Being from North Louisiana, I’ve always found it interesting how different New Orleans is from the rest of the state. Traveling north from New Orleans, political views and religious beliefs get a lot more conservative once you get to Baton Rouge.
Maybe this is why Rudy Giuliani has decided to hold a fundraiser in Lafayette in May. Being a frontrunner in the race to become the Republican presidential nominee, Giuliani should find himself among friends in Lafayette. Granted, $300 a plate could buy friends in any city in Louisiana, but in New Orleans, that better be some really good jambalya.
Rudy can stay up there in northern LA. Columnist Jim Sleeper wrote this well: 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.
That’s one of many reasons the autocratic Giuliani shouldn’t be president.