Sticking to his 'guns'

This is precisely why Giuliani is the best Republican candidate there is - sticking to his guns on the issues he believes in, despite the fact that a few placards might go down.

Mitt Romney is flip-flopping on every issue from gun-control to abortion, just to emerge as the "traditional conservative he isn't." (He could run an election against himself - the pro-life Romney who was a hunter all his life vs. the pro-abortion rights Romney who has hunted twice in his life).

And McCain, our erstwhile 'maverick' of the Republican party, is pandering to the likes of Falwell and Robertson and committing public gaffes on his wide-ranging opinions on gay marriage and the Iraq war, the latter being his most ludicrous one so far. You don't call a place that has been bombed half a dozen times in the past year "a safe, bustling place full of hopeful and warmly welcoming Iraqis."

Considering the GOP's next highly-celebrated would-be could-be candidate is a prosecutor-turned-lobbyist-turned-actor-turned-politician, the Gippers will do well to embrace America's mayor, even if he happens to live in the real world the rest of his party seems totally disengaged from.