“Rudy Giuliani was polling very high nationally in December of 2007, but was effectively out of the race after he failed to win IA and NH. Newt has the same kind of personal baggage.”
True, but as Jim Rob pointed out, Rudy didn’t ally “himself with Ronald Reagan to build the Reagan Coalition, the Religious Right, and the Republican majority (together the Reagan Revolution) which directly led the downfall of the Soviet Union, the Contract with America, government reforms, less government, tax cuts, a balanced budget, and the great, long-standing Reagan economy” either, now, did he?
Guiliani was one of Reagan’s top Justice department appointees and, as such, put more Organized Crime figures behind bars than any man in history.