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.
If it comes down to Rudy vs. Hillary (and it looks like if it were held today,etc.etc.........)
I would vote Rudy.
Rudy sounds tough on terrorism but soft on illegals, even though he acknowledges that terrorism could come from the ranks of the illegals.
I would prefer that my candidate is tougher on illegals.)like Romney)
As far as the abortion question goes, RU184 (or whatever the heck you call it) will make this all a moot point eventually, even with the controversy surrounding that moring-after pill.
It'll be sold over-the-counter someday like condoms, before it is all said and done, and the question will go away (to a degree).
Abortion doesn't have the traction it used to, IMO.
Bigger fish to fry-Terror and Illegals.
He also brought in the crime fighters from Boston, a revolutionary move that has been spreading all over the country.