I have several times injected myself into conversations I overhear on buses, etc. when people are praising RG and claiming he saved the city from crime, etc. I explain the things he didn’t do and can’t claim credit for and yet does. Crime started coming down during David Dinkins administration. Times Square’s clean up actually began in the early 1980s when developers began buying up all the small, one-parcel lots and putting together the larger sized parcels required for large office buildings. It had nothing to do with RG; in either 1980 or 1981 I went on a tour of the area sponsored by the American Institute of Architects, the purpose of which was to explain the planning and work being done by developers to change Times Square.

Because they are the ones who will be voting for him (in that home state decision).

For all that we think of the far-right religionists as caring about bedroom issues, and personal morality, they don’t. Limbaugh, and Gingrich are heroes to them. They may abandon Rev. Haggard, but they rallied round DeLay and stuck by Hyde.

What they do care about is how he acts toward Muslims; and Rudi is all over them. His campaign may self-destruct, but he managed to get elected twice, despite how New Yorkers feel about him, so he has some political chops, and he is more power hungry than Bush; with more brains too. He has some of Cheney’s attitudes, and he wants the White House (as modified by Cheney, Yoo, the Bybee memo and Gonzales).

McCain is dead meat, Brownback isn’t really running, and that leaves Rudi for the base to rally round.