On Giuliani defensive of his misuse of public resources...

It's quite fun watching the media grilling Rudy Giuliani, the 2008 GOP presidential hopeful, in defending why what he did as a New York Mayor was not wrong, and while whatever that might be that was under accusation, someone suggested it and not him.

What he did was the use of public resources (security details) for himself (visiting his girlfriend) and for his girlfriend (using public security for her), and how he tried to obscure and hide those details by accounting tricks (breaking down the billing to various tiny government agencies).

What was conveniently left unsaid, of course, was the fact that she would not have qualified for the protection the misdeeds took place before the affair was made public, thus no death threat at that point. The fact that he's still married man, using public resources to go about his private love affair, is just plain stupid. No doubt he could afford a ride or drive by himself, but he's acting like he's president already.

It's so true that, without 9/11, Giuliani really would have no platform - nothing to run on at all - as a GOP candidate, given his morality and character and family values. And I much doubt if the religious right is going to let a Mormon (Mitt Romney) to win the candidacy, not to mention his flip-flop on various policy positions. The closer the primaries get, the more plausible that GOP really might vote for Mike Huckabee as the GOP candidate. Now, THAT would be quite interesting.