I'm not going to bash Giuliani. There's things about the man I respect, and reasons I don't think he's right to be the leader of this country.
The United States is not NYC. Other than once in a while on a dumpster, I don't see graffiti - anywhere. Where I live, you just kind of assume that most everybody owns a gun, and most everybody hunts, and most everybody is a God-fearing Christian who doesn't engage in immoral sexual behavior (and if they do, it's with their own wife, and they don't tell anybody about it, and it's OK).
Where I live, we don't need someone with a heavy hand utilizing the power of the federal government to clean things up.
We want the borders protected, because the crime rate in my county has gone through the roof since the illegals moved in.
We want the federal government to do something about the IRS because we're all scared to death of going to prison because we forgot to carry the one (fairtax.org bumperstickers are nearly as commonplace as the Browning logo on the back of cars and trucks).
We want to protect the meaning of words ... like marriage ... even if we can't keep the homosexuals on the streets and MTV from kissing each other in front of our children. It doesn't mean we hate queers, we just don't want them spoiling everything.
We want the "doctors" to stop killing babies because we think it's murder, not a choice, and - as often as not - we know someone who had an abortion and never forgave herself for it.
We want to win in Iraq, and fight Islamofascists wherever we need to.
We want to take pride in our nation, and we really don't want to hear from the Democrats who equate our country with failure or class warfare, because where I live, we've all had tough times but we figure out a way to work through it.
And we want somebody who is going to take meaningful steps toward shrinking the size and scope of the federal government (or as we call it, the Yankee Government), because where I live, we believe that the federal government has grown ridiculously out of control and outside its Constitutional boundaries.
And we don't see a New York Mayor - no matter how good he was after 9/11 - or a New England Governor, or a nut-job from Arizona as being the guys who're going to do it.
We want a candidate who shares our values, and the top three from the GOP don't cut it.
But where I live, we're accustomed to being disappointed with our elected officials.
Sittin’, that’s pretty good stuff right there.
Personally, I think that Rudy wouldn't have any more trouble presiding over the rural areas of the country than he would the urban areas. He adapted himself very well to the byzantine complexity of NYC politics, and after that Washington will be a snap.
Would you believe I've seen an increase lately over here in Marietta. As I cross Lower Roswell from Kipling Drive to turn on Harris Drive there is a small business in a house with a big tag on the side. I can't even read the letters. I've seen graffiti in a couple of other places too.