I just finished listening to Rudy Giuliani on the Don Imus program and was struck by three things. First, Giuliani is a powerful advocate. He was building the case that the New York Police Commissioner, Bernard Kerik, would make a great Director of Homeland Security. He vigorously presented Kerik’s professional and personal credentials for the job. When he was finished you were convinced that Kerik did everything but leap over tall buildings in a single bound.
He didn’t mention that Kerik also has substantial political credentials for the job. He was a pretty enthusiastic Bush supporter, IIRC.
The second thing that I noticed was that if Giuliani is not running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, he’s doing a very good imitation of it. Very nearly everything he said about Kerik also applied to Giuliani. And he made the tie-ins as well, talking about his own management experience before being elected mayor.
The third thing that occurred to me was that Democrats who believe that the Republican bench is shallow probably should think that over a little.
