In my growing support for Rudy Giuliani, I have a God-centered theory.  It's really quite simple.  When Hillary Clinton first ran for the Jr. senate seat in the state of New York, her principle concern was her opponent was to be America's Mayor.  Instead, Rudy was diagnosed with prostate cancer.  That seemed to have postponed the inevitable rivalry that may culminate in the 2008 presidential race.  He was forced to go away to fight on a more important day....With that in mind, I decided to go find out who Rudy's vocal opponents might be...and came up with an interesting one here.

"On that horrid day in September, Giuliani was trapped in a corridor in one of the World Trade Center buildings and was almost a casualty. This close brush with death energized him, propelling him tirelessly from every newly discovered horror to the next. Rudy was everywhere. The media, impressed, anointed him the icon of the disaster: the brash, bona fide New Yorker with his bona fide New York accent became a stand-in symbol for the city’s courage and resolution.

The shell-shocked Gothamites were easy to persuade. Here was an untested, verbally bumbling president in the White House and a fast-talking New Yorker, both doing terrific jobs, weren’t they? With each passing day, the mythology fed upon itself, and King Rudy reigned supreme.

Actually, Rudy Giuliani doesn’t represent the spirit of New York City. Sanctified by the media, the only thing Giuliani represents is the government itself. To listen to the media, one would think that the only casualty of September 11 was the government. Giuliani filled the role of a functionary who roamed from one funeral to the next, a sort of toastmaster general helping bury New York’s uniformed dignitaries.

It was a top-down event. The mayor represented the upper echelons of the city’s apparatus, with an occasional moment of grieving for the hardworking, tragic victims from the real world of commerce.

Politically, Giuliani is like the horror film monster who refuses to stay dead. His prostate surgery forced him to drop out of the much anticipated senate race against Hillary. Pundits have little doubt, however, that Rudy would have fared no better against La Clinton than poor Lazio. (Clinton garnered 55% to Lazio’s 44%.)"

So who are these folks?  Who does this guy represent?  If you can find a non-racist, non-Jew hater in this group, please point them out to me.  My gut tells me, "with enemies like this, this guy's gotta be a good guy!" 

As my friend Tom pointed out to me, Giuliani is going to have a very tough row to hoe to convince conservatives that he's the candidate they should trust.  I too, have my reservations, but then my own history is not without blemish or ex's, so maybe that is why I am willing to overlook the pecadilloes.  I am favoring, instead, our national security and an assurance that the Clintons will not be back in the White House to put us back into harm's way again.