The Rudyinskis are liberals. Rudy Giuliani is a liberal. Those of us who have been die-hard conservatives for years are not going to roll over and play dead for a GOP hijacking by New York liberals.
"Die hard conservatives" cannot produce an alternative capable of winning. So they have pretty much isolated themselves and made themselves irrelevant.
In fact, few things are more amusing than watching a name of good, long time conservatives get thrown out as a potential then watch the knives come out as the "conservatives" cut them apart for not being conservative enough.
Everyone sees through this crap.