As most of you know by now, Rudy Giuliani threw his hat in the ring today ^[1], quickly ending the speculation that he was waffling on his run for the Presidency.

Good. As most readers of this site know, I favor Rudy. At least for now. I say “for now” because anything can happen almost two years out from an election, but for me he is a strong favorite. He seems to be the only candidate in either party with the leadership experience and capabilities to handle the global crisis we are now in, a crisis which is highly unlikely to get much better in the immediate future.

And, yes, I tend to agree with him on the social issues (where I am, if anything, more liberal than he is), but that is beside the point. There are no social issues or much of anything else until we defeat the rise of Islamism. I don’t know why anybody in the world would want the responsibility of being President now, but I’m relieved Giuliani wants to take a chance.