Giuliani: Best Defense Is Good Offense
Former New York Mayor Focuses White House Campaign on National Security
April 25, 2007 — -- Aboard a bus emblazoned with the state slogan "Live Free or Die," former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani barnstormed New Hampshire Tuesday, preaching the lessons of Sept. 11, and making the case that the best defense is good offense when it comes to issues of national security.
Pressed on only a few occasions in four stops, Giuliani came across as a man comfortable in his own skin, attempting to make history as the first mayor elected directly to the White House from City Hall.
And Giuliani made no secret of how he intends to win: It's all about keeping the country safe and making the pitch that only the right Republican can do so.
Speaking before several hundred students, teachers and members of the community at a town hall meeting at New England College in Henniker, Giuliani fielded audience questions for a little over an hour, sparking the most heated exchange of a long day on the campaign trail.
Marty Capodice, a former Republican from Hopkinton, N.H., questioned Giuliani about how the Bush administration has undercut "just about every personal right" in its pursuit of the war on terror and trampled on the Geneva Convention.
Without pause, Giuliani took Capodice to task, saying he "over exaggerated the case."
