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The Club for Growth has released its white paper studying Rudy Giuliani's record on issues of taxation, spending, regulation, school reform, and other issues on which the Club focuses.

Overall, it is a positive assessment...substantially more positive than their review of John McCain. Quoting Club for Growth President Pat Toomey:

Mayor Giuliani's economic record is not perfect, but he deserves credit for the remarkable nature of his accomplishments. In a city long accustomed to high taxes and ballooning budgets, Rudy Giuliani successfully cut taxes; kept spending below the growth of inflation and population; instituted sweeping welfare reform; privatized and deregulated many aspects of the city's bulky bureaucracy; and fought aggressively for school choice.

You can read the detailed report at this link:
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/2007/05/rudy_giulianis_economic_record.php

And, if you go to the Club's main page at
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/, you will see links to their other white papers which at the time of writing this note include Giuliani, McCain, Sam Brownback, and Mike Huckabee.

The Club does not like McCain's overall record, nor are they impressed with Huckabee. They have somewhat better reviews of Brownback, except for his support of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit and his less than stellar record of voting to control government spending.

Overall, of the 4 candidates the Club has analyzed to date, they seem to like Rudy the best.

As my regular readers know, I like Rudy best among currently declared candidates (and I have made a small contribution to his campaign) but I am waiting to see what Fred Thompson does before deciding who I think is the best candidate out there. (Although I generally like Newt Gingrich, I do not think he'll be the best candidate even if he runs even if he is the smartest and most intellectual of the bunch, which he probably is. I simply think he has too much baggage to be confident in beating Hillary, and I want to support someone whom I think is likely to win.)