The media has annoited the frontrunners solely through name recognition.
But conservatives will start paying attention when it gets closer to the time they will enter the polls.
When conservatives who initially support Rudy are informed of his stances on social issues, many change their minds. That is a harbinger of what will happen to both McVain and Rudy. Romney at least is smart enough to have started running right well before this started, but even that might be enough. After all, who are we supposed to believe? A candidate's words or his record?
You got that right, dirtboy.
Anything the WS prints about Giussolini has a hidden agenda. WS Publisher Billy Kristol is taking orders from his daddy. Daddy Irving Told Billy You Better Hurry Up and Do Something (because 48% of social conservatives reject Giuliani when they learn of his positions on their issues).
Rudy is the linchpin in The Big Plan to takeover the Repub party, and ditch all us pesty social conservatives.
Here's The Plan straight from the horse's mouth, conhead guru Irving Kristol (Fox pundit and WS publisher, Billy Kristol's father, who are avid Rudy backers): "The historical task and political purpose of neoconservatism would seem to be.....to convert the Republican Party and American conservatism in general, against their respective wills, into a new kind of conservative politics suitable to governing a modern democracy."
Oh yeah, Irv, that idea worked really well elsewhere (/sarc). Luckily, professional help for that dictator fixation of his is available. Now the The Kristol Plan to dislodge the conservative power base ignorantly depends on the false assumption that conservatives are going to roll over and play dead.
Ain't gonna happen.