Hmm. Perhaps, Rudy is somewhat reminiscent of a Churchill. Churchill was totally ridiculed as a drunk and everything else, yada, yada, yada, in his day. The exemplary qualities sometimes seem to come out of the blue to rise to the occasion. Churchill's "fireside chats" kept people going in very, very, dark days.
It was FDR who made the "fireside chats" though perhaps this says something. Come to think of it Rudy seems closer to the Welfare statist FDR than to Churchill.