Rudy’s policy positions alienate a huge group of Republicans, and his messy personal life alienates many more.
These are solid points of attack by Democrats when the campaign season actually begins.
Rudy will lose.
It is a terrible mistake to put him at the head of the Republican ticket.
The same could be said for McCain.
Huckabee's personal and family lives appear to be clean, but his history of accepting or soliciting gifts and fat consultancy fees while governor stain his integrity, and his mindless class-warfare rhetoric puts him to the left of Hillary.
The half-hearted Fred Thompson is paying the price for waiting to write his term paper until a half hour before the end-of-semester deadline.
Romney's personal, family, and business lives are spotlessly clean and unimpeachably socially and fiscally conservative, but he has been governor of the most liberal state in the union and has raised the distrust and suspicions of many conservatives who like what they hear but don't like who they're hearing it from.
Meanwhile, money is a HUGE problem going into the general election and any Republican candidate will be hard-pressed to match the Democrat candidate, whoever that might be.
Romney and Giuliani have demonstrated the best ability to raise money and grind out the long, hard days and nights on the campaign trail (Romney is benefited by being able to place some of this burden on his enthusiastic and loyal wife and five sons). But both men have problems with positions (Giuliani) or trust (Romney).
It's a mess, alright.
OMG, don't these people ever learn? Mehlman was kicked out of the RNC for engineering the Repub debacle of Nov 2006. That disaster occurred in no small part from Mehlman sending Giuliani across the country to campaign for Repubs.
Conservatives were appalled to see abortion worshipping, gun-grabbing, gay-loving Giuliani hustling votes on THEIR campaign trail........and responsed accordingly.
Course Mehlman's really bright idea was for Rudy to rack up campaign chits of winning candidates that Rudy would cash in as the 2008 candidate. That never happened b/c all the candidates lost, thanks to Ridy.
And let's not forget.........this was BEFORE voters found out Rudy was porkng his mistress on the taxpayers' dime, that he had super-secret global business doings and that Kerik, Rudy's driver, bodyguard, and Police Commissioner (in that order) was a mobbed-up tax evader who lied to the WH.
No question about it. The best way to elect Hillary (even with her high negatives)--is to nominate a LIBERAL that splits and divides the Party wide open--while demoralizing the base. No one does that better than a liberal like Rudy. No one.
Ref. his headache--I bet he got it as he was looking as his latest drop in the polls (as he realizes that he phoney attempt to pretend to be a conservative isn't working and voters are FINALLY starting to realize how LIBERAL he really is)...lol
Might as well get out of the race and profit some more off of 9/11.