King Rudy

It seems someone else agrees with me about Giuliani. In this case, it's Jim Sleeper, former political analyst for the New York Daily News:

Yet Giuliani’s methods and motives suggest he couldn’t carry his skills and experience to the White House without damaging this country. Two problems run deeper than the current likely “horse race” liabilities, such as his social views and family history.

The first serious problem is structural and political: A man who fought the inherent limits of his mayoral office as fanatically as Giuliani would construe presidential prerogatives so broadly he’d make George Bush’s notions of “unitary” executive power seem soft.

I know it's hard to believe that anyone could play at being king harder than Bush/Cheney, but I guarantee you that Giuliani can and would. Among other things, he has the competence to actually pull it off. Bush and Cheney have bungled everything.