[ShawTaylor]

I could have done everything that you say Rudy did.


Talk is cheap.
Why didn't you then?
Why didn't you become mayor at a time when crime was making everyone's life hell, and hammer the hoods, the vicious killers and the muggers into the ground?
Anyone "coulda". Its those that actually DID that count.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Why didn't you become mayor at a time when crime was making everyone's life hell, and hammer the hoods, the vicious killers and the muggers into the ground?

Your constitutional right to own a gun ends at the New York City limit... Batman does not exist and Paul Kersey of "Death Wish" ain't real either...

Leadership? Only sheep need leaders...

[George W. Bush]

Why didn't you become mayor at a time when crime was making everyone's life hell, and hammer the hoods, the vicious killers and the muggers into the ground?

We keep hearing this but there are a few inconvenient facts in the way.

However dramatically you (or Rudy) might want to promote his efforts, the truth is that New York was a sewer due to the dereliction of the voters. Since Rudy, by the standards of most the country, it's been upgraded to a stable.

Both crime and abortion rates have fallen across the country, dating from the mid-Nineties. There's no real apparent reason for it and neither party is in any position to take credit for it. It's not clear the pro-life and pro-concealed carry people get a lot of credit either. So unless New York is a particularly evil haven of crime, the crime rate would have fallen there no matter what, just as it did in all those other cities where Our Holy Savior His Rudiness did not reign supreme. The extent to which Rudy made that trend more effective can be debated.