From today’s New York Sun, authored by another name right-wingers will trust (R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr.):
…one knows a politician by the company he keeps, and Mr. Giuliani has around him the financial people who created the libertarian-conservative Manhattan Institute. …
One also knows a political leader by the action he takes. As mayor, Mr. Giuliani took on the nanny state that city government had become, reducing the dependency that had one in seven New Yorkers living off government support. As for
Then came September 11 and he displayed to the nation the traits he had so successfully displayed in reviving his city. He was decisive, efficient, prudent, and — something only those at his side in
… Mr. Giuliani will be a formidable candidate for the presidency [; s]urely conservatives of all stripes will recognize this. What they need to hear next is where the mayor stands on conservative social issues.
(Note the inclusion of foreign policy credentials, something that Mitt Romney, for instance, sorely lacks.) Indeed it would be a shame if, as Tyrell hints, social issues were the only thing keeping the Republicans from nominating their obvious best shot at retaining the White House next year.
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