Save your pro-Rudy ramblings for someone who cares. I know all about NYCity, born and raised. The Big Apple was a high taxed liberal socialist run hellhole when I lived there. After eight years as Mayor, NY remained a high taxed liberal socialist hellhole under Rudy.
You've got about 70% registered Democrats and maybe 20% registered Republicans. Who do you think elected Rudy twice. Republicans? Maybe conservatives? There are no elected conservatives holding office in NYCity! Unless you count that SI sell out, Vito Fossella. LOL
Despite all of his charisma and the wonderful leadership he showed after 9/11, Rudy Giuliani is not a Reagan Republican. To the contrary, Giuliani is another Christie Todd Whitman, another Arlen Specter, another Olympia Snowe. He's a throwback to the "bad old days" before Reagan, when the GOP was run by moderate Country Club Republicans who considered conservatives to be extremists. Trying to revive that failed strategy again is likely to lead to a Democratic President in 2008 and numerous setbacks for the Republican Party.
Thank you John Hawkins.
If you know NYC, you well know the challenges Rudy faced with a whacko city council that loves the socialist agenda.
Despite those moonbats, he accomplished a ton of Regan-Republican reforms in that liberal hell hole and significantly improved the quality of life in NYC.
Remember the bad days under Dinkins? Graffiti and crime everywhere. The cops held hostage to do anything to offfend the minority community. New York City was a joke. Rudy came in and cleared out the trash using Reaganesque ideas to achieve his goals.
Democrats don't like lowering taxes, Democrats don't like setting aside affirmative action set aside programs. Democrats don't like reducing the size of government. Democrats aren't as tough on crime. National Defense. And they sure as hell don't want to purge their best voting block -- welfare recipients -- from the public dole. Rudy did all that.