Rudy

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.”

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.