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Nice summary. Agree on Brownie and Paulie.

Noted on Fox, some were turned off by Giuliani’s oft reference to NY. What the hell record is he suppose to refer to, his time as a Mayor in Sri Lanka?

I agree that Mr. Giuliani has nothing to reference other than his time in New York City. What he did there was good, but a weakness is that he's never represented any larger area. People in New York City like to think of the city as wonderfully diverse, but to many of us in "flyover country," New York City people are just millions of copies of the same thing all in different wrappers. The fact that Mr. Giuliani has never represented any larger and more diverse area is a weakness. His entire career has been spent dealing with urban issues and urban concerns. That narrow focus is a weakness in his running to represent the entire country.

To some extent, my favorite candidate, Duncan Hunter, has the same problem. While I'm sure that there is some diversity in his Congressional district, he's spent all of his time representing one group of people in one area. Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul have the same weakness.

Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, John McCain, and Fred Thompson at least have the advantage of having representing an entire state with the geographic diversity that comes with any state. They have had to think in terms of both rural concerns and urban concerns. Governors Huckabee and Romney have had to balance the concerns of legislators from a variety of areas just as a president would.

Bill