Summary
The current Republican field is like a smorgasbord at Denny's - lots of OK choices, but nothing to get the heart racing. That's why the potential candidacy of former Sen. Fred Thompson is creating a palpable stir.
Rudy Giuliani - now riding the crest of a popularity wave - is appealing for many reasons. He is the only candidate who can really be said to have accomplished a political miracle. When he took over as mayor of New York City, the murder rate was sky-high, confiscatory taxes were driving businesses from the city and many considered the place unlivable. Few, including conservatives who hoped for Giuliani's election, believed that New York could actually be improved.See the full content of this document
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Thompson Should Run
There were such inherent weaknesses in New York's polity - a high illegitimacy rate, the erosion of the educational system, intergenerational welfare dependence - that political solu...
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