Giuliani touts record as New York mayor

By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff

SALEM, N.H. -- After speaking this afternoon to a packed audience at the small American Legion post, Rudy Guiliani said he still believes "we are going to do well" in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary and his strategy of focusing more on later primary states won't hurt him in the race for the GOP presidential nomination.

"Nobody is going to win all these primaries," he told reporters before heading to another event at the Elk's Lodge in Nashua. "It's who is going to win the most. Right now we are ahead in more states than anyone."

At the American Legion event Guiliani served up a heavy diet of his signature policy proposals, including going on the offense against radical Islamic terrorists, cutting taxes, increasing the size of the military, and shrinking the overall size of the federal government.

In a subtle attack on the candidates of both parties who say they stand for change, Guiliani said "there is change that is good and there is change that is bad."

He then outlined the changes he made as mayor of New York City to make the case he can make the necessary positive changes as president to "lead this country into a brighter future."

His cited as an example how he made "strategic tax cuts" as mayor that resulted in higher revenues by attracting more businesses and creating more jobs.