Very simply, he gets it, on so many issues. As Mayor of New York, he turned a city to which tourists were afraid to go into a world class city once again. He cleaned up Times Square. On 9/11, he demonstrated leadership qualities that a President must have. After the terrorist attacks, he told a Saudi prince that the latter could take his offer of $10 billion and shove it you know where when the prince attached as a condition to accepting the gift an acknowledgment that American policies vis-a-vis Israel were at least in part a cause of the attacks.
Now, he has written a piece in Foreign Affairs where he neatly divorces his view of the Israel/Palestine conundrum from that of the Bush 43 Administration, as discussed in the New York Sun: http://www.nysun.com/article/60514.
I know that a lot of conservatives are appalled by his three marriages and liberal social views, at least some of which don't please me too much either, but there is a bigger picture. In my mind, Islamofascism is the number one, defining issue of our time (though you'd have a hard time telling that from the Democratic Party presidential debates, where Islamic terrorism is at most an afterthought, the recent proclamations of Senator Barack Obama and former Senator John Edwards notwithstanding). I KNOW that as a President, Rudy Giuliani would deal with any Islamofascist threat expeditiously and firmly. Can anyone else say that about the candidates who they support?
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If he hadn't been well marketed afer 9/11 and if he hadn't walked through the aftermath as any Mayor would have, he woudn't even be mentioend as a preseiential candiadate. He has no real credentials. And none on the most important- foreign policy, which is the only real job of the President. Anyone can hire somebody to write a position column.
he told a Saudi prince that the latter could take his offer of $10 billion and shove it you know where when the prince attached as a condition to accepting the gift an acknowledgment that American policies vis-a-vis Israel were at least in part a cause of the attacks.
I thought it was only $10 million and I hadn't heard about the condition. He is definitely a great man for this act. I would prefer a candidate who was more conservative and strong on terrorism. But at the current junction we need someone like Giuliani. I think conservatives should forgive the ending of his first marriage. He was married to a woman who turned out to be his second cousin and he did not have the proper approval from the Catholic Church.
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