[writeblock]

"I live in NYC and lived here during Rudy's time as mayor. Trust me, what's acceptable in NYC isn't acceptable to many parts of the country."

What specifically are you referring to as "unacceptable"? Is lowering the crime rate not acceptable, or lowering taxes, or supporting school vouchers, or reforming education or closing down the porn shops or going after drug dealers or instituting workfare in place of welfare? He did all of this. What wasn't acceptable?

[Hydroshock]

What specifically are you referring to as "unacceptable"? Is lowering the crime rate not acceptable, or lowering taxes, or supporting school vouchers, or reforming education or closing down the porn shops or going after drug dealers or instituting workfare in place of welfare? He did all of this. What wasn't acceptable?

Pro abortion, pro gay, pro illegal alien, and anti gun. And that is just the tip of the iceberg on unacceptable for me. I will go third party rather then vote for Rino Rudy.

[durasell]

A couple of things. A lot of the stuff for which Rudy takes credit wasn't his doing.

A) Much of the crime was lowered by policies and technology brought in by police comissioners. And some of the crime lowering was brought about as a natural function of crack cocaine and an improved overall economy.

B)He didn't do much to reform education.

C)Closing the porn shops mostly had to do with cleaning up 42nd street -- a project started under Koch.

D)Workfare was his program and he deserves full credit for it. I'm not being sarcastic here, it really is a good program.

That said, the three marriages (one of them to a second cousin), living with a couple of gay guys during his divorce, general support of gay rights, and a highly combative attitude will eventually sink him. There's also no telling what else will come out during the campaign.

[BlackElk]

Cross-dressing on stage for the photographers at a "gay" "rights" fundraiser, heaping praise on the national Abortion Rights Action League at their annual dinner, and gun grabbing are three examples of what is "acceptable" in NYC but not nationally. I may well think even more of Rudy as a person and as NYC Mayor than you do. I admire his choice of Bernie Kerik for many important jobs. I recognize the truth of most of what you say and that reasonable people may disagree on the rest. I like his moxie. I cannot imagine him being nominated by the GOP and it is important to the GOP to nominate an unqualified social conservative. Rudy will be a magnificent Attorney General. He, like most people even in high office, will never be president. No one, not even Rudy, can survive the cross-dressing photo. Rudy is also a New York Yankee fan, as I am, and, if he were POTUS, he would have a hard time attending games in the Big Ball Orchard in the South Bronx.