Rudy Giuliani - Marching to Destiny

Yeah, you'd better believe it...this blog is gonna follow our candidate closely as he ascends to the presidency, while exposing the Hillary/Obama cabel as the worthless and weak alternative that they are. But right now, it's all about Mr. Giuliani - let's go to Austin Bay, as he gives us Rudy Rising, on the campaign trail:

Speaking at a fund raiser in Brentwood last night, Rudy Giuliani defined his terms, “I don’t call it ‘The War on Terror,’ I call it ‘The Terrorists War Against Us.’ ”

That line forms the center of Rudy Giuliani’s evolving stump speech. The crowd who had gathered to hear and take the measure of the man reacted with an unrestrained applause had the rowdy feel of a Fourth of July celebration at a Brooklyn fire station.
But we were a continent away from Brooklyn. Last night’s locale for “America’s Mayor” was the elegant marble foyer of Ambassador and Mrs. Rockwell Schnabel’s Brentwood estate...

In introducing Giuliani Ambassador Schnabel cast him as “John Wayne with a soul, a heart, and a conviction….” It was a sentiment that resonated with the assembled. And Giuliani did not disappoint them.

“But we are not a country moving in the wrong direction or sliding down hill. The truth is we are the strongest country on earth, the strongest military power without a rival, the strongest economy on earth. The strongest democracy on earth. You have more freedom than anyone has ever had. No one has ever had more freedom than Americans. This is the greatest country in the world and the greatest country the world has ever known. We must be proud of that. We must solve our problems based on our understanding strengths, not our weaknesses.”

Good stuff, and a great antidote to the negativity oozing out of the pores of every Democrat. Gates of Vienna reprints an article by City Journal’s Steven Malanga, who discusses the New York City mayoral tenure of Giuliani:

In New York, where generations of liberal policy had produced a city in which one in seven citizens lived off government benefits, in which lawbreakers whose actions diminished everyone else’s quality of life were routinely ignored or excused, in which the rights of those who broke the law were often defended vigorously over the rights of those who adhered to it, Giuliani’s prescriptions for an urban revival based on shared civic values seemed unrealistic to some and dangerous to others. The head of the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter described Giuliani’s ideas on respect for authority and the law as “frightening” and “scary.”
But New Yorkers who had watched their city deteriorate were more frightened of life under an outdated and ineffective liberal agenda. Giuliani rode to victory in 1993 with heavy support from the same white ethnic Democratic voters who, nearly a decade earlier, had crossed party lines even in liberal New York to vote for Ronald Reagan

To those of us who observed Giuliani from the beginning, it was astonishing how fully he followed through on his conservative principles once elected, no matter how much he upset elite opinion, no matter how often radical advocates took to the streets in protest, no matter how many veiled (and not so veiled) threats that incendiary figures like Al Sharpton made against him, and no matter how often the New York Times fulminated against his policies. In particular, offended by the notion that people should be treated differently and demand privileges based on the color of their skin, Giuliani was fearless in confronting racial extortionists like Sharpton. Early in his tenure, he startled the city when he refused to meet with Sharpton and other black activists after a confrontation between police and black Muslims at a Harlem mosque. And though activists claimed that Giuliani inflamed racial tensions with such actions, there were no incidents during his tenure comparable with the disgraceful Crown Heights riot under Dinkins, in which the police let blacks terrorize Orthodox Jews for several days in a Brooklyn neighborhood.

And this is why those who dismiss Rudy as a 9/11-type "one-trick pony" are miscalculating on a grand scale. The more people see Rudy, hear Rudy, and learn of his record as mayor of the city that was left virtually ungovernable by his predecessor, the more they will stand behind him. And abortion, gay rights issues, and drag queens will cease to matter as people realize one important fact: The man governs as an ironclad conservative.

America, meet your next President!