Nope, sorry, CBS, just NOT seeing political “moral equivalency” on this one … With the men and their crimes … or with yours and the rest of the neoPRAVDA coverage of them.

My dream race would be; Edwards/Obama VS. Huckabee/Thompson.

It wouldn’t even be a fair fight, but then if you plan it right it never should be.

Hey never mind Norman Hsu, how about Sandy effing Burglar?

I lived in NY under Rudy. The one thing he has a PHD in is dealing with a mendacious, effete but vicious media.

Girly-boys like Frank Rich and others have been trying to pinch him on the arm for decades. Maureen Dowd leaks acid out of her mouth at night into the sink that is now equal parts hatred of Bush and Rudy.

When they called Rudy a Nazi and a fascist for bitch slapping Al Sharpton, did it change him?

Not at all. Again and again they HOWLED like stuck pigs as he dealt with the chronic liberal insanity that had enveloped NY city. First the squeegee men. Turnstile jumpers. Welfare! My God the Matt Lauers and Barbara Walters screamed for his head on welfare.

Rudy never flinched. He never backed down. He never quit. When he tried to take over the board of ed from the hippies tha had run the public educations system into the mud they all came out full bore gunning with their tv shows, their editorials and their news-stories-as-editorials.

He beat them all. His tenure in NY was a smaller version of what Reagan accomplished nationally.

RUDY DOES NOT FEAR, DOES NOT KOWTOW, DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THE LIBERAL, METROSEXUAL MEDIA.

Rudy may not be the anti-abortion bully pulpit some conservatives want, no one is as politically battle tested.

For those of us who lived in NY during his time, they will attest to the despair we felt for those of us who didn’t live in the Upper West Side buildings with doormen.

Just as Reagan deserves a huge share of the credit for bringing the Soviets to heel and to oblivion, so does Rudy deserve the lion’s share of the credit for turning the quality of life around in NY.

I recommend those who wish to get a view of Rudy’s political sparring matches, to review newspapers like the NY Times, Newsday and the Village Voice to see how liberals in NY HATED HIM.

I mean they HATED Rudy.

Before Bush Derangement Syndrome and Bush=Hitler they were calling Rudy, Mussolini.

Then he just hunkered down and grim-faced them out.

Now he is even better. He smiles. He relishes the battle. He is at peace with himself and clearly has the fight for this battle.

He is ugly as a toad but then again, Hillary is no looker.

But if we all agree that the liberals in the media will do anything they can to help their butt buddies on the left, and that too many “conservatives” will back down when that media manipulates stories then we NEED someone with the political courage to shrug off the weenies who control the vast majority of the medias today.

Rudy proved he is that guy in NY. Ask NYers who lived there then. I had eight “bodegas” within one and a half block from my apartment that were selling crack by the end of Dinkins’ tenure. Within a year of Rudy’s inauguration, they were gone.

Rudy is not afraid of that pansy, Frank Rich.

Unfortunately, too many Republicans are.

Rudy is my man for president.