If Rooty were the ONLY GOP candidate who supported the war on terror, then things would be very different. But the reality is that ALL of the real Republicans (I don’t think Ron Paul is any more a Republican than Rooty is) support the war just as much as he does and the Rooty Rooters can’t seem to grasp that.
As far as being mayor of NYC on 9/11/01, let’s remember that in his first seven years as mayor he did NOTHING to develop an evacuation plan for a KNOWN terrorist target where evacuation had already been demonstrated to be critical. Yet Rooty continues to talk about his 9/11 experience the same way John sKerry talked about Vietnam.
(1) The incredible growth in government surveillance activities from the Patriot Act,
(2) The growth in government surveillance in ECHELON,
(3) The growth in government surveillance in CARNIVORE,
(4) Redeployment of FBI personnel from illegal drugs to national security,
(5) The removal of the Gorelick Wall (thanks, again Slick—Rudy, are you listening?),
(6) The new gigantic government bureaucracy, with tens of thousands of new government employees, the TSA,
(7) With its huge, bigger, parent version—the new Washington, DC, bureaucracy (aka the Homeland Security Dept),
(8) The blank check now given to our intelligence agencies, and,
(9) The greatly increased coordination/info sharing between our intelligence agencies and the foreign intel agencies of our allies and friends,
(10) Belated arming of our aircrews (NO THANKS TO GUN-GRABBING LIBERALS LIKE RUDY),
(11) Increased presence of federal air marshals,
(12) The new, first-ever Director of National Intelligence,
(13) Stepped-up, updated and more thorough background checks on all employees in sensitive positions (govt and private industry), and
(14) Who knows what else—as this is all that quickly comes to mind--I’m sure there’s lots more that we aren’t even aware of,,,
--and you see that Pres Bush will be leaving behind a strong, impressive and formidable line of defense that any future President can ride on for a long, long, long time.