Are you prepared to duck for incoming? LOL! ;-)
I agree.
I think Romney is however Rudy's ability to draw blue is going to offset the whiners in the base.
Pssst! by the way I agree with you! :-)
If I had to bet on it, I'd agree.
I dropped it last year. He is the only one, imo, that can beat a democratic ticket with the way the media controls everything. It will be hard for the media to do to him what they have done to the current administration without tipping their hand to the sheeple.
---"Rudy is our next President."---
Well, it was a nice Constitution while it lasted.
It will be Rudy over Gore, and the one-issue freepers will be crying all the way to the winners box.
The Hillary crash and burn will have republicans smiling for decades. She's the worst public speaker ever, the least likeable, the worst liar, and frankly dumber than rocks when it comes to thinking on her feet and political smarts. Every disastrous decision in Slick's presidency, and there were dozens, lies at her feet.
Edwards and Obama are silky smooth, and they will eat her alive and make her look like the fool she is in debates. Gore's been campaigning for years and owns the lunatic vote, which is now the largest base of the dems. He'll play the comeback kid role, "I'll only run if you really want me", etc. He can get the big money with little difficulty. It will be fun to revisit his buffoonery, and watch his giant ego go down in flames again.
There's a small problem with Rudy.
He is very popular in Red states (which is good, we want to secure our base). He's even more popular in Red states that the conservative candidates for the nomination. I am thinking his strong points that conservatives admire, such as fighting crime and terrorists outweigh his weak points, such as abortion and gay unions.
But, he is almost uniformly popular in Purple and Blue states. This means it's possible that he will landslide to victory and also that he will fall short of victory if he falls a few points in the polls.
In theory, a ticket such as John McCain + Tom Pawlenty gives us a slight edge, in a 50-50 race, in some of the crucial states (IA, MN and WI in the upper Midwest; and AZ, CO, NM and NV in the Rocky Mountain west), that could maybe possibly make the difference in the electoral college.
But, Rudy won't carry his home state except in a blow-out landslide, and might not even be enough help in adjacent Purple States of NJ and PA in a 50-50 race. Rudy might even pull an Al Gore on us, winning the popular vote but losing in the electoral college, especially if he brings forth a strong third-party conservative candidate.
Another thing to consider is whether it even makes sense to campaign in some of the Blue States in which Guiliani is possibly competitive. Consider California. It is an enormous sink-hole for advertizing dollars. A Republican could spend every dollar he is given by the FEC in the general in that state and not spend enough to win. Accordingly, Rudy's popularity out there is useless for the electoral college. California votes are wasted votes, except that it's nice to win in both the electoral college and in the popular vote.
I also wonder about the coattails. G.W. Bush worked really hard in 2002 and in 2004 to develop our majorities in Congress, and - when he was Governor in Texas - did the same thing at the state level. (And, I am sorry this fell apart in '06.) An Eisenhower-type candidate for President might not do anything to help us regain the Congress, even if he were to win in a landslide.
I am hoping that Rudy gets the message across that he's for us, meaning the Republicans, in addition to being for us, meaning the Americans.