I fail to understand why Republicans think this kind of rhetoric is going to get any traction with the public. It's red meat for the base but it isn't going to work.

No one could have said it more clearly than George W. Bush during the last election campaign. "If the Democrats win, the terrorists win", he said. The public immediately went out and voted for the Democrats and, presumably, the terrorists. Polls now show the public siding with the Democrats in the war funding/withdrawal timetable dustup.

Americans are fed up with Iraq and they are fed up with Bush. If Giuliani thinks this is a winner, he's stupid. The chest thumping thing worked in 2004 but that's is so over. It's so over that only David Broder still believes it.

Our Government has one purpose and one purpose only and that is to keep our enemies at bay.

That's good unitary executive spoofery, Syzygy.

Of course, I was reading this document that said something about Congress having authority:

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;

To establish post offices and post roads;

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

etc. etc.

Presuming the reporting is accurate, however, it’s a silly and irresponsible thing to say.

Why do think it's irresponsible? Both Bush and Cheney have been making this same argument for years and it worked pretty well for them.

Giuliani said: We need to expect a terrorist attack no matter who is our next President because that is their plan for us.

To stay on the Republican defensive means fewer lives lost in the terrorist war. However, if we hold to the offensive of removing troops bit by bit, leaving fewer and fewer behind, you have chosen death for that group left behind. (my comment here) In other words, the liberals have chosen tyranny for the Iraqi citizen and worse, they present themselves as Americans while doing so.

Giuliani spoke of Freedom from government control for the American citizen. Freedom of choice regarding schooling, social security, health care and the empowerment of those being handed the bread services by the liberals by allowing them to purchase their own homes, choice of vouchers for better education of their children instead of union and government control over district votes.

Our Government has one purpose and one purpose only and that is to keep our enemies at bay. The rest belongs to the states. The liberal congress and senate is not qualified to handle the complexities of a parking ticket.

Syzygy

Now, however, the rest of America is finding out.

True. Then again, he didn't have an Air Force at his disposal.