Giuliani wasn't some heroic figure who fell from grace though, who he is now is who he has been all along. His entire record as mayor basically centered around telling poor people to fuck off, and by the time 2001 rolled around he was already on his last legs politically, having withdrawn in scandal from the Senate race against Hillary and finishing out his term as a lame duck mayor. Of course, we all know by now that the images of him walking the streets during 9/11 were entirely a result of his own incompetence, and even with this kind of political godsend he never quite managed to make anything out of it, flaming out in the 2008 presidential race and basically just mulling around the fringes of the conservative media sphere ever since. This is a man who has been handed chance after unearned chance to really make his mark on this country and has revealed himself to be an utter failure every single time. Rudy never fell from grace, he has been a piece of shit all along and some of us just have refused to believe it for some reason.