“You have nothing to fear from me,” sounds like a rather low bar for any non-dysfunctional relationship. I won’t be trying it as a pick-up line anytime soon.
That said, Giuliani’s speech seems to have gone over well before an important but not terribly friendly audience. And social conservatives achieved a small victory with Giuliani’s emphatic public declaration that he will veto any Democratic attempts to weaken the Hyde Amendment. On to veto pledges for the Freedom of Choice Act, Hatch-Feinstein, legislation to repeal or weaken Mexico City, etc.
