Please, your bias is showing. NJ is a rare state where Rudy would give the Hildabeast a real race and might even win the state if enough of N.Jersey went his way. South Jersey would go with Rudy all the way. This nonsense about a landslide if Rudy wins the nomination for the Dems is just silly and is not politically realistic. You may hate him but he could actually run well in the Northeast, New England, Delaware, Pa. NY, NJ, even MD., ; he is a lapsed Catholic and Md. love those pols. Now if Fred or Mitt were the nominees, all of the East would be lost but one or two NE states and that would be electorally zip for the GOP.
How, pray tell, do you believe Rudy will be remotely competitive with a 3rd party Conservative in the race ? For heaven’s sake, man, Rudy is practically TIED with Hillary in many Republican states in the South (in TN, they are tied exactly, and it is stark — we will lose TN if he is the nominee with a 3rd party Conservative, while Fred will beat Hillary by at least 15%). Nominating a liberal RINO will be a singular fiasco for us at the general election.
Funny, the NJ GOP hasn't had any luck recently with other "electable" RINOs. This last election, they ran Tom Kean Jr., who is a bigger name is NJ politics than Giuliani will ever be (having the name "Tom Kean" on the ballot there is like having the name "Bill Clinton" on the ballot in Arkansas), and despite having the worst RAT opponent ever, he still lost. They defeated evil scary conservative Bret Schundler in the primary to run "electable moderate" Doug Forrest for Governor. He got his butt handed to him too. When Corzine ran for the Senate, the NJ GOP put up "electable moderate" Bob Franks against him. Franks was crushed too.
The NJ GOP hasn't had any luck with electing RINOs since Christie Todd Whitman got in and left the state in shambles (following the same pattern of RINOs in Illinois, California, Ohio, Mass., etc.)
How will Rudy do better than any of the other RINOs? If I was a resident of Jersey I really wouldn't care about Rudy's "leadership" in another state.