[miss marmelstein]

I love your posts, nopardons. I'm glad someone out there remembers the Rudy years as well I as do (even the awful 5th Ave. pedestrian rules and the Cuomo endorsement!)

Do you remember the caller on his radio show who dared to whine about her convicted murderer son's lengthy prison sentence and Rudy went off on her good - calling her a lousy mother? Oh, how I laughed!)

And how he had such an unmitigated liberal reputation in NYC that his nickname was "Mussolini"??

For the record, I have met Guiliani briefly on at least 3 private occasions. He was always a gentleman while Koch was very high-handed.

[ZULU]

Giuliani got the nickname Mussolini for being an arrogant, pigheaded fascist.

This is the guy who believes in National registration of all guns, and wants a national test to own a firearm.

This is the guy who showed up in a public event dressed in drag, and marched in a gay pride parade.

This is a guy who endorsed Democrats in two gubernatorial elections while ostensibly a Republican mayor.

This is a guy who drove bagel and hotdog vendors out of business to satisfy his buddies who ran upscale restaurants.

This is a guy who pronounced ferrets wild animals and as such illegal to own in New York.

This is a guy who continued the policies of predecessors in refusing to cooperate with INS in apprehending illegal aliens.

Did he clean up Times Square? Sure. But so could have Mussolini, Hitler, or any other autocrat. It qualifies him as a great police chief, not a President.

Before 9-11 he was one of the most unpopular mayors in New York for his high-handed arrogance.

He followed Bill Clinton around like a lapdog - ALL OVER THE COUNTRY - pushing Clinton's anti-Second Amendment "Crime Bill".

Rudy is a phony, an arrogant autocrat, a man in love with himself and a character unfit for National Office.

He's an archetypal RINO.