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Giuliani said Republican presidential candidate John McCain can have being trusted to confront and defeat “anything that terrorists do to us.”

He reminded the Republican National Convention that he’d said in a Republican campaign debate a year agone that had he not been running for president himself, he would get been supporting McCain.

“Well, I’m not, and I do,” he reported in what was to have been a keynote speech but wound up late on the convention agenda.

One by one, Giuliani, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, all losers to McCain in the contest for the Republican nomination, urged delegates to send their former rival to the White House. The also-rans teamed up in a head-on lunge at Obama, questioning his ability to shelter the nation in perilous times and delivering a hard-line adherent call to GOP arms on behalf of the man who ran against them — and beat them — with a engagement to be less partisan.

The three told the convention that McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, his running mate, are the right choice for the future of America and that Obama would have existence the wrong the same.

Giuliani praised Palin as “one of the most successful governors in America — and the most popular.”

She’s been governor for sum of two units years, after eight of the same kind with mayor of tiny Wasilla, still Giuliani said she’s ready conducive to the vice presidency. “She already has again executive experience than the entire Democratic ticket,” he said.

Giuliani reported Obama is a celebrity senator independently of a record of leadership or legislation.

“He’s the least experienced candidate for president of the United States in at least the in conclusion 100 years,” he said to the cheering, chanting assembly. “Nobama, nobama,” came the chants from the prevail over and the galleries. And “Zero, nothing” at the time Giuliani said Obama has no experience.

Giuliani said that is not a personal storm — “it’s a statement of fact. Barack Obama has never led anything. Nothing, Nada …

“The excellent in this election comes down to substance over cast,” he said. “John McCain has been tested. Barack Obama has not.”

With that, Giuliani turned to the placed under that once led Sen. Joe Biden, now the Democratic vice presidential nominee, to say that his sentences as candidate consisted only of a noun, a verb and 9-11. Giuliani came to national note with his personal leadership in New York after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, what one. killed nearly 3,000 people. His work in rallying the city vaulted him into the presidential race.

“There’s one purpose that John McCain understands, Republicans comprehend, that overrides everything else,” Giuliani aforesaid. “John McCain behest keep us on offense against terrorism at hearth and abroad.

“For four days in Denver and for the sake of the past 18 months, Democrats have been afraid to use the words ‘Islamic Terrorism,’” Giuliani said. “… They are in a case of denial about the biggest threat that faces this country.”

He said McCain will audacity that threat and win.

The McCain campaign had announced that Giuliani would be the convention keynote speaker on Tuesday night, but the scroll was shuffled and most of opening day was dropped because of the threat of Hurricane Gustav to the Gulf Coast. Giuliani’s speech was delayed, but he parsimoniously doubled his allotted 15 minutes and set the convention to roaring. When he said that McCain advocates an energy program that would use every approximate, including drilling, they shouted “Drill baby, drill.” He chuckled and repeated the line.

Romney played on Obama’s campaign call for change — excepting not the change the Democrat wants.

“We need make some change in. all right,” the former Massachusetts governor said. “Change from a plentiful Washington to a conservative Washington. We bring forth a prescription for every American who wants make some change in. in Washington — throw out the big government liberals and elect John McCain.”

Romney said Obama “ducked and dodged” when he was asked around the threat of Islamic terrorism. “John McCain collision the talon on the be aimed,” he said. “Radical violent Islam is pernicious, and he will defeat it.

Huckabee, once governor of Arkansas, said that Obama lacks experience and notion in foreign policy.

He said the Obama’s nomination as the first black candidate on a major-party ticket is value celebrating “for the reason that it elevates our country.”

“But the presidency is not a symbolic work at jobs,” he said, “and I don’t believe his preparation or his plans resoluteness lift America up.”