I have. He was a Republican in DoJ long before he ran a mayor, so your statement is simply false. He would have been (and still may be!) a great conservative president. But pseudo-cons gave us BHO...
Many Freepers left or were banned for arguing that very misconception.
Just as Specter or Snowe are not conservatives, so Rudy is not.
You are either fooling yourself and in denial, or your definition of “conservative” is incorrect.
He’s never going to be President, and will never run again. More than likely he’ll run for Governor of NY next year. But I’ll add if you think he could’ve won the election over the False Messiah, you’re crazy. No credible poll showed him winning any state that McCain didn’t carry (in other words, he wouldn’t have carried a SINGLE state in the Northeast, let alone made any inroads elsewhere, and probably would’ve lost even more states).
A liberal Republican, and fairly open one at that, would’ve been a monumental and visceral turnoff to the Conservative base nationwide. He could’ve made promises galore and it wouldn’t have mattered. A pro-abort Catholic, pro illegals squish, thrice-married ? Yeah, that’d be about as popular with the GOP base as Jesse Helms in Harlem.