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I agree that Mr. Giuliani has nothing to reference other than his time in New York City. What he did there was good, but a weakness is that he's never represented any larger area. People in New York City like to think of the city as wonderfully diverse, but to many of us in "flyover country," New York City people are just millions of copies of the same thing all in different wrappers. The fact that Mr. Giuliani has never represented any larger and more diverse area is a weakness. His entire career has been spent dealing with urban issues and urban concerns. That narrow focus is a weakness in his running to represent the entire country.

To some extent, my favorite candidate, Duncan Hunter, has the same problem. While I'm sure that there is some diversity in his Congressional district, he's spent all of his time representing one group of people in one area. Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul have the same weakness.

Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, John McCain, and Fred Thompson at least have the advantage of having representing an entire state with the geographic diversity that comes with any state. They have had to think in terms of both rural concerns and urban concerns. Governors Huckabee and Romney have had to balance the concerns of legislators from a variety of areas just as a president would.

Bill

A few comments about our candidates (mostly on their physical attributes):

It struck me that 3 out of 4 of our top tier candidates have all had or have cancer. Guiliani (prostate), McCain (skin), Thompson [now that he’s official](leukemia). Not sure what this means, if anything, but I suspect somehow the Dems will try to make use of this fact. Hitlery is the oldest of the 3 top tier Dem candidates (a fairly young bunch). A couple of our guys look and/or are old: Thompson and McCain (although Fred looks like he may have been recently botoxed). Hope camparisons aren’t made as to vitality and pep, but my guess is that the MSM as well as the Dems will play this up if either of these two are our nominee. If Romney is the nominee, his looks will also come into play: too good looking, and is therefore slick, or in Huckabee’s case, too glib and like a used car salesman. Brownback always looks like he has a stick up his *ss. Plus he has slitty looking eyes, like they are always half closed. Prudish, pursed lips, overly moralistic. Ron Paul looks and is nutz. Tancredo has a ski slope for a nose. Vies with Bob Hope’s for upward curvature. Duncan Hunter seems most presidential in looks and stature. A solid looking, squared off kind of guy. However, have you ever noticed how he always stands at the podium on an angle? He never stands front-on. Always at a quarter angle. Interesting, wonder why. Check out our candidates and see if I am not right, not that any of this is of significance. Just musing.