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IN POLITICS, YOU CAN'T have everything. But without winning, you don't have anything, nor any prospect of getting any. Support Giuliani loses on the right will be more than offset by votes he can win elsewhere. Importantly, given his strengths in law enforcement, terror response, and welfare reform, those votes will not come from the left. He will not make the Republican Party more liberal. He will make it bigger.

Oh, he's got his faults, but everybody already knows about them. He's been divorced, he's had cancer. He's balding, he wears glasses. He's a monstrous egotist, but with an unerring instinct for the right thing and for high-minded political principles. He's from New York, but he's got the common touch -- as mayor, he ran his own radio talk show and fielded calls from anyone. He lights up a room or a television study. Everybody knows who he is.

If he can apply his rigorous views on law enforcement to illegal immigration -- the huge, unaddressed worry of three quarters of America -- there is no way to keep Giuliani out of the White House.

For the time being, he's doing the very best thing that a truly qualified candidate can do. Let all the hair-plugged, toupeed, or blow-dried wannabes chew each other up (along with the scenery), and stay out of it. There is only one other truly qualified Republican executive who could compete with Rudy, and he's doing the same thing Rudy's doing. His name is Jeb Bush.

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