[FairOpinion]

Duncan Hunter: Nov. 2006: 2%; Jan 2007: 1%; March 2007: *.

More and more Republicans are realizing that Rudy is the only one who can beat Hillary and he is the leader the country needs during war time.

[FairOpinion]

Rudy surge PING.

[wouldntbprudent]

Duncan Hunter: Nov. 2006: 2%; Jan 2007: 1%; March 2007: *.

Wow.

[Artemis Webb]

I really want Fred Thompson in the race. If he doesn't run then I would consider Rudy as having the best shot at keeping Hillary out of the White House.

[zarf]

Duncan Hines is in kitchen? Where the hell is he?

[CharlesWayneCT]

More and more Republicans are realizing that Rudy is the only one who can beat Hillary and he is the leader the country needs during war time.

Rudy Giuliani Nov 2006 33% Jan 2007 32% March 2007 34%

Hardly. Rudy's unchanged in the last 5 months.

[rockinqsranch]

Hillary must really want Rudy to be her "opponent" in this race. She holds the reins and rides the Opinion Research Corp. pony.

[EternalVigilance]

Enjoy it while you can. This is Rooty at his peak. It's all downhill from here...

[PhilDragoo]

This spike in Rudy's numbers is only due to Karl Rove's sending the six imams to act like hijackers.

When America discovers they were merely randomly selected contestants on the ABC reality series Sudden Jihadi Syndrome, the asterisk candidates will vault into the top tier.

. . .developing. . .

[My2Cents]

What's less than an asterick?

[Pro-Bush]

What about real conservatives? ..these two are liberals by definition.

[Caipirabob]

Rudy's only at 34% and there's no real competition. He's isn't going to make it if a conservative candidate announces. Most conservatives are just waiting for that to happen. If it doesn't, Rudy will have a chance, if he's not completely destroyed by the media.

[soccermom]

I'm sorry to see Romney so far behind. He seems to be the most conservative with a shot at winning the general --- but I can live with Rudy. I'd like to see if Fred Thompson has a shot.

[KevinDavis]

Duncan Hunter: Nov. 2006: 2%; Jan 2007: 1%; March 2007: *.

So much for the Duncan Hunter surge.....

[JamesP81]

I got a question for all the Rudy Giuliani liberals here; something that perhaps you all should consider.

Social conservatives have literally spent an entire generation getting ever more strict constructionist judges appointed to the supreme court. An entire generation. For the first time in 30 years, we are close to having a SCOTUS that could reverse the ridiculous Roe v Wade decision. Keep in mind that social cons have previously and will continue to think for the long term; not the short term. Do any of you really think for even one second that social cons will simply 'shutup and vote for the R' just because he has the R next to his name? Do any of you really believe that? RG has proven that he will nominate liberal judges. He has done so numerous times already while Mayor. Listen very closely: social cons rightly believe that by voting for a man who will appoint liberal judges, it will grant approval for that kind of action. What that means is that the GOP will drift further left and everything the social cons have worked for for over a generation will be for naught. We will throw a liberal R over the side because, frankly, in the short term Hillary Clinton will nominate judges not very much worse than RG would. She would be a little worse than RG in the short term, but in the long term, throwing liberal republicans overboard would force the party to consider it's base, thus preserving some degree of representation for us by one of the parties in Washington. You cannot threaten to undo a generation's worth of work and expect people to vote for you anyway. If the GOP nominates RG for president, they are handing the election to HRC because many social cons cannot in good conscience vote for someone who will endanger a generation's worth of work within the GOP and the Federal courts.

Let's move to another issue. Gun control. No president in recent memory has been able to get elected without significant support in the South. How do you think pro-gun control RG is going to come off in Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, or Virginia when he starts talking about 'reasonable gun control laws'? The NRA has also spent the last 30 years fighting against idiotic and unconstitutional gun laws, and we finally have CC passed in many states. Do you really think the pro-2A folks are going to so blithely vote for an anti-2A candidate?

With liberal / Rockafeller republicans, winning elections is about power, not getting things done. You hear them say this when the argument of their post is 'Only RG can beat HRC' or 'if we want to re-take Congress from the Dems we need moderate folks like RG'. You see it? For these folks, it's not about doing the right thing; it's about retaining the power of the office.

Lib / moderate republicans are right on one thing: RG can bring in a lot of votes from the middle. Unfortunately, this number of votes probably can't offset the number he's going to lose from the base. The only reason most people support him now is becaue they don't really know his positions on issues like abortion and gun control. I'm visiting a friend this weekend that's as conservative as they come and she had *no* idea that RG had such liberal positions. It completely changed her outlook on our current set of candidates and completley soured her on RG. She had no idea he was so liberal. I only hope that most of the rank and file conservative voters learn about him before he gets nominated by the GOP. If they don't, get ready for President Clinton the Second.

[qman]

Sorry more and more conservatives are realizing that McCain is a tired old fool like Bob Dole and don't want to go down that rode again. So the lefties in the republican party and the conservative have know where else to go yet! Lets see where the polls shift when Fred Thompson gets in.

[cartoonistx]