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Leftist drivel? It's called supply-side economics. Rudy cut taxes, lowered the tax rate, which unshackled business, which then expanded, and hired hundreds of thousands of people - all of which increased the tax base. An increased tax base brings in more money to the treasury.

Clearly, the only reason you refuse to acknowledge that Rudy's policies were textbook fiscal conservatism is that you don't understand what fiscal conservatism is. What do you think happened under Ronald Reagan in the 1980s? Exactly, precisely the same thing.

What is it about Rudy promoters that causes them to falsely equate him to Reagan?

"This plan is aimed at reducing the growth in government spending and taxing, reforming and eliminating regulations which are unnecessary and unproductive or counterproductive, and encouraging a consistent monetary policy aimed at maintaining the value of the currency." --Ronald Reagan, White House Report on the Program for Economic Recovery, February 18th, 1981

If you believe our next national leader/president should be someone who can balance the country's checkbook and restore order in Iraq like he did in NYC, then Rudy is the man. However....If you believe that we are in struggle with Good vs Evil, as I do, then we may want to select a better candidate. We are not facing a global Crypts vs Bloods gang war.....it much more than that. If by some miracle we were to absolutely stop all violence in Iraq the 1st morning after a Guiliani inauguration, we'd still have the "Clash of Civilizations" underway.

President Bush has a vision of what needs to happen in the Middle East but unfortunately he can't communicate it effectively. Perhaps the fault is not with the sender but instead with the receiver. It won't be until we have 5 or 6 more 9/11 incidents that we may sit back and ponder this situation with some more depth of reason. Most of our current analysis and thinking is a hundred miles wide and 3 microns deep.