Rudy the Red
Fossil Darling and I agree: a Giuliani Administration is about the only thing imaginable that would be worse than the Bush Administration. We don't worry about it too much, because true-red conservatives don't like Rudy Giuliani any better than we do. The man is a thug who has, over the years, become seriously addicted to adulation. There isn't anything he won't do to get it, wherever he can get it. Now he's back-tracking on all of his formerly moderate-Republican views, which he more or less had to espouse when he wanted to be mayor of New York City.
On 10 September 2001, he was a widely detested public figure here in Gotham. His my-way-or-the-highway manner had become grating. The city employed more, not fewer, workers, contrary to his campaign promises. There was a very embarrassing divorce. Then came 9/11. Despite all of the incompetence - not least of which was the uselessness of that second-story "bunker" at 7 World Trade Center - the day was glory time for Mr Giuliani. If I had suspected him of more foresighted cunning, I'd have demanded an investigation into his terrorist ties.
We pray that, in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, Mr Giuliani will be found to be "too New York." This is one time when I'm actually hoping that the country will reject the City.
