The DraftRudy Blog

Wow! What an election day!  

Tonight it will be one week since Americans from every corner of this great land stepped up and made their voices heard – and, what a sound it was! From New Hampshire to Washington State, Americans came out to vote for freedom and lower taxes and against massive over-reaching government. We voted against the idea that “a little intellectual elite, in a far distant capital, can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.”

 As we hope for Rudy Giuliani to run for Governor of New York in 2010, we must look at his record and ask ourselves if he is really the right man for the job.  Well first we must ask, what is the job?

Today is a sad day -- the eighth anniversary of the day when we were attacked by terrorists and the world changed forever. Although all Americans shared in the tragedy and the burden of September 11th, it was our state and our city that was targeted and it was largely our fellow citizens, our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, friends, and neighbors that lost their lives on that day.

Toward the end of July, Mayor Giuliani said that the opportunity to help New York could definitively pull him into the race, saying "If I thought I could make a real difference in the state, really change things...then I would [run]." He continued, joking, "the only way I could get elected governor is the way I got elected mayor - things have to be so bad…" (http://www.draftrudy.com/news/309). Well, things are as bad as they have ever been.

God Bless America! Truly, we are all blessed to live in this country – free people, protected from the arbitrary force and capricious rule that so many suffer. This past weekend, July 4, we celebrated that freedom. Two-hundred-thirty-three years ago, our founders adopted the Declaration of Independence.

Happy Birthday New York! Well, it’s not actually quite New York’s birthday and it’s not actually quite happy, but with high profile New York birthdays happening over the last few weeks (Gov. Paterson’s on May 20th and Mayor Giuliani’s on May 28th) it seems appropriate to take some time out of our day and ask just what it is we New Yorkers are or should be celebrating.

A new poll is out showing that Unelected Governor David Paterson could pretty much lose the 2010 election to anybody with a pulse.  And, perhaps, even some without.  In general, I don't give polls much weight as far as a measure of reality, which is why I'm not going to get into a numbers analysis here.  But you don't need an official poll to see that New York is, shall we say, nonplussed by the job Paterson has done as acting governor.

I just watched Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie on the Sean Hannity show. Rudy was supporting Chris Christie for Governor of New Jersey later this year, and as a proud New Jerseyan, I was reminded of yet another reason why I'm supporting Rudy and Christie for Governors of New York and New Jersey: Democrats have held power for so long in the Northeast that they've been corrupted by it.

Corruption happens often in politics and it happens in both parties, and it's inexcusable whenever it does happen-- but there's no arguing, it's happening more often and more prevalently among Northeastern Democrats than anywhere else in the country (except possibly Chicago). The reason is obvious: Democrats have held power for so long that they now take it for granted. They see public office not as a responsibility, but as a way to be above the law (Spitzer and Dodd), to tax the masses (Corzine and Paterson), and to gain personally at the expense of the public (Dodd).