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[We would win in a landslide.]

And this is where half the people on the thread disagree with the other half.

Some here aren't dreaming of burying the Cindy Sheehans of the world in a crushing 50 state landslide. Instead, they are calculating that the Cindy Sheehans are weakening the left so much that America can push even further to the right and it will be optimal to squeak by with Ohio again.

When I took my MBA, economic theory covered this way of thinking: an idealogue can calculate that, if the Republicans win in 2008 by more than one state...this means that the candidate wasn't conservative *enough*...that they could have won with a tighter margin but a more conservative candidate would then become President.

And that would somehow be worth the handwringing and headaches of watching the neck on neck race with the Democrat candidate for an entire year.

This can be considered logical thinking. It is also the kind of thinking that a Las Vegas gambler has. This kind of person wants a fair fight, a battle of ideologies with pure ideologues up against each other.

A non-gambler (businessman) wants to lock in returns on his investment. He wants to make darned sure that he wins. And one thing he DOESN'T want is any kind of chance that the other side will win or that he or any member of his staff has to spend the summer and fall of 2008 chewing the ends of pencils as opposing candidates run neck on neck while the liberal candidate talks about betraying the country and losing wars.

One thing for sure...if Giuliani becomes the clear favorite among Republicans nationwide, and continues to shine vs Hillary Clinton in polls of the general public...Hillary Clinton and anyone else on the Dem side will have to come to the center in a desperate attempt to head the guy off. The DailyKOS crowd will have zero power. Cindy Sheehan will have had her 15 minutes of fame. The far left will be crushed.