Cleaning up a cesspool like pre-Rudy NYC was is good practice for cleaning up what's wrong with the rest of the country.
As a New Yorker, you know what kind of Republican you have to run as in order to get elected mayor of this town: You run as moderate pro-life, pro-gun control, and hard core law-and-order. It boggles my mind that people get down on Rudy for gun control in a city where most of the residents WANT GUN CONTROL. They WANT it, they really do.
Crazy? Hell yeah it's crazy, but that's what the electorate wants.
You know what other crazy crap they want here? They want abortion on demand, so they have it. That's the kind of place NYC is.
I can just see the President marching along in the Gay Pride parade, in drag, under that NAMBLA banner. That’ll go over really well in “flyover country”.