No serious candidate, Democrat or Republican, is going to run on a pro-gun control platform, period.
"No serious candidate, Democrat or Republican, is going to run on a pro-gun control platform, period."
It's what they run on, but what they do once they're elected. I still shake my head in wonder about Bush-41 and "read my lips..."
McCain or Giuliani may not run on a pro-gun control platform, but their previous record on that issue will follow them around like a dog after a bitch in heat. Giluiani's record on that issue in NYC is as bad as Hillary's or any other Democrat's, and McCain showed his true anti-gun colors right after the Columbine shooting. Add Giuliani's NYC position on 2nd A issues to his outspoken support for abortion and homosexual "rights", and he would lose every state south of the Mason Dixon line and most of the interior western states to boot.
As for the Democrat nominee he or she would have to denounce the party platform's position in order to appear to be against more gun control laws, and even then that wouldn't fool anybody who hasn't lived in a cave in Borneo for the last 50 years.
Which is why I don't understand the hyperventilating over Rudy and Romney when it comes to guns. The 2nd Amendment survived the Clinton years. I'm sure it'll survive a Rudy or Romney presidency.