Giuliani in '08?

By Aussiegirl

Lawrence Henry has some interesting things to say about supporting a Giuliani presidency. I'm inclined to agree. We need someone who can lead, and who isn't afraid of controversy. One of President Bush's biggest failings has been his unwillingness to engage in any political struggle, and in attempting to appease and please all sides he ends up pleasing no one. The recent nomination of Harriet Miers is just the last in a long list of domestic political battles which the President declined to engage.

The American Spectator

I'm a social conservative. I used to think former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani could never be nominated as the Republican candidate for President, given his pro-choice and pro-gay sympathies. Recent circumstances convince me that not only can Giuliani get the nomination, he will. And that, if nominated, he will win election. The giant karmic wheel of political affairs has turned his direction.

[...]THE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP VACUUM has many conservatives, many Republicans, and many mainstream Americans longing for authority, for someone to step in and run things. Someone to take charge visibly of the day-to-day conduct of the country's affairs. Somebody who will butt heads willingly, even joyously, with obstreperous backstabbers, obstructionists, foot-draggers, and whiners, whether in the opposition party or his own. Someone who will joyfully champion a public fight against waste and inefficiency. Somebody who may be at times conspicuously wrong, but who will, nonetheless, be conspicuous.

It sounds like Rudy Giuliani to me.