GIULIANI AND CHURCHILL

...It'll be much harder for terrorists to hide in a situation like that...

...It was a comforting thought,' In his book, Leadership, Giuliani wrote that when he went back home later that night, he read from Roy Jenkins' biography of Churchill until 4:30 in the morning specificallythe chapters about the Battle of Britain...

...p OLICIES ASIDE, Eric Fettman, an editorialist with the generally pro-Giuliani New York Post, questions Giuliani's temperament...

...Giuliani's views on guns reflect the fact that criminals killed almost 2,000 New Yorkers the year before he arrived, most of them in shootings...

...As he said in the June 16, 1994 Newsday: "If you give the Board of Education more money, you end up with something like the old Soviet Union...

...While he signed domestic partnership legislation, that apparently is where he draws the line...

...Giuliani's new PAC raised $2 million that night, amid the gurgling pool and illuminated orchids that festooned the landmark midtown Manhattan eatery...

...Still, Giuliani scrapped tenure for principals and dumped social promotion, which matriculated pupils even when they could not perform grade-level work...

...Others point to then-U.S...

...Little did Fisher know that on September 11, 2001, New York would become a different type of war zone, and that Giuliani's "bulldog behavior" would be precisely what the city, and the country, needed...

...At the Justice Department, where several top City Hall aides served, these advisors were nicknamed "Yesrudys...

...Giuliani's supporters praise him for many of the same qualities for which Churchill is lionized: courage, strong convictions, an indomitable will, and a "never surrender" attitude...

...Rudy is starting to remind me of Winston Churchill," New York City Council member Ken Fisher of Brooklyn told the New York Observer in March of that year...

...Giuliani riled up the crowd, and twice called Dinkins's policies "bulls...

...As Giuliani contemplates a run for the White House, he may once again look to Churchill, who oscillated between being a conservative and aliberal throughout his political career...

...Giuliani's administrative habits should satisfy conservatives who want a muscular advocate of their philosophy to employ it sedulously...

...While conservatives and libertarians may oppose Giuliani on some issues, they should remember that even Ronald Reagan occasionally found himself at loggerheads with his supporters (e.g., during his 1982 tax hike...

...I am a very strong supporter of full and complete legal rights and protection for everyone, which includes opposing decisions based on sexual preference...

...Attorney Giuliani or24 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 2006 DEROY MURDOCK dering the handcuffing and arrests of Wall Street financiers for alleged securities violations...

...Abortion: People will disagree, but support him," Wynn said, standing among some 300 guests...

...In speeches and interviews during the early 1990s, Giuliani evoked Churchill in his critique of Mayor Dinkins...

...Just as Winston Churchill fell into the wilderness during the 1930s, Giuliani was forced to sit on the sidelines as a feeling of hopelessness engulfed the city under the command of the hapless Mayor David Dinkins...

...At yet another Manhattan Institute event, Giuliani's particularly passionate remarks on education drew strong applause from his June 13 Princeton Club audience...

...Not to be discouraged, mayorelect Giuliani pointed out that "Winston Churchill didn't walk out in the middle of the Battle of Britain and say, "You know, those bombs may really win out in the long run and we may lose to the Nazi.~.'" During his two terms as mayor, Giuliani gained a reputation for cutting crime, fighting corruption, slashing welfare rolls, and standing up to the likes of the ACLU and AI Sharpton...

...It does not include gay marriage as part of that definition...

...He was a great wartime prime minister for New York City but that kind of bulldog behavior comes across in peacetime New York as threatening...

...It now teems with tourists, restaurants, concert venues, broadcast studios for ABC and MTV, and the NASDAQ market site...

...Pro-lifers point with alarm at Giuliani's April 5, 2001, address to the National Abortion Rights Action League's "Champions of Choice" luncheon in New York...

...On February 23, 1997, on the Empire State Building's 102nd-floor Observation Deck, Palestinian Ali Hassan Abu Kamal fatally shot a tourist, wounded six others, and then killed himself...

...Repackaging" might impress stalwart conservatives, as Barry Wynn suggests...

...Theodore Roosevelt, who met a young Churchill during his 1900 lecture tour in the United States, later wrote that Churchill displayed "an inordinate thirst for that cheap form of admiration which is given to notoriety...

...Give people a way to earn citizenship in which they have to demonstrate facility with English, and they have jobs, and they're paying taxes, and they've put themselves in an entirely legal status...

...But Giuliani likely will need all of his persuasive skills to comfort them on this issue...

...While prominent Republicans can give more conservative speeches than Giuliani, one would have to reach back to Ronald Reagan for a leader who has implemented more policies dear to the right...

...After studying his mayoral record, rightists who remain hesitant about Rudy Giuliani should consider the words of one of his City Hall predecessors...

...When he emerged from his own wilderness years and won a close rematch against Dinkins in 1993, Giuliani went to work transforming the city...

...I took strength from how he handled those dark hours with endless optimism," hewrote...

...I know many people argue that keeping and bearing arms is a federally guaranteed right as stated in the Second Amendment of the Constitution," Giuliani told the Citizens Crime Commission that March 6. "But even in the Second Amendment, it refers to firearms in the context of a well regulated militia, and well regulated is what we're trying to accomplish...

...Conservatives weary of camera-shy GOP politicians who barely can weave together three sentences should relish the prospect of Giuliani clearly and candidly promoting his ideas and initiatives...

...He argues against what he calls the House of Representatives' "punitive approach...

...Giuliani, who declined six weeks of repeated requests to speak with TAS, did not respond to these criticisms...

...Boondoggles like Alaska's $220 million "Bridge to Nowhere" would go nowhere with Giuliani in the saddle...

...He continued: "My definition of family is what it is...

...It was a brutal way to treat people who were, after all, innocent until proven guilty-a combination of demagoguery and prosecutorial abuse that does not recommend him for an office whose executive powers have been vastly enhanced under Bush...

...As a Republican who supports a woman's right As mayor, Giuliani repeatedly marched down Fifth Avenue with the Log Cabin Republicans in annual Gay Pride parades and counts gay people among his close friends...

...When he later recounted the day for/~'me magazine, which named him 20ors "Person of the Year" Giuliani said, "I started thinking about Churchill, started thinking that we're going to have to rebuild the spirit ofthe city, and what better example than Churchill and the people of London duringthe Blitz in 1940, who had to keep up their spirit during this sustained bombing...

...He didn't just say that things were worse in Czechoslovakia...

...Nominations for the 2007 Prize may be submitted on the Application Form at www.civilcourageprize.org 5EPTEMBE~ 2006 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 25...

...Four days earlier, Giuliani told listeners on WINS-AM: "The United States Congress needs to pass uniform licensing for everyone carrying a gun...

...He added: "The government shouldn't dictate that choice by making it a crime or making it illegal...

...abortion ratio was 246 per 1,000), its incidence fell during Giuliani's tenure, as it simultaneously did throughout America...

...He understands that culture, more than politics, determines a community's success, and he has devised policies to drive cultural change in a conservative direction...

...Immigration and Terrorism Giuliani sees immigration and terrorism in tandem...

...Thus, his reform potential was limited...

...Deroy Murdock is a columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a senior fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Arlington, Virginia (AtlasUSA.org...

...It's impossible to imagine him leaving his veto pen t holstered for five and a half years, as did President Bush...

...The image of an ash-covered Giuliani, defiantly walking through the rubble of downtown New York, became a symbol of the nation's 22 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 2006 DEROY MURDOCK change dramatically public education in this country is to go to a choice system and break up the monopoly...

...If you agree with me on nine out of 12 issues, vote for me," former Gotham Mayor Ed Koch said...

...one area that I would emphasize.., is choice and vouchers," Giuliani said, warmly embracing the "W" word...

...Back then," Philadelphia lawyer Joseph V. Del Raso jokes at a Giuliani fundraiser, "it would have been called "Mary Poppins," but she would have carried something other than an umbrella...

...The abortion ratio dropped from 890 terminations per 1,000 live births in 1993 to 767 in 2001...

...Giuliani pioneered the use of the mid-day, televised 'perp walk' for white-collar defendants who posed no threat to the community, and many of whom were never even charged with a crime," says Cato Institute Executive Vice President David Boaz...

...Giuliani has been assailed as publicitycrazed ever since his days as prosecutor, when he would parade indicted men before cameras in socalled "perp walks...

...At the Minskoff Theater, Disney's The Lion King thrills morns, dads, and kids...

...Yet, according to official statistics, the number of abortions performed in New York City fell from 110,4,35 in 1993 to 91,792 in 2001...

...Churchill, in his day, was also accused of being a publicity hound...

...He wants tighter U.S...

...Philip Klein is a reporter for The American Spectator...

...At last, Republicans could stop preemptively capitulating to, rather than confronting, Democrats...

...While abortion remains far more widespread in Gotham than across America (2001's U.S...

...Senate's proposal...

...Giuliani regularly materialized at fires, building collapses, and other emergencies at 2:00 and 3:00 in the morning...

...Giuliani had his own weekly call-in radio program and near-daily press conferences...

...Giuliani is a committed insomniac who basically served around the clock as mayor and, literally, took just a few days off, here and there...

...History has made Churchill a conservative icon, even though when he was a Liberal member of Parliament during a budget crisis in 1909, he supported increasing taxes on the rich to help fund social programs...

...There was not much Churchill could do to stop the bombs from falling," Giuliani noted in 1990, "but he talked about making sacrifices for the future...

...The problem was poor leadership...

...He is America's most successful conservative resilience on that day...

...He cites a September 1992 rally where some 10,000 cops angry over Dinkins' law-enforcement positions shouted "No Justice, No Police...

...But at the same time, Giuliani's detractors criticize the former mayor in much the same way that Churchill was criticized...

...Researcher Marco DeSena contributed to this profile...

...Congress must do more to prevent a tragedy like the one that happened at the Empire State Building from ever happening again...

...In the five years since that fateful day, Giuliani has consistently cited Churchill's leadership to demonstrate the need to be vigilant in the fight against terrorism, most prominently in his 2004 speech to the Republican National Convention...

...As a former prosecutor who had never held elective office, he was given little chance of succeeding where, over the course of decades, a parade of New York City mayors had failed...

...Giuliani never lassoed the then-independent Board of Education (though Bloomberg has...

...Americans want a forceful leader in the White House," Fettman wrote March 22, "but not one who looks like he's coming unglued in public...

...Can American conservatives similarly forgive Giuliani for his liberal social views...

...Nonetheless, despite popular assumptions to the contrary, Giuliani opposes gay marriage...

...He also launched a Charter School Fund and openly advocated vouchers, traveling to Milwaukee in May 2001 to embrace its schoolchoice successes...

...Giuliani worked, as well, with John Cardinal O'Connor and Rabbi Morris Sherer in 1996 to make available to underachieving public-school students as many as 2,000 privately funded seats in Catholic and Jewish parochial schools...

...W HY, THEN, DO SOME o n t h e right question Giuliani's appeal west of 12th Avenue and south of Staten Island...

...Giuliani favors the U.S...

...The answer will determine whether Giuliani's last day as mayor was the end of his political career--or, merely, the end of the beginning...

...Everyone down there is a hunter...

...Giuliani worries law-enforcement officers will be so busy handling "a system that's already unenforceable" that they won't "focus on the people that we have to focus on who.., might come here to carry out terrorist acts or to sell drugs or to commit crimes...

...Former South Carolina GOP chairman Barry Wynn discussed these nettlesome issues at the June 13 launch of Solutions America in the posh Four Seasons restaurant...

...Skeptics also accuse Giuliani of insulating himself among an unquestioningly loyal "Band of Brothers...

...Education Giuliani pulls no punches on schools, either...

...He recently edited a book for the Manhattan Institute...

...The only thing that I believe is going to I N THE 1989 New York City mayoral election Rudy Giuliani fared better than any Republican candidate had in nearly 25 years, but he lost by less than 50,000 votes, in one of the closest races in the city's history...

...Both men have been lambasted for being stubborn, short-tempered, and egomaniacal...

...The Trustees of the Northcote Parkinson Fund John Train, Chairman C o n g r a t u l a t e The 2006 C i v i l Courage Prize Honoree Rafael Marques de Morais For steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk during and since the civil war in Angola, and for his support of a humane society...

...As far back as his unsuccessful 1989 mayoral bid, Giuliani told Newsday that he grew up in a Catholic "traditional family...

...More than any one single accomplishment, he proved that New York City was, in fact, governable...

...B EYOND THAT, GIULIANI IS TOUGH AS HELL...

...Gay rights: People will disagree, but support him...

...As mayor, Giuliani repeatedly marched down Fifth Avenue with the Log Cabin Republicans in annual Gay Pride parades and counts gay people among his close friends...

...New York City was not destined to be a cesspool of crime, filth, and corruption, he said...

...borders and high-tech identification for immigrants...

...The real issue in South Carolina is the NIIA...

...to choose, it is particularly an honor to be here...

...But by 2000, the media narrative went, New Yorkers had grown weary of the polarization of the Giuliani era...

...The perfect should not be the enemy of the exceptional...

...The Washington Post dubbed him, "Winston Churchill in a Yankees cap...

...A dozen years ago, it was a gritty, dangerous place, brimming with litter, vagrants, and pornography shops...

...He'll have to repackage his position just a bit on that one...

...Nonetheless, despite popular assumptions to the contrary, Giuliani opposes gay marriage...

...Next door, at the Amsterdam Theater, Mary Poppins opens this fall...

...SEPTEMBER 2006 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 23 READY FOR RUDY currently in office," columnist George Will wrote in October 1998...

...If you agree with me on i2 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist...

...Some were exonerated...

...In an era of a War on Terrorism" he said April 25, "how do we create more security...