If a Republican got elected Mayor of San Francisco, reduced crime by 2/3rds, cut taxes 23 times, and kept the city together in it's time of greatest crisis, I'd be VERY interested in having him run for President.
Well, when you're in a cesspool like NYC in those days, anything looks like improvement. Believe it or not, most RINOs actually are marginally better than Demonrats. But they get us to the same hell eventually.
Just motivating urban cops to do what they should have done all along is not grounds for electing someone President. It might be grounds for electing him governor. Will he secure the nation's borders? I doubt it.
And after these "23 tax cuts," by what % were taxes in NYC actually reduced? Did he get rid of rent control?
There is simply no reason the party of Reagan needs to stoop this low. We were told for decades that conservatives couldn't win, so the country-clubbers forced Ford, Nixon, and many others on us. It's a tired old lie.