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The next 45 minutes wander from gushy Ronald Reagan tributes to complicated plans for a 2,000-mile immigrant-repelling border fence to a discourse on the infallibility of the Founding Fathers. Central to it all, though, is Rudy the resolute, the lonely man tough enough to stick selflessly by his convictions, even when they're unpopular, until he's ultimately proved right. And the proof is his glorious success as mayor of the most dangerous, most corrupt, most Democratic city in the land. "Every candidate promises you lots of things," he says. "The most important thing is, can somebody deliver? Can they get something done? Well, here's what I have to offer: I know how to get things done. I did it in the place where it was really hard to do! Nobody, nobody really got anything done in New York about crime, about welfare, about the condition of the streets, about our economy, about bringing jobs to New York! Not only did nobody get anything done for a long time, most people had given up, and they didn't think anything could be done!"

This is a disorienting notion--but the condescending attitude is completely familiar to any New Yorker. The city in the nineties was far from perfect. But were we really living in the hellhole of depravity and despair that Giuliani describes without ever realizing it? And was he the man who single-handedly tamed 8 million misbehaving New Yorkers, delivering us from an economic and physical nightmare? They sure think so out here in the real America: The chants of "Roo-dee! Roo-dee!" are drowning out Giuliani's final words, and women are elbowing one another in pursuit of his autograph.

In Giuliani's speeches the terrorists are coming to get you.  But they're not the only enemy.  The New Yorkers are coming to get you too.  They want to raise your taxes so they can get themselves back on the welfare rolls and lead a life of leisure on your dime.  They want to open the borders so illegal aliens will pour in from every part of the world.  And as strange as this may sound, New York liberals don't understand the importance of national security.  Only Rudy can save us from the terrorists.  Only Rudy can save us from the New Yorkers.

Can you imagine the media frenzy if John Edwards talked about the people of North Carolina with the same level of contempt?