You cannot win a presidential election by running against the other person. If the rational for Rudy boils down to him not being Hillary, he's already lost the general.
my opinion is that our president bush, cheney, rumsfeld, and bremer
lost the iraq war
and they've elected a democrat in 2008.
i live in a conservative area: republican u.s. congress and state assembly. and you no longer see "support our troops" bumper stickers. the mood has turned ugly, and anti-bush.