The GOP needs Rudy as it's leader like a drowning man needs a shower. As a person, Rudy is marvelous, as a New Yorker he's a hero and a great leader. But he is from the Rockefeller wing of the party, now long discredited and the source of all our current troubles. A blue state strategy is a loser. We have been there and done that. Let's move on.
If Rudy wanted to do the country and the Republican Party a big favor--
he should have run against Hillary for the Senate!!
He could have done the country (and the state of NY) a great deal of good in that role, while remaining true to his 'obvious liberal leanings' as a New York senator.
I don't think that anyone (even here) would have opposed Rudy 'dethrowning' Hillary.
But at a Presidential candidate, he will never get my vote.