Rudy Giuliani's quest for the presidency isn't one I embrace, but the vitriol — perhaps born of fear that he could win in 2008 — leveled against him by the elite media and left wing magazines is surely disproportionate. As a Manhattan resident from 1987-2003, I never cared for Giuliani's constant self-aggrandizement, odd political decisions (his endorsement of Mario Cuomo in '94) and almost comical and fruitless efforts to censor artists he considered lewd and blasphemous. Those detriments, however, paled compared to his grandstanding in the late 1980s, when, as if taking direction from The New York Times, he zealously...