 9/11, and he didn't clean up NYC single handedly either.