If Rudy is not a Republican, than what is he? Does this sound Republican enough for you:
-Cutting taxes in a city that had never seen a tax cut before
-Reducing deficits
-Cutting crime by 64 percent (murders down 67 percent)
-Ending open admissions policy at City University, resulting in SAT scores of incoming freshmen to rise 168 points
-Attempting to take over NYC schools from the teacher’s union
-Fixing the NYC welfare system (1 in 8 were on welfare in 1993, 600,000 less were on in 2001, 100,000 found jobs)
-Increasing city revenues
-Shutting down X rated sex shops
-Pissing off the NY Times and the ACLU
-Being one of the most successful federal prosecutors ever
-Worked for President Reagan
-Blames Islamic terrorists for terrorism, not America
-Believes we must succeed in Iraq
-Pro school choice
On social issues he is wrong, especially abortion. But the fact is that abortions actually declined in NYC while he was in office, and no President since 1973 has made a real dent in abortion. He also publicly supported Alito and Roberts.
Except he’s pro-abortion, pro-gay rights and pro- gun control
I wouldn’t call closing down an X rated shop isn’t really Republican or Democratic action. We are smart enough in this state to realize this and so our municipal elections are non-partisan.
Increasing city revenues is not exactly a Republican or a Democratic thing, rather it’s a, don’t spend more than you take in kind of thing, and also, cities tend to increase revenues when they take in new territory or see a boom, and New York boomed when Giuliani was in office. He deserves some credit, but some of it would have happened anyway.
Being Mayor of New York doesn’t qualify you to be President, it basically qualifies you to be, Mayor of New York.
Rudy has spent most of his life in New York, and his entire public career was in that city. He hasn’t had to deal with the kind of geographic and interest diversity that say, someone elected to a statewide executive position, has to deal with. I love our previous past mayor. He helped turn our city around too and now we’re recognized as a shining light in the region. He’s great, but I don’t think he’s qualified to be President. Same with Rudy. It just takes a different skill set to be Mayor. Mayor of New York in 2009, might be his thing, the Presidency, is not.