Call Central Casting

I don't get the whole Rudy Giuliani thing. Here's a guy who's built an entire campaign on strutting around the streets of lower Manhattan on 9/11, creating for himself an image of heroic leadership. What the heck did he do, for heaven's sake? There were many heroes that terrible day, and some genuinely fearless leaders, and he was neither. Still, there are a lot of people who see him as their hope for the defeat of terrorism. At the same time, he's on his third wife, his kids won't have anything to do with him, he's "flip-flopped" on the issues of gay rights, gun control, and abortion, and a lot of so-called "family values" types see him as their man. It all makes me think of the story about Jack Warner of Warner Brothers, when first asked what he thought of the idea of Ronald Reagan for governor. "No," he said, "Hank Fonda for governor, Ronnie for the governor's best friend."