So, Rudy Giuliani is back on the campaign trail, stumping for his old friend Michael Bloomberg. And, wouldn't you know it, but if we don't give our mayor a third (and maybe fourth or fifth, who knows?) term, there''s gonna be be some Snake Plissken shit goin' on up in this joint…

Mr. Giuliani did not mention Mr. Bloomberg's Democratic challenger, William C. Thompson Jr., by name. But during the first of two campaign events alongside Mr. Bloomberg, he said that not long ago many parts of the city were gripped by "the fear of going out at night and walking the streets."

"You know exactly what I’m talking about," Mr. Giuliani said at a breakfast sponsored by the Jewish Community Council in Borough Park, Brooklyn. "This city could very easily be taken back in a very different direction — it could very easily be taken back to the way it was with the wrong political leadership."

You know the old saying: You can take the Republican politician out of the cartoonish fear-mongering environment of the 2008 presidential elections, but you can't take the cartoonish fear-mongering environment of the 2008 presidential elections out of the Republican politician.