He will not be president. Nominating Rudy will assure a Democrat win and destroy the Republican Party.
The lesson of the midterms was no one wants Republicans who act like Democrats, and a couple of good people got caught up in that backlash, too.
In the meantime, the Dems shifted to the right with their campaign rhetoric and took the swing vote.
Let's not repeat that in the POTUS election.
Anybody else notice Hillary morphing to the right over the last year? That reinventing stuff can be potent with the DBM beating your drum endlessly, waaay out of proportion for a junior Senator. She will get gobs more free 'face time' to weave a new web of lies for '08--and those who do not remember will buy in. New (young) voters have traditionally been fertile fields for the Democrat plow, and after being heavily manured, generally yield well for them.
Whoever goes up against that will be picked apart if the opportunity presents itself, and the media will orchestrate one, if need be.
Frankly, Rudy would be shredded. He does have a place at the table, so to speak, and can do the party a lot of good, but not as the candidate for POTUS.
Total nonsense.
I doubt it. Unlike Cap'n McQueeg, Rudy has a better understanding of the national GOP base. It's much different going from the mayor of a town that is 80% liberal to an entire nation of voters with a completely different mindset of the world.