[Sabramerican]

You're a couple of centuries too early.

In the future, they might be able to take some Reagan DNA, some Giuliani, some Bush, (anyone want some Buchanan too) etc, mix then up in a test tube, and clone a candidate to run a couple of years later.

But in this day and age it is easy to disparage a successful performer like Giuliani in comparison to the perfect phantom.

[Alberta's Child]

I'll remind you that there hasn't been a candidate from New York on a successful national ticket since FDR's last gasp in 1944. That's 62 years -- which is all the more remarkable when you consider that New York has been one of the largest states in the electoral college for that entire period of time (and THE largest for much of that era).

This isn't an odd coincidence, either. Most Americans recognize that for all intents and purposes, New York City isn't even really part of the United States anymore.