[Peach]

Six days later, several visa-overstayers participated in the most devastating attack on the city and the country in history.

They weren't staying in NYC before the attacks; they were in Florida. In January, our local GOP hosted a luncheon and the issue of state vs. federal responsibility as it relates to illegals was discussed at length. The reigning concensus seemed to be the feds weren't doing much to deal with this problem, and the states literally can't afford to deal with it on their own. For instance, the thousands of dollars to incarcerate, prosecute or return each illegal captured were head-exploding. It would literally bankrupt small towns and small cities to fully go after these people.

[KDD]

Giuliani is a ship that only floats in New York Harbor. He is far too liberal to get the Republican nomination.

To the best of my knowledge:

No pro-abortion candidate has ever won the Republican nomination.

Nobody who has been in bed with the homosexual lobby has ever won the Republican nomination.

Nobody who has opposed Second Amendment rights has ever won the Republican nomination.

And some think a man saddled with all three negatives will do so in 2008?

Those New Yorkers and other supporters of Rudy come across to me as Times Echoes